The King of The Wood

A Witness of the King… Who does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the...

The Ears of King Midas

The donkey’s ears are difficult to conceal  The god Pan was once so foolish as to compare his music with the divine music of Apollo. He even went so far as to challenge Apollo to a trial of music. Apollo accepted at once. So Tmolus, the mountain-god agreed to...

The Rebirth of The Grand Lama

A Grand Lama had passed his whole life in idleness. Although he was surrounded by men of learning, had had excellent tutors in his youth, and had inherited an excellent library from his predecessors, he scarcely knew how to read. One day, this lama died. Now, in those...

Buddha’s 4 Noble Truths

Lee Lozowick, a teacher of Red Hawk’s said the following about Work on oneself. “Transformation is not a masculine process. The ‘Work’ is not a masculine process. Practice, Sadhana, Surrender to the Will of God are not masculine processes.” In his...

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Betimes in the morning say to thyself: “This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. “All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of...

Tales of Bodhidharma

A bearded Indian monk, the third son of a South Indian Brahmin king, appeared one day at the Chinese port of Canton and made his way from there to  Nanking, near the mouth of the Yangtze River. He was responding to an invitation from China’s Emperor Wu of the...