I love strawberries. Here are 10 stories about them and other tasty treats.
- Buddhist story about tiger and wild strawberry on the cliff – on savouring
- Story about nonduality of red knife (strawberries or blood?) – on fear/curiosity
- The world’s last strawberry – on ??
- Candy – on rewards
- The Itsh Sandwich – on feedback
- Grandmomma’s Roast – on knowledge
- The Bigger Piece of Chicken – on deserving
- Cabbage Without Thousand Island Dressing – on Buddha nature
- Your Mise is Cooking – on designing your life
- “I’m going to butcher his words” but that assumes butchers hack (story of Cook Ding) – on mastery
- “Don’t cry over spilled milk” – when it is appropriate to create space for expression and when is it appropriate to create momentum for moving forward?
- “I can’t show up empty handed” – on presents/presence
- The omelette test – on mastery
- “Did you eat yet?” – on greetings
- “Old ginger” – on aging
- “It’s never about the dishwasher” – on fighting
- “10% tip is enough” – on expectations
- The vacationer and the fishermen – on samsara
- Rule #6: Don’t forget, we sell dead fish – on taking ourselves seriously
- Chocolate tempering – on freezing/unfreezing stages of learning (Ed Schein)
- Washing your dishes – on presence of enjoyment (Thit Naht Hanh)
- Give them bread and circuses – on addiction of technology
- “Every grain of rice” – on waste, the extremes of both sides
- “Never trust a skinny chef” – on ??
- Yogurt – on transformational containers
- A cup of sugar – on modern relationships (no need to depend on neighbour anymore for those things, we have Amazon)
- The sharpest knife – on popular misunderstandings (the only way to tell is cut through paper)
- Choux pastry – just because it’s the top hit on Google search, doesn’t mean it’s right.
Some of these are sayings, some are folktales, some are stories that I need to write, others are opinions …