ZEN Humor stories and Spirituality

[regnauld]

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ZEN Spirituality has fascinated me in realizing the everyday truths about life in general!

DRUNK

Japanese Zen master Sesso warned, “There is little to choose between a man lying in the ditch heavily drunk on rice liquor, and a man heavily drunk on his own ‘enlightenment’!”

PURE NOTHING

The first Patriarch of this "meditation" school of Buddhism (Chinese: Ch'an; Japanese: Zen, from the Indian Sanskrit word Dhyana), was Bodhidharma. He came from southern India to southern China in 527 CE and soon visited Emperor Wu-ti, founder of the Liang dynasty at Nanking and one of Buddhism’s greatest all-time patrons in China.
Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma about the highest meaning of noble Truth, and Bodhidharma replied, “Vast emptiness, there is no noble Truth.” “Who, then, is standing before me?” “I don’t know,” said Bodhidharma. Emperor Wu then asked the enigmatic Indian sage how much karmic merit he, the emperor, had accumulated by building monasteries, ordaining monks, sponsoring translations and copies of scriptures and making Buddhist art-images. Bodhidharma was quite blunt: “No merit whatever!” And he left the region.

[miyay]

hahaha..astig! i hope Bodhidharma left the region really, really fast

[SEED OF LIBER]

up for this

[bungot25]

our priest says buddhism is just pure philosophy.. ...lol

[Malic]

ZEN Spirituality has fascinated me in realizing the everyday truths about life in general!

DRUNK

Japanese Zen master Sesso warned, “There is little to choose between a man lying in the ditch heavily drunk on rice liquor, and a man heavily drunk on his own ‘enlightenment’!”

PURE NOTHING

The first Patriarch of this "meditation" school of Buddhism (Chinese: Ch'an; Japanese: Zen, from the Indian Sanskrit word Dhyana), was Bodhidharma. He came from southern India to southern China in 527 CE and soon visited Emperor Wu-ti, founder of the Liang dynasty at Nanking and one of Buddhism’s greatest all-time patrons in China.
Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma about the highest meaning of noble Truth, and Bodhidharma replied, “Vast emptiness, there is no noble Truth.” “Who, then, is standing before me?” “I don’t know,” said Bodhidharma. Emperor Wu then asked the enigmatic Indian sage how much karmic merit he, the emperor, had accumulated by building monasteries, ordaining monks, sponsoring translations and copies of scriptures and making Buddhist art-images. Bodhidharma was quite blunt: “No merit whatever!” And he left the region.

nice one reg. Maka imagine ko sa nawong sa emperor.

[akimz]

payter hehhehe mabuhay ka reg

[Malic]

Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness. For he will always be happy.

~ Chade Meng ~

[Malic]

Disciple: Oh wise and all knowing one, show me the place of perfect peace.

Master: If I show it to you,
it will no longer be peaceful

[Malic]

Q: What did one Zen practitioner give to another for his/her birthday?
A: Nothing.

Q: What did the birthday boy/girl respond in return?
A: You are thoughtless for giving me this meaningless gift.

To which the giver replied, "Thank you."

LOLz!

[sanggano_boy]

It's common to all belief system of making oneself fell better, which focuses the physical benefit. But in Christianity aside what's common, it reveals the true condition of our spiritual being and God promised a cure for it.

Jesus has the only power to cure it!

Jesus saves while others not!