Sep
19
A Zen Master walks into a casino ...
Submitted by alvin on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 00:58
Back to reading the book "Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake", and it contains a great short story where Zen Master Seung Sahn (ZMSS) and his hippy students are traveling the country in the early 1970s, and they spend one night in Las Vegas. In the wee hours of the morning ZMSS wakes up all his students, drags them into a casino, and says:
"Do you see these people? They are all trapped in hell ... the hell of their own desires."
Mar
17
On getting something you always wanted
Submitted by alvin on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 17:00
Last night I watched a re-run of the tv show Becker, and it was an episode where Jaclyn Smith played an old flame of the lead character, Dr. John Becker. Back in college, some 20 or 30 years ago, he thought they were meant to be together for life, but then she went off and married another man.
