PARABLES OF A ZEN MASTER NEXT DOOR
28 February 2009
Today we are accustomed to a busy and hectic life balancing family, job and pleasures. Our spiritual life may be overlooked or may be wedged in with little thought. These parables remind us to think about what we find important. Comfortable and non-threatening, each story takes on meaning regardless of our own faith tradition.
Today’s readers hunger for messages that connect them with their spirit. With a hint of “tongue in cheek” these stories hearten the reader to stop, listen and capture the sacred in the ordinary.
By taking a secular approach but including an array of tenets and mores common in most religions and belief systems, these parables show humankind’s commonalities. Our collective humanity, or wisdom, teaches us like any priest, rabbi, preacher or Zen master. For that matter, our neighbor next door.
These stories remind us that we live now–not yesterday and not tomorrow. The past is merely a distorted memory while tomorrow is a fantasy. We get lost in both false worlds. We can only take care of our “now” and as we do so, we secure our future and come closer to our Creator.
Experiences shape us and if we listen we learn and we understand. We pass understanding to others by our actions–our stories. Stories have been told for thousands of years. In stories we find truth. We need only to listen to the yarn within us and therein lies the potential to live an inspired life.
These parables are gentle but strong. They embrace but let go. They are simple and complex just like our own lives.
They are, of course, parables.
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