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引用第10楼laputa于2006-11-08 09:17发表的:
If You Love, Love Openly

Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.

Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.
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we always assume monks like nuns,and the story just proves it............hehe.......

So we learn from it .....if you really love someone....you should muster up the courage to express it....even in public.......even against regulations...cause monks are not allowed to have girlfriends........hehe ......

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引用第11楼laputa于2006-11-10 22:11发表的:
No Loving - Kindness


There was an old woman in China who had supported a monk for over twenty years. She had built a little hut for him and fed him while he was meditating. Finally she wondered just what progress he had made in all this time.

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so this story just want to tell us that we should feel grateful and appriciation toward other's kindness..or want to convey something more deep.....

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引用第19楼laputa于2006-11-14 19:52发表的:


I don't understand this story..

O-nami is a good wrester.but he was afraid of wrestling with others in public. so after he was huminiated in public again , he went to a zen master for help. The master told him to imagine himself as waves. so O-nami followed the master's instruction and thought for a whole night. He felt the power of the billow, it can destroy anything. So meanwhile, he realized that his power is infinite. He was a talented wrestler. And he shouldn't have been worried about wrestling in public. He realized his potential. so after that he won many contests....

Shut yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain. Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain true realization."

wow.....that's why recluses are very intelligent and full of wisdom..

what a good-hearted guy..........but he was misunderstood.....