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The Zen Monkey and the Lotus Flower: 52 Stories That Will Change the Way You Think Forever: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom
This is the second book in the Zen Monkey and the Lotus Flower series. It contains a new collection of powerful and thought-provoking stories designed to shift your perspective and deepen your understanding of life, mindfulness, and the self.
Do you need more time for yourself?
Do you want to get your mind off things?
Do you long for more happiness and contentment?
Then this is the book for you!
It contains 52 stories that will change the way you think forever.
Each story is carefully selected to explain important Buddhist wisdom and thought processes. They deal with universal themes such as gratitude, mindfulness, self-love, and happiness.
The stories convey valuable life lessons that will enrich your life. After each story, a reference to the present time is made. It also tells what you can learn from the story for your own life.
Especially in today's world full of stress and distractions, the teachings of Buddhism are a true blessing. They give us new food for thought and show us what really matters in life.
This book invites you to reflect and find yourself. It shows you new ways of thinking that have incredible potential. You do NOT need to have any prior knowledge of Buddhism. These are timeless life lessons that are valuable and helpful to everyone (regardless of age or religion).
Buy this book if you....
want to stop negative thoughtswant to become happier and more contentneed new ideas and food for thoughtwant to reduce stresswant to find inner peace
Order the book now and start the most important journey in The journey of your life.
Do you need more time for yourself?
Do you want to get your mind off things?
Do you long for more happiness and contentment?
Then this is the book for you!
It contains 52 stories that will change the way you think forever.
Each story is carefully selected to explain important Buddhist wisdom and thought processes. They deal with universal themes such as gratitude, mindfulness, self-love, and happiness.
The stories convey valuable life lessons that will enrich your life. After each story, a reference to the present time is made. It also tells what you can learn from the story for your own life.
Especially in today's world full of stress and distractions, the teachings of Buddhism are a true blessing. They give us new food for thought and show us what really matters in life.
This book invites you to reflect and find yourself. It shows you new ways of thinking that have incredible potential. You do NOT need to have any prior knowledge of Buddhism. These are timeless life lessons that are valuable and helpful to everyone (regardless of age or religion).
Buy this book if you....
want to stop negative thoughtswant to become happier and more contentneed new ideas and food for thoughtwant to reduce stresswant to find inner peace
Order the book now and start the most important journey in The journey of your life.
163 pages, Paperback
Published August 7, 2025
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September 10, 2025
Another week, another monkey. And BookSloth has always been fond of monkeys. But this one isn’t swinging through branches in the rainforest—it’s the restless monkey inside our own heads. That one that won’t sit still, that keeps chattering about yesterday’s mistakes and tomorrow’s fears.
In The Zen Monkey and the Lotus Flower: Book 2, Tenpa Yeshe has written 52 parables, each standing alone. Unlike other stories where one character sets out on a journey and we travel with them, here it’s almost flipped: the master remains, and different figures arrive. Each visitor brings their own question, struggle, or doubt, and in their exchange a fresh teaching emerges.
That shift in structure makes the book less about narrative continuity and more about presence. These stories don’t build towards a single destination—and that’s kind of the point. Each one is a moment of practice, a pebble dropped in still water.
Yeshe reminds us that our monkey mind isn’t the enemy. It’s not something to silence, shame, or banish. In Buddhist teaching, the monkey mind was always there to protect us—quick to notice threats, eager to keep us alive.
The problem isn’t the chatter itself. The problem is when we mistake the noise for truth. And these stories are a deceptively simple but incredibly powerful reminder that the point isn’t to stop the monkeys. It’s to learn to live alongside them.
Instead of fighting our thoughts, we offer them a branch to swing on. We breathe. We smile. We watch them leap about and realise we don’t need to join them.
The mind can chatter and stillness can remain.
BookSloth wants to repeat that:
The mind can chatter, worry, leap like monkeys through the branches… and yet underneath, there is a deeper awareness that isn’t disturbed. Like the sky holding passing clouds, or the ocean holding surface waves. The stillness is always there; the chatter just moves through it.
In Zen and Buddhist teaching, paradoxes like that are not mistakes; they’re doorways. On the surface, it feels contradictory: if the mind is noisy, how can there be stillness? But the practice shows that stillness isn’t the absence of thought—it’s the space around thought.
In this same way, these stories point you towards an insight you feel in practice, not something you solve with reasoning.
This isn’t a book to read in one sitting. It’s one to dip into weekly, maybe daily. A companion for when your head feels like a noisy jungle.
And for BookSloth, who’s always being visited by those mind monkeys, this book is a reminder that the chatter isn’t a curse. It’s part of the path. And if you let it, it will teach you, in a non-teachy way, how to sit beside the monkey, lotus-like, in quiet companionship.
Five stars, and a BookSloth sitting quietly, watching her thought-clouds slip by.
In The Zen Monkey and the Lotus Flower: Book 2, Tenpa Yeshe has written 52 parables, each standing alone. Unlike other stories where one character sets out on a journey and we travel with them, here it’s almost flipped: the master remains, and different figures arrive. Each visitor brings their own question, struggle, or doubt, and in their exchange a fresh teaching emerges.
That shift in structure makes the book less about narrative continuity and more about presence. These stories don’t build towards a single destination—and that’s kind of the point. Each one is a moment of practice, a pebble dropped in still water.
Yeshe reminds us that our monkey mind isn’t the enemy. It’s not something to silence, shame, or banish. In Buddhist teaching, the monkey mind was always there to protect us—quick to notice threats, eager to keep us alive.
The problem isn’t the chatter itself. The problem is when we mistake the noise for truth. And these stories are a deceptively simple but incredibly powerful reminder that the point isn’t to stop the monkeys. It’s to learn to live alongside them.
Instead of fighting our thoughts, we offer them a branch to swing on. We breathe. We smile. We watch them leap about and realise we don’t need to join them.
The mind can chatter and stillness can remain.
BookSloth wants to repeat that:
The mind can chatter, worry, leap like monkeys through the branches… and yet underneath, there is a deeper awareness that isn’t disturbed. Like the sky holding passing clouds, or the ocean holding surface waves. The stillness is always there; the chatter just moves through it.
In Zen and Buddhist teaching, paradoxes like that are not mistakes; they’re doorways. On the surface, it feels contradictory: if the mind is noisy, how can there be stillness? But the practice shows that stillness isn’t the absence of thought—it’s the space around thought.
In this same way, these stories point you towards an insight you feel in practice, not something you solve with reasoning.
This isn’t a book to read in one sitting. It’s one to dip into weekly, maybe daily. A companion for when your head feels like a noisy jungle.
And for BookSloth, who’s always being visited by those mind monkeys, this book is a reminder that the chatter isn’t a curse. It’s part of the path. And if you let it, it will teach you, in a non-teachy way, how to sit beside the monkey, lotus-like, in quiet companionship.
Five stars, and a BookSloth sitting quietly, watching her thought-clouds slip by.
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