Category: Santa Clara Meditation Column

We call something we haven’t attained a ‘dream’ and chase it. From small beginnings of hope for happiness, it snowballs into greater hope. But when we suddenly feel we are off track, the futility surges.

A woodcutter went to the mountain for some wood.
He grabbed a vine to remove it but it was the tail of a tiger that was sleeping in the shade.
The woodcutter who touched the sleeping tiger was surprised and climbed up the tree.
The angry tiger shook the tree wildly.

Whenever I look at the world, the only word that comes to mind is “beautiful.” That is the perfect description of the world because it is, indeed, simply beautiful. Beyond the window, you gaze upon the blue sky, green mountains, roses blossoming in the garden, and can even imagine the wind brushing your cheeks… It is truly a beautiful world where everything lives in perfect harmony with each other, where all creatures silently coexist in one space. It is as beautiful as can be.

Santa Clara Meditation Column – Like Wild Flowers Whose Name We Don’t Know…

The world is truly a beautiful place, a gift from God to human beings. Whenever we are stuck in some meaningless affairs, burdened and stressed, unable to find answers from within, we start to orient our view towards looking outside of ourselves and looking at nature.

It seems that as time goes by, our mind comes to ruin and becomes dirtied. Along with rapid modernization, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mental illnesses that have affected the once-pure minds of mankind, which used to commune with nature.

Not long ago, The Dark Knight Rises, the final episode of the Christopher Nolan’s Batman film trilogy, was released. In the last scene of this film, there is only a minute and a half before the nuclear bomb will explode and everyone in the city will die unless the bomb is defused. Batman finally decides to load the bomb on his combat plane and fly over the sea.

Santa Clara Meditation Column – Remembering Steve Jobs’s Passion In 2020

Steve Jobs is unarguably the modern symbol of innovation. There is no one who does not know who Steven Jobs is. Two phrases from Steven Jobs’s speech at Stanford University resounded within me; “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” As his own words, he tirelessly and endlessly researched and challenged himself and others.

Santa Clara Meditation Column – What Is There To Remain? In our lifetimes, we hear countless...

“If a man is crossing a river by boat and an empty boat comes and hits his boat, no matter how bad his personality is, he will not get angry.
But if there is a man in the boat, the boatman will yell at him to avoid his boat.

Someone sought out and asked a master,
“You can’t imagine how hard my life is. I am very unhappy because of stress. Please teach me the key to being happy.”

There was a person who had a lot of questions about life.
“Who am I? Where do I come from and where will I go?”
“Why is life futile? Why do we experience all sorts of emotions?”

A professor put a jar on the school table and filled it with a fistful of stones.
“Is this jar full?”
When the professor asked, the students answered, “Yes.”

He wanted to be successful, but he didn’t think the circumstances were helping him.

He went to the king and asked him to teach him how to succeed.

A boy went to see the circus with his dad. While watching the elephant show and having fun, the boy suddenly asked his dad, “Dad, isn’t that elephant dangerous? The strap he is tied to is very thin. I think that leash will snap quickly.”

What comes to your mind when you think of an ant?
A convoy of food that is several times as large as one’s body.

A flock of geese flies in the winter sky in the form of the letter ‘V.’
They came from far away Siberia to have a good winter.
I didn’t think too much of them, just one group of common migratory birds at this time of year.

A dragonfly is sitting on a gliding blade of grass.
Soon that dragonfly will fly away.
There is a frog sitting on a narrow street.
Soon that frog will hop away.

“What is life?”
A student asked Socrates.
Socrates took his disciples to the apple tree forest.