Zen Story

There’s an old zen story about a monk who asks the master something like, “Does the flag move because the wind blows, or does the wind blow because the flag moves?” and the master replies, “Neither wind nor flag move. Mind moves.”


Once there was a well known philosopher and scholar who devoted himself to the study of Zen for many years. On the day that he finally attained enlightenment, he took all of his books out into the yard, and burned them all. Asked why he replied, "just completed reading all the stuff which are useless to me"