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Most Beautiful Heart
One day, a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart. It was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it.
Suddenly, an old man appeared and said, “Your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.”
The young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly, but it was full of scars, jagged edges and holes. He laughed.
“You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”
A Cup Full Of Tea
A Zen master received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Upon arrival, the professor started talking about all the researches he had done on Zen. The Zen literatures he had ploughed through, his thoughts and opinions on what Zen was and so on.