Awakening Stories

A farmer worked his crops for many years.  One day his horse ran away.  Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they expressed sympathetically.  “Maybe,”...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance. chaos into order, confusion into clarity… It turns problems into...

Soon after her brother was born, little Sachi began to ask her parents to leave her alone with the new baby. They worried that like most four-year-olds, she might feel...

Two men visit a Zen Master. The first man says, “I’m thinking of moving to this village.  What is it like? The Zen Master Asks, “What was your old town...

A little boy discovered a cocoon of a butterfly one day as a small opening appeared. He sat mesmerized and watched the cocoon and the emerging butterfly for several hours....

There are those of us who are prisoners of the future. We don’t know what will happen, and we worry so much that the future becomes a kind of prison....

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile spring soil. The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust above...

  The Buddha once told a story about a young man who was a trader and had a beautiful wife and baby son. Sadly, his wife fell ill and died,...