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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

87. Three Kinds of Disciples

A Zen master named Gettan lived in the latter part of the Tokugawa era. He used to say: ' There are three kinds of disciples: those who impart Zen to others, those who maintain the temples and shrines, and then there are the rice bags and the clothes-hangers.'

Gasan expressed the same idea. When he was studying under Tekisui, his teacher was very severe. Sometimes he even beat him. Other pupils would not stand this kind of teaching and quit.

Gasan remained saying: 'A poor disciple utilizes a teacher's influence. A fair disciple admires a teacher's kindness. A good disciple grows strong under a teacher's discipline.'


88. How to Write a Chinese Poem

A well-known Japanese poet was asked how to compose a Chinese poem. The usual Chinese poem is four lines,' he explained. The first line contains the initial phrase; the second line, the continuation of that phase; the third line turns
from this subject and begins a new one; and the fourth line brings the first three lines together.

A popular Japanese song illustrates this:
‘Two daughters of a silk merchant live in Kyoto,
The elder is twenty, the younger, eighteen.
A soldier may kill with his sword,
But these girls slay men with their eyes.'


89. Zen Dialogue

Zen teachers train their young pupils to express themselves. Two Zen temples; each had a child protégé. One child going to obtain vegetables each morning would meet the other on the way.

'Where are you going?' asked the one.
'I am going wherever my feet go.' the other responded.
This reply puzzled the first child who went to his teacher for help.

‘Tomorrow morning,' the teacher told him, 'when you meet that little fellow, ask him the same question. He will give you the same answer, and then you ask him: "Suppose have no feet, then where are you going!" That will fix him.'

The children met again the following morning. 'Where are you going?' asked the first child. ‘I am going wherever the wind blows,' answered the other.

This again nonplussed the youngster, who took his defeat to his teacher.
'Ask him where he is going if there is no wind,' suggested the teacher.

The next day the children met a third time.
'Where are you going?' asked the first child.
‘I am going to market to buy vegetables,' the other replied.