This is a story about Bau Sin Tao. One day he was sitting in the marketplace, with his disciples, and friends, and family all around. And a woman comes up to him. She says, “Bau Sin. Years ago your master gave my mother a blessing and right after that she became pregnant with me and …
Feb 17 2023: The Fertility Blessing
Published: Fri, 02/17/23
Zen says Don’t Be Confused
Zen is simply saying that you don’t have to be so confused. You can live your life in a simple way. In our story this week, about the Fertility Miracle, a woman comes and she wants to get a miracle, because she is infertile. Her mother had come to this spiritual master’s teacher and she …
Stories and Myths
Human beings have been in a mental crisis for only a very short period of time. We’ve been around as just-about completely human for millions of years. For 80,000 years we’ve been completely “DNA Us” with brains working exactly the way that our brains work today. For most of that long, long time the way …
You Can Change Your Mind
You are not your mind because you can change your mind. Just like you can change a tire on your car. You can change your mind. Well, hopefully you can.
Rules for the Enlightenment Teacher
Rules We have so many rules about what we want an enlightenment teacher to look like. What we want a spiritual teacher of any kind to look like. And there’s lots of problems involved with that. Number one, first and foremost is that you are going to miss the true teacher. Because as we’ve been …
Your Mind is Just a Tool
You are not your mind, because you can use your mind as a tool. Like think of something that is red. Then think of something that’s blue. You are the one that used the tool to do those different things.
