Salam alaikum, Jummah Mubarak, and Happy New Year! Today, I read and discuss a few short stories from Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots and Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. May Allah ﷻ bless you all and grant Peace and Goodwill to our Human Family. Amin. 🤲🏻 https://youtu.be/PT2zdNoumHo
Zen
Is that so?
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child. This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much…Read more Is that so?
The Tea-Master and the Assassin
Taiko, a warrior who lived in Japan before the Tokugawa era, studied Cha-no-yu, tea etiquette, with Sen no Rikyu, a teacher of that aesthetical expression of calmness and contentment.Taiko’s attendant warrior Kato interpreted his superior’s enthusiasm for tea etiquette as negligence of state affairs, so he decided to kill Sen no Rikyu. He pretended to…Read more The Tea-Master and the Assassin
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 