You totally don't have to be a kid to read this. He shares ancient zen parables with the children he befriends to help them cool their jets. This is a story about a zen philosophy toting giant panda named Stillwater. The nephew gave this 3 stars because he liked the panda and the stories and the niece gave this 4 stars. I think it’s a practice of over and over until you finally set it down. If she figures it out she can let me know. How do you set that down?” I told her that is the work of sages. She grasped a little bit of the Heavy load story and she said, “when something bothers me, its hard not to only think of that. They couldn’t get their heads around that and to be honest, I don’t think I can either.

She would not give a robber her stuff if he came and she wouldn’t greet him as a guest. The heavy load completely went over his head. Why not report him to the police? Why give him the robe? He has heard the Farmer’s luck before. During the story of Uncle Ry and the Moon when the person being robbed gives the robber his only rob, my nephew could not figure this out. He probably is, but it’s funny to think of a 5 year old being cool. It was fun watching the kids reactions to this. The artwork is sparse and uses lots of open space with only 1 or 2 things to focus on. They challenge the listener to reexamine habits, fears, concepts and desires. Each of these are ancient stories used to hone one’s ability to act with intuition without a goal. There is ‘Uncle Ry and the Moon’, ‘the Farmer’s Luck’ and ‘a Heavy Load’. I have heard the last 2 stories and not the first. Each of them have a problem of a kind and Stillwater tells them a little Zen teaching story that relates and helps them deal with the problem. They become friends and one by one they go to visit Stillwater. One day the panda Stillwater, shows up in the yard of Addy, Michael and Karl.

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