Zen Story: Without Fear

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality.

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Scott Morrison: Nothing Else Matters

Stop dead in your tracks.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Crying Fight

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky. It was first published by Pocket Books on February 1, 1999.

(pdf here)

Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.

Zen Story: Worry

 Death was walking toward a city one morning. 

A man asked, “What are you going to do there?”  

Nirvana: On a Roller Coaster

This girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes. I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. - Stephen Wright

Scott Morrison: Intimate with All Things

It seems like just about every evening
here in Satsang, somebody cries.

Sometimes, everybody cries. 
Everyone wants to come home. 

The Zen of Alice in Wonderland

Caterpillar: Who… are… you? 
Alice: Why, I hardly know, sir. 
I’ve changed so much since this morning, you see. 

Zen Story: Banishing a Ghost

 

The wife of a man became very sick. On her deathbed, she said to him, 

'I love you so much! I don’t want to leave you, and I don’t want you to betray me. Promise that you will not see any other women once I die, or I will come back to haunt you.

Question for Scott Morrison: Long Retreat

 August 4, 2007

Dear Scott, 

I’ve been busy the past few weeks looking for a house that I’d planned to buy and live in with my girlfriend. But it all fell apart last weekend when I decided that the house was just one more thing that wouldn’t make me happy and I’d have to put off a long retreat even further.  

Catcher in the Rye: Sensitive Ernie

The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J.D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951. The novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon of teenage rebellion. Catcher in the Rye pdf