Ways to Teach and Impress

Many Zen pupils were studing meditation under the Zen master Sengai. One of them used to arise at night, climb over the temple wall, and go to town on a pleasure jaunt. 

Sengai, inspecting the dormitory quarters, found this pupil missing one night and also discovered the high stool he had used to scale the well. Sengai removed the stool and stood there in its place.

When the wanderer returned, not knowing that Sengai was the stool, he put his feet on the master's head and jumped down into the grounds. Discovering what he had done, he was aghast.

Sengai said: "It is very chilly in the early morning. Do be careful not to catch cold yourself."

The pupil never went out at night again.

To remember and recall "unpleasant" past is a self-inflicted injury. Avoid it

To remember and recall "unpleasant" past is a self-inflicted injury. Avoid it 

Too Little Too Much Too Bad

Half the people miss the fruit for lack of energy in shaking the tree; while other half sacrifice next season's crop

by shaking so hard that they topple the tree.

A Buddhist Story: If You Love, Love Openly

Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.

Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.

Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose. Addressing the one who had written her, she said: "If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now."

Wise Traveller

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going. A perfect traveler is one who doesn't know where he came from.

Inspiring Individuals: JULIO IGLESIAS

Julio Iglesias was professional soccer (goalkeeper for the Real Madrid soccer team)  player in Madrid when a car crash ended his career and left him paralysed for a year and a half. A sympathetic nurse gave Julio Iglesias  a guitar to help pass the time in the hospital. Though he had no prior musical aspirations, Iglesias went on to become a huge success in the pop-music field.

Iglesias's accident marked a water shed in his life, turning point after which everything changed. A  watershed can come in the form of an illness, an accident or a random encounter; it can be any event positive or negative that significantly affects the course of person's life.

Fortune found in "Float"

In 1879, Procter & Gamble (P&G)'s best seller was candles. But the company was in trouble. Thomas Alva Edison had invented the light bulb, and it looked as if candles would become obsolete. However, at this time, 

it seemed that destiny played a dramatic part, in pulling struggling company from the brink. A forgetful employee at a small factor forgot to turn off his machine when he went to luch. The result?. A forthing mass of leather filled with air bubbles. He almost threw the stuff away but instead decided to make it into soap. The soap floated. Thus, Ivory soap was born and became mainstay of the P & G company.

Why was soap that floats such a hot item at that time? In Cincinnati, during that period, some people bathed in the Ohio River. Float soap would never sink and consequently never got lost. So Ivory soap became a best seller in Ohio and eventually across the world

Like P & G, never give up when things go wrong or when seemingly unsurmountable problem arise. Creativity put to work can change a problem and turn it into gold mine.

You Really Don't Exist

Master and Pupil Says the Master to his pupil: “Do you understand that you don’t really exist?” 

Upon which the pupil replies: “Whom are you telling that?”

Wonder why I Wander?

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

Leading by evolving example and Preaching by Practice are inherently better than Teaching by outdated experience

Leading by evolving example and Preaching by Practice are inherently better than Teaching by outdated experience

Leading by evolving example is better for simple reason they are much recent and fresher. Since it is an evolving in nature they are organic and others can observe and understand them. Preaching by practice is also has the same merit

But teaching by experience is bit risky. As you may observe all experienced people are 'conservative' in nature and approach. In fact one of the effects of experience is that it makes person "cautious". I have even noticed that once a bold entrepreneur also becomes unreasonably conservative in guiding or investing in a new budding enterpreneur 

Proverbs and Tools

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Whatever is true with proverb is also true with tools. No tool is tool unless you have occasion to use. Mere quoting a proverb or just mentioning a tool is not sufficient.

So start living proverbs and utilizing tools.