I've found both Zen monk stories and "Sayings of the Desert
  Fathers" (when I was in Eastern Orthodoxy) to be very useful
  stuff. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers was compiled between
  the 4th and 6th centuries AD, originally in Coptic but widely
  translated through the centuries. Took until 1975 to make it
  into English but I was 3 then so in plenty of time for me.
  Anyway, they were of a similar format. Usually it's "A man goes
  up to Abba [x] and asks..." then the lesson. Usually some
  demonstration or some useful answer that makes you go, "Oh!!!"
  Same idea and same kinds of tales. All good stuff.

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