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Teaching stories occurs as term introduced by Idries Shah to describe stories and anecdotes that own been deliberately created when vehicles for the transmission of wisdom. A bit of examples of teaching stories come Sufi stories of Nasrudin or Farid al-Din Attar, Zen koans, and a parables of Jesus.
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Traditional Buddhist Stories Zen Stories To Tell Your Neighbours Collection of stories with a Zen flavour. The Cucumber Sage A monk asked Wu-ming, "The Third Patriarch said, "The Great Way is without difficulty, just cease having preferences." How can you then delight in eating cucumbers, yet refuse to even take one bit of a carrot?" Wu-ming said, "I love cucumbers; I hate carrots!" The monk lurched back as though struck by a thunderbolt. Then laughing and sobbing and dancing about he exclaimed, "Liking cucumbers and hating carrots is without difficulty, just cease preferring the Great Way!" Afterhours Zen Stories Collection of traditional Zen stories. |
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