Alison Summerhayes Lyke's Blog – August 2010 Archive (1)

By Alison Lyke



One of my favorite Zen stories is called “Is that so?”. It’s the tale of a Buddhist monk who lived in a hut on a hill, overlooking a small village. One of the young, unmarried women of the village became pregnant. When asked who impregnated her, she named the monk on the hill. When she gave birth, the irate grandparents took the baby boy up the hill and left him with the monk.



“This child is yours,” the grandparents told… Continue