Buddha Story

Anger Management Story: Angry Buddha

Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows how anger dissipates not from paying it lip service, but by mindfulness of it.

"See, I can't even see what is so obvious to you. I am like these coffee beans soiling whatever they touch and completely useless thereafter."

"Wish I were more like these other two, still holding their own after all their troubles."

"Time passed slowly and the expectation that he was finally going to eat made his stomach growl with eager anguish."

"Geshe Ben was so hungry that he found it difficult to wait. His eyes kept returning to the jar of food within his reach."

"I want Happiness," a man had once asked Buddha.

Watching Nainital from China Peak, Rosh remembers Buddha, and receives secrets of peace and happiness.

"Let Buddh help you reach that ultimate point. Then certainly, if you meet him there, kill him. You will be truly free."

"Then why are Zen masters," asked Josh, "who teach their disciples to kill the Buddh on the way, still clinging on to Buddh themselves?"

“Will you leave us to beg on the streets?” Isha turned her face away in anguish, “while you illuminate the world. Why must Yashodharā always pay the price of Siddharth’s enlightenment?”

Her world was falling apart, and she with it. Rosh felt pity. He knew how hard it was going to be for her.

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In a world where managers are obsessed with pleasing shareholders, Inamori, entrepreneur, management guru and Zen Buddhist priest, focuses instead on making his staff happy.

A variety of new stories in the pipeline.

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Discover some pointers in this old Buddhist story or this Sufi song...

On seeing Nakagawa bow before the human image, Phillips couldn't contain himself.

"The old Chinese masters spit on Buddha statues or burnt them down!" he said.

"Why do you bow down before them?"