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Osho Zen Stories

1. Drop all 'isms'
2. Mind of a Sage
3. Judging a saint
4. The Fake Monk
5. Rinzai's Answer
6. Mystic Rengetsu
7. Zen Master Sekito
8. Zen Sage & Thief
9. Zen Master in Jail
10. Buddha’s message
     
11. The Game of Chess
12. Innocence is Divine
13. Master's Compassion
14. Knowledge is Trouble
15. Respond with awareness
16. Tetsugen 3 set of sutras
17. You are already a Buddha
18. Sound of one Hand Clapping
19. Master waits 4 right Moment

Paul Reps 101 Zen Stories

1. Stories 1 - 2
2. Stories 3 - 4
3. Stories 5 - 7
4. Stories 8-9
5. Stories 10
6. Stories 11
7. Stories 12-14
8. Stories 15-16
9. Stories 17-18
    
10. Stories 19 - 21
11. Stories 22 - 24
12. Stories 25 - 27
13. Stories 28 - 32
14. Stories 33 - 36
15. Stories 37 - 38
16. Stories 39 - 41
17. Stories 42 - 44
18. Stories 45 - 46
     
19. Stories 47 - 48
20. Stories 49 - 50
21. Stories 51 - 53
22. Stories 54 - 56
23. Stories 57 - 59
24. Stories 60 - 61
25. Stories 62 - 64
26. Stories 65 - 66
27. Stories 67 - 68
     
28. Stories 69 - 72
29. Stories 73 - 75
30. Stories 76 - 78
31. Stories 79 - 82
32. Stories 83 - 86
33. Stories 87 - 89
34. Stories 90 - 91
35. Stories 92 - 94
36. Stories 95 - 97
37. Stories 98 -101

5. 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. Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose.Addressing the one who had written her, she said: 'If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now.’


6. 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. To find out, she obtained the help of a girl rich in desire. 'Go and embrace him,' she told her;' and then ask him suddenly: "What now?"

The girl called upon the monk and without much ado caressed him, asking him what he was going to do about it.
'An old tree grows on a cold rock in winter,' replied the monk somewhat poetically. ‘Nowhere is there any warmth.'

The girl returned and related what he had said. ‘To think I fed that fellow for twenty years!’ exclaimed the old woman in anger.' He showed no consideration for your need, no disposition to explain your condition. He need not have responded to passion, but at last he should have evidenced some compassion.'
She at once went to the hut of the monk and burned it down.


7. Announcement

Tanzan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away.

The cards read:
I am departing from this world.
This is my last announcement.
Tanzan
27 July 1892