Month: July 2001

I had heard a Zen story..

Two monks were travelling from one monastery to another.. They were celibate monks, even not allowed a direct gaze at women. After long walk, they came to a river, which they had to cross. The river was flooded and there was no way that they would
get across without getting wet. One lady was also at the banks of river, wanting to cross..

Monks decided to cross the river by walking thorough the shallow part of the river, Since the lady also needed to get on the other bank, one of the monk without much ado, carried her on his shoulders, and soon they reached the other bank, where he set her down.. The lady went her way and the two monks continued their walk in silence. The other monk was really upset, finding the other monks act disturbing. As per their injunctions, they were not allowed to look at the woman, forget touching and the other monk carried her across the river!!

After some time the confused monk couldn?t stand the thought and asked other monk? “We are not allowed to look at other women, not touch them.. but you carried a woman across the river?!” The other monk had a smile on his lips when he replied “I put her down when I crossed the river, are you still carrying her?!”

ps:after writing this I was searching for an image of Buddhist monks, and came across a site with this story in a better way and many more stories..[Link]

A cryptic story

Here’s a story which I had heard..

One traveller was walking through a country side and he was tired due to the hot sun blazing over his head and decided to rest under a tree. He didnt realize that the tree under which he took shelter was a magic tree.. As soon as he sat under the tree, he wished if there was a cool breeze, and soon the breeze began.. the cool breeze came and took his tiredness away..

Our traveller was happy, and was thinking about food now. He wished, if only he had some delicacies to satisfy his appettite, then he would be the most happy man, and soon delicacies appeared before him. He didnt think much about how it happened as he was hungry, and started having the delicious food, the taste of which was rare.. After satisfying his hunger pangs, he relaxed below the tree and just thought, if only he had a cozy cot below the tree, so that he could have a good nak, and soon the cot also appeared..

Now our traveller was smelling something fishy.. he found that whatever he was thinking/wishing was being granted.. and he wished that if there were two beautiful damsels to fan him, there would be nothing like it., and so was it, two damsels appeared out of thin air and started fanning him…

While was resting in the bed, he started worrying about the happenings so far.. he thought that this might be due to some devils in the tree and if he stays for long there, they will come out of tree and kill him.. and as his thoughts so was it to be.. devils came out of tree and killed him.. end of story!!

Note: As per Indian philosophy, Human body is equivalent to an upside down tree, and our thoughts are manifested for us..by the magic tree of mind(thats the secret of this story)!!

ps:did the story make sense to you?!

So my one year begins today..

From today onwards, my planetary positions are unfavourable for one year!!

Hee..I was supposed to go on on a 40 mile bike ride today. I was to be picked up from petrol station and they missed me.. the beginning??

Yesterday I spend quietly, watching two malayalam movies, waiting for my partner to get connected to the messenger and sleeping.. You should give laziness a chance once a while..

Today after missing my lift for the 40 mile bike ride, I came back, cleaned my room, cleaned my car, de-odourised it.. took it for a machine wash, changed oil.. and updated the backlog of the live journal..

What else today.. sabudana khichri for dinner, Erin Brockovich – the movie, some reply to my mails(my replies are always late!), planning to change my mail id from netaddress to yahoo..

Has a lot of things in mind to do.. but still its in mind.. thats it.. Another weekend gone..