The Bonsai

HISTORY OF BONSAI The history of bonsai (pronounced bon-sigh) is cloaked in the mist of the past but it is now widely accepted that it was the Chinese who first created the miniature landscapes and trees that we now know as bonsai. In Japanese, bonsai can be literally translated as “tray planting”, but since originating […]

Pavlov’s Dog

Who was Pavlov’s Dog? Well, it is an experiment in behavioral psychology. The idea is that if we associate one thing with another (in this case, associate a bell with food), that eventually the same things will happen when the associated thing happens as when the original impetus happens. The dogs would start salivating when they […]

one with the whole

The Dew Drop  Peter Hughes As the sun rose, a dew drop became aware of its surroundings. There it sat on a leaf, catching the sunlight and throwing it back out. Proud of its simple beauty, it was very content. Around it were other dew drops, some on the same leaf and some on other […]

Zen Test

In my morning stroll through the mountains and valleys of the internet, in search for zen and or a soul moving read, I found this; Test Your Zen  (click here) @Carisma Arts / blog (give it a try, it was fun. Come back and tell me how you did. I was a Novice. A perfect score […]

never know what the future holds

Many years ago, a man and his wife lived in a small thatched hut on a very small piece of land.  They were poor and barely had enough to live.  Every day they both went into the woods together to cut two bundles of firewood.  They kept one burn for cooking and for heating their small home.  They […]

little things…

  A soldier returning home alone from a great battle found a monster blocking his path. It wasn’t much of a monster. In fact it was quite pathetic. It was small, its claws were blunt, and most of its teeth were missing.The solder had won all the battles he had ever been in and was […]

The 18 Wooden Warriors (of Lohan Hall)

The Historic 36th chamber and 18 wooden warriors of Lohan Hall in a southern province, Shaolin Temple, is shrouded in some mystery, for they were destroyed in the early 1700′s. In the movie, Kung Fu, with David Carradine the last part of this test was depicted with the 500 pound urn filled with red hot […]

feathers and a whale of a tale

There was a man who slandered a friend big time, all because of the envy he had for him and for the success he had reached. After he repented of the ruin he brought with his calumnies on that friend, he visited a highly wise man to whom he said: “I want to fix all the […]

the web and the cocoon

One day, a spider and a silkworm crossed paths and struck up a conversation. The spider said to the silkworm, “I admit your silk is better than the silk from the spider. It is yellow and white, dazzling and bright. You use the silk that you spin yourself to make a beautiful comfortable cocoon, which […]

The Immovable Mind

Immovable Mind I watched a movie, ‘Ninja‘ Wednesday, where the Sensei was trying to teach two promonate successors the supreme lesson, (Fushosin) ’The Immovable Mind,’ so that they could one day take over his role as ‘Soke’ or head of the martial arts school. He described one student as being like that of a Tiger, strong and feirce. Then […]