Zen Stories
Who Tied You Up
This morning, while wiping my mala beads, a phrase suddenly surfaced in my mind. "Who tied you up?" Four words. Strange to say, but they floated up fr
6/3/20266 min
Writings
What Ru Shi Writes
Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.
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Buddhist Notes
The Man Who Was Always Laughing: The Story of Budai Monk
Behind that chubby, big-bellied, grinning Buddha at the temple entrance, there was a real person — a monk who carried a cloth bag and spent his life smiling. This is his story.
6/2/202610 min
Zen Stories
Su Dongpo and Foyin: Eight Winds Cannot Move Me, One Fart Crosses the River
Su Dongpo thought he was enlightened and wrote a poem declaring "the eight winds cannot move me." Foyin replied with two words: "Bullshit." He immediately crossed the river to confront his friend. This ancient story feels like it's about me.
6/1/20268 min
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What I See
Cultural Confidence: Contemporary Life Through Eastern Aesthetics
Cultural confidence is not blind pride but deep understanding and identification with one's own culture. Eastern aesthetics offers unique wisdom for modern life.
4/7/20267 min
Insights
Jiang Xun: The Awakening of Aesthetics
Jiang Xun speaks of Eastern aesthetics in the gentlest voice. He tells us: Beauty is not knowledge, it is feeling; it is not far away, it is in the details of life.
4/7/202617 min