Buddist Meditation

Buddhist Meditation: http://www.audiodharma.org
Meditation: http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/

Emotional Intelligence

http://webhome.idirect.com/~kehamilt/ipsyeq.html

http://eqi.org/

http://eqi.org/eqe96_1.htm

Coding Books

Books About Coding
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* Beautiful Code
* The Best Software Writing
* Programmers at Work
* Out of their Minds
* Code Complete
* Zen of Assembly Language (Michael Abrash)

You Name It....

The train has started moving. It is packed with people of all ages, mostly with the working men and women and young college guys and gals. Near the window, seated a old man with his 30 year old son. As the train moves by, the son is overwhelmed with joy as he was thrilled with the scenery outside..

" See dad, the scenery of green trees moving away is very beautiful"

This behavior from a thirty year old son made the other people feel strange about him. Every one started murmuring something or other about this son."This guy seems to be a krack.." newly married Anup whispered to his wife.

Suddenly it started raining... Rain drops fell on the travelers through the opened window. The Thirty year old son , filled with joy " see dad, how beautiful the rain is .."

Anup's wife got irritated with the rain drops spoiling her new suit.

Anup ," cant you see its raining, you old man, if ur son is not feeling well get him soon to a mental asylum..and dont disturb public henceforth"


The old man hesitated first and then in a low tone replied " we are on the way back from hospital, my son got discharged today morning , he was a blind by birth, last week only he got his vision, these rain and nature are new to his eyes.. Please forgive us for the inconvenience caused..."

Categorized Books To Be Read ...

BOOKS: LIFE
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Anthony Robbins: Unlimited power
Anthony Robbins: Awaken the Giant Within
Anthony Robbins: Inner Strength
Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (P.S.)
Bijan Anjomi: Absolutely Effortless Prosperity
Bill McKibben: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Bill McKibben: The End of Nature
Carl Honore: In Praise of Slow
Carlos Castaneda: The Art of Dreaming
Carlos Castaneda: Fire from Within
Carlos Castaneda: Power of Silence
Carlos Castaneda: Separate Reality
Carlos Castaneda: The Active Side of Infinity
David Myers: The Pursuit of Happiness
David Simon: The Ten Commitments
David Simon & Deepak Chopra: Return to Wholeness
Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Deepak Chopra: Creating Affluence
Deepak Chopra: Peace Is the Way
Deepak Chopra: Perfect Health
Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements
Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now
Gregg Michael Levoy: Callings
Helen Keller: To Love This Life
Helen Keller: Optimism
Homer: Odyssey
Irini Rockwell: Five Wisdom Energies
James Collins & Jerry Porras: Built to Last
James Redfield: The Celestine Prophecy
Jim Collins: Good to Great
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz: The Power of Full Engagement
John Gray: What You Feel You Can Heal
Lao Tzu & Stephen Mitchell: Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
Larry Bossidy: Execution: Discipline of Getting Things Done
M. Scott Peck: The Road Less Traveled
Marshall Rosenberg: Nonviolent Communication
Michael J. Gelb: How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci
Oliver Sacks: Awakenings
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist - DONE
Pema Chodron: Awakening Loving Kindness
Pema Chodron: Comfortable With Uncertainty
Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart
Robert Aziz: Jung's Psychology of Religion & Synchronicity
Robert Moss: Conscious Dreaming
Sakyong Mipham: Ruling Your World
Sidney Rosen: My Voice Will Go With You
Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese? - DONE
Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Sulak Sivaraksa : Seeds of Peace
Sulak Sivaraksa : Conflict, Culture, Change
Sulak Sivaraksa : Loyalty Demands Dissent
Susan Schutz: Reach Out for Your Dreams
Thomas Peters: In Search of Excellence
Vernon Howard: Esoteric Mind Power
Vernon Howard: Your Power of Natural Knowing
Vernon Howard: Secrets for Higher Success
Vernon Howard: Pathways to Perfect Living
Vernon Howard: Inspire Yourself
Wayne Dyer: Your Sacred Self
Wayne Dyer: The Power of Intention
Wayne Dyer: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Wayne Dyer: Inspiration
William Martin: The Sage's Tao Te Ching

BOOKS: NOVELS
+++++++++++++
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Alexander McCall Smith: The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Alistair MacLeod: No Great Mischief
Andre Brink: Dry White Season
Andre Brink: The Other Side of Silence
Andre Brink: Imaginings of Sand
Andre Brink: The Rights of Desire
Andre Brink: Rumours of Rain
Andre Brink: Devil's Valley
Anita Diamant: The Red Tent
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Ayn Rand: Fountainhead - DONE
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged - DONE
Barbara Kingsolver : The Poisonwood Bible
Breyten Breytenbach: The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love
Daniel Mason: The Piano Tuner
Dashell Hammett: Red Harvest
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English
Doris Lessing: The Four Gated City
E.M. Forster: A Passage To India
Ernest Hemingway: Moveable Feast
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty Four
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Graham Greene: England made me
Graham Greene: The Quiet American
Graham Greene: The Ministry of Fear
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
Ian McEwan: Amsterdam
Jack Kerouac: On The Road
Jack London: The Call of the wild
James Joyce: Ulysses
John Berger: Pig Earth
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness
L. Ron Hubbard: Fear
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
M. Coetzee : Disgrace
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Mario Puzo: The Family
Milan Kundera: Unbearable Lightness of Being
Nadine Gordimer: Crimes of conscience
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Penelope Fitzgerald: Innocence
Richard Russo: Empire Falls
Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
Sinclair Lewis: Main Street
Thad Carhart: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
V.S. Naipaul: India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul: In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River
Vivian Gornick: Approaching Eye Level
Vivian Gornick: Fierce Attachments
Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
Wallace Stegner: Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
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Productivity, Time Management, Effectiveness
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (personal effectiveness)
Getting Things Done by David Allen (workflow and productivity)
Maximum Achievement and Time Power by Brian Tracy (time management)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (personal effectiveness)
Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern (getting organized)
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham (finding your strengths)
Is Your Genius at Work? by Dick Richards (finding your genius, book review)


Success, Behavior, Victory
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins (achievement and NLP)
Using Your Brain for a Change by Richard Bandler (NLP)
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman (optimism)
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore (overcoming procrastination)
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers (overcoming procrastination)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (slaughtering your enemy efficiently)
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (ensuring your enemy doesn’t slaughter you first)
The Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley (victory)


Consciousness, Awareness, Spirituality
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Power vs. Force by David Hawkins (levels of consciousness)
Ask and It Is Given and The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent by Esther Hicks (manifesting intentions)
The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (consciousness and awareness)
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra (manifesting intentions)
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (consciousness and awareness)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman (inner peace)
Cosmic Trigger Vol I, Vol II, and Vol III by Robert Anton Wilson (”weird” doesn’t begin to describe it)
A Course in Miracles by the Foundation for Inner Peace (channeled teachings from Jesus)
The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard (awareness and forgiveness)
Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Marciniak (channeled teachings of the Pleiadians)
Operation Terra by Sara Lyara Estes (channeled messages)


Meaning, Purpose, Fulfillment
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, The Power of Intention, and Inspiration by Wayne Dyer (spiritual problem solving, finding your purpose)
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (finding meaning in the Holocaust)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Holocaust story)
A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer (abuse and recovery)


Philosophy, Wisdom
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (wisdom)
As You Think aka As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (power of thought)
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (wisdom)


Psychic Development, Astral Projection, Dreams
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (lucid dreaming)
Talking to Heaven, Reaching to Heaven, and Heaven and Earth by James van Praagh (mediumship, psychic connection)
Trust Your Vibes and Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette (psychic development, Ask Your Guides review, Sonia Choquette interview)
Far Journeys by Robert Monroe (astral projection)


Wealth, Business
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Type-Z Guide to Success With Ease (ebook) and The Millionaire Course by Marc Allen (Type-Z Guide review, Marc Allen interview)
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (wealth)
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (wealth advice)
Built to Last and Good to Great by Jim Collins (business)


Relationships
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (social skills)
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (communication)
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray (male-female communication)
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay by Mira Kirshenbaum (diagnosing relationship issues)
Should I Stay or Go? by Lee Raffel (healing or ending relationships)


Health, Medicine
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell (health, book review)
Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution by John Robbins (health and ethical food choices)
Mad Cowboy by Howard Lyman (why a cattle rancher won’t eat meat)
The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion by Pete Egoscue (pain-free structural alignment)
Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins (laughter as medicine)
Vegan Family Favorites by Erin Pavlina (easy and delicious vegetarian recipes)


Mental Development, Intelligence, Science
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne (develop a superior memory)
Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain (visualization exercises)
Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks by Marilyn vos Savant (boosting your intelligence and mental clarity)
Chaos and Genius by James Gleick (chaos science and fractals; Richard Feynman bio)
The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (social and mental phenomena)


Fiction
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (philosophy of objectivism)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (the insanity of social conditioning)
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (the insanity of war)
Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony (fascinating fiction series): On a Pale Horse (Death), Bearing an Hourglass (Time), With a Tangled Skein (Fate), Wielding a Red Sword (War), Being a Green Mother (Nature), For Love of Evil (Satan), And Eternity (God)
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (the Trojan War and classic Greek mythology)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (stranded boys turn into savages)
Mark Twain: Four Complete Novels by Mark Twain (a true literary genius)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (outgrowing your old self)

EBooks

Some Interesting Links
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http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vortex/401/library/library.html

http://www.dailyzen.com/

http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start

http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/curriculum-Z-H-1.html#node_toc_node_chap_Temp_1

http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/1.html

What is Lost ... ?

I heard this saying when I was a Kid, in my schooling days.

When Wealth is Lost ...
Nothing is Lost !!!

When Health is Lost ...
Something is Lost !!!

When Character is Lost ...
Everything is Lost !!!

I have seen it my life. It is very much true.

Just a thought:
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Plants are the only living beings which is qualified to live in Planet Earth. Animals too is some sense, can be qualified to live in this planet. The organisms which are deadly to Earth are...
* Virus
* Bacteria
* Parasites
* Humans...

Yes, Humans are not qualified to live this planet. He is a Parasite, he is a virus. I still remember Agent smith talking to Morpheus in Movie "THE MATRIX"

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.

Well said

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

Linux Kernel

Linux is Unix-like operating system. It is released under GNU GPL (General Public License). Linux Kernel was originally developed by Linux Trovalds. Linux is written in C Programming Language(GCC).

Simplified Linux Kernel
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Linux_kernel_diagram.png

Linux Kernel Map
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http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

Bahut Shukriya Badi

Bahut Shukriya Badi - This is one of the Hindi Song which I love to hear in my Teenage days.



Don't ask me the meaning of this, I like this Song. I don't know Hindi.

I also love to hear a song which goes like ...

'BADE ACCHE LAGTE HO....YEH NADIYA..YE MAUSUM..YE RENA OR OR TUM..'- I don't know the movie name, couldn't find it in the internet .... :-(

If someone finds it let me know, a nice song to hear.

A-weema-weh A-weema-weh

Want to stay relaxed, watch this:

Some people say, it is Stalin & Me, others say it is PVK & Me. Guess for yourself...




A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh

In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight.

A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh

Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight.
Near the village, the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight.

MONEY !!! Do you deserve it !!!

Money, Money, Money !!!

Give me the Money !@!@!@ Jokes apart...

Do you Deserve the Money you Earn ? If YES... Don't spent it lavishly...

Will you buy a Reynolds ball pen for Rs.100, obviously NO. Then, why are you renting a house for Rs,15,000 per month which is not worth that Money.

Don't buy anything which is not worth that money you pay for it. If you do so, then it is 100% sure that YOU DON'T DESERVE IT !!! IT IS NOT HARD EARNED !!!

Please, please, please make sure that you pay what anything is worth, not a penny more, not a penny less.

Master the Art of Buying !!! the Art of Negotiation !!! Make the seller know that you value your Money, and you can't pay more than what the thing worth.

IF YOU PAY MORE THAN IT'S WORTH !!!!
YOU DON'T DESERVE THE MONEY !!! (YOU DON'T WORTH YOURSELF)

What will happen, if there is going to be one more down fall of IT Industry ? Will they pay back your Money !!! The contractor from whom you the bought the Flat will not pay the EMI for your 50 Lakhs double bedroom flat.

BEWARE !!! BEWARE !!! BEWARE !!!

Vanishing NEWS

Cat Vanish in Magic ....
Rat Vanish in Magic ....

Goat Vanish in Magic ....
Boat Vanish in Magic ....

Even, Taj Mahal Vanish in Magic ....

But, NEWS Vanish in Real-life ....

Knuth and Turing

Most of the Software Engineers don't know who is Donald Knuth and Turing. Oh ... God, have pity on them.

Last week on 10-Jan-08, I thought of writing an article about D.E.Knuth, who is one of my guru. Don't ask me whether I have read and understood any of his books, I was able to completely able to read and understand any of his books.

D.E.Knuth is one of the greatest Computer Scientist alive. He is the famous author of the famous book "The Art of Computer Programming". One of my life-time goal is to read his books and understand what is in it.

He is called as the father of "Algorithm Analysis". In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal and the Kyoto Prize(noble prize in Japan).

-- I will write about Alan Turing on some other day.

Ayn Rand's Principle

"You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences."
-- Ayn Rand

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-- Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
-- Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
-- Ayn Rand


The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
-- Ayn Rand

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-- Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
-- Ayn Rand

A simple fact abt Arrays

Consider the following array:

int a[5]={1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

a[i] == * (a + i)

* (a + i) == * (i + a)

* (i + a) = i[a]

yes, a[i] == i[a], both are same.

In this example 'a' is not a pointer the array. 'a' is just a value or constant. A pointer is an Variable, it means it's value can be modified.

'a' is a pointer constant, it is an address. That's why you can't put 'a' in the left hand side of the equation. 'a' is not an L-value.

Short, But Sweet

I've read lot of books ranging from Any Rand to P.G.Wodehouse. But there are very few books which are very Short But Sweet:

Here is my list:
* Anthem by Ayn Rand
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
* Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
* Who Moved My Cheese
* Fish Tales
* Alchemist (I love this)

Zen Story - 4

Obedience

The master Bankei's talks were attended not only by Zen students but by persons of all ranks and sects. He never quoted sutras nor indulged in scholastic dissertations. Instead, his words were spoken directly from his heart to the hearts of his listeners.

His large audiences angered a priest of the Nichiren sect because the adherents had left to hear about Zen. The self-centered Nichiren priest came to the temple, determined to debate with Bankei.

"Hey, Zen teacher!" he called out. "Wait a minute. Whoever respects you will obey what you say, but a man like myself does not respect you. Can you make me obey you?"

"Come up beside me and I will show you," said Bankei.

Proudly the priest pushed his way through the crowd to the teacher.

Bankei smiled. "Come over to my left side."

The priest obeyed.

"No," said Bankei, "we may talk better if you are on the right side. Step over here."

The priest proudly stepped over to the right

"You see," observed Bankei, "you are obeying me and I think you are a very gentle person. Now sit down and listen."

All the Zen Stories posted here, come from www.101zenstories.com.

Zen Story - 3

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 very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.

In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.

A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.

The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.

Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"

All the Zen Stories posted here, come from www.101zenstories.com.

Zen Story - 2

Finding a Diamond on a Muddy Road

Gudo was the emperor's teacher of his time. Nevertheless, he used to travel alone as a wandering mendicant. Once when he was on his was to Edo, the cultural and political center of the shogunate, he approached a little village named Takenaka. It was evening and a heavy rain was falling. Gudo was thoroughly wet. His straw sandals were in pieces. At a farmhouse near the village he noticed four or five pairs of sandals in the window and decided to buy some dry ones.

The woman who offered him the sandals, seeing how wet he was, invited him in to remain for the night at her home. Gudo accepted, thanking her. He entered and recited a sutra before the family shrine. He then was introduced to the woman's mother, and to her children. Observing that the entire family was depressed, Gudo asked what was wrong.

"My husband is a gambler and a drunkard," the housewife told him. "When he happens to win he drinks and becomes abusive. When he loses he borrows money from others. Sometimes when he becomes thoroughly drunk he does not come home at all. What can I do?"

I will help him," said Gudo. "Here is some money. Get me a gallon of fine wine and something good to eat. Then you may retire. I will meditate before the shrine."

When the man of the house returned about midnight, quite drunk, he bellowed: "Hey, wife, I am home. Have you something for me to eat?"

"I have something for you," said Gudo. "I happened to get caught in the rain and your wife kindly asked me to remain here for the night. In return I have bought some wine and fish, so you might as well have them."

The man was delighted. He drank the wine at once and laid himself down on the floor. Gudo sat in meditation beside him.

In the morning when the husband awoke he had forgotten about the previous night. "Who are you? Where do you come from?" he asked Gudo, who still was meditating.

"I am Gudo of Kyoto and I am going on to Edo," replied the Zen master.

The man was utterly ashamed. He apologized profusely to the teacher of his emperor.

Gudo smiled. "Everything in this life is impermanent," he explained. "Life is very brief. If you keep on gambling and drinking, you will have no time left to accomplish anything else, and you will cause your family to suffer too."

The perception of the husband awoke as if from a dream. "You are right," he declared. "How can I ever repay you for this wonderful teaching! Let me see you off and carry your things a little way."

"If you wish," assented Gudo.

The two started out. After they had gone three miles Gudo told him to return. "Just another five miles," he begged Gudo. They continued on.

"You may return now," suggested Gudo.

"After another ten miles," the man replied.

"Return now," said Gudo, when the ten miles had been passed.

"I am going to follow you all the rest of my life," declared the man.

Modern Zen teachers in Japan spring from the lineage of a famous master who was the successor of Gudo. His name was Mu-nan, the man who never turned back.

All the Zen Stories posted here, come from www.101zenstories.com.