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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the light of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
(Buddha)

When you enter a dark room you turn on the light to dispel the darkness and see what is in the room - to see the “true nature” of the room. Ignorance is a “darkness” of the mind and a candle symbolizes the Buddha’s teaching; it’s the “light” of truth that dispels the darkness of ignorance. Just as a flame can pass from one candle to another, so too can the truth be given from one person to another.

Thanks to http://thistimethisspace.com/ for the above paragraph.

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There was once a Zen master who was famous as a skilled archer.

On one occasion a young man who had gained an enviable reputation at the sport challenged the old man to a contest. A large crowd gathered to see the event and their sympathy was all for the Zen master for his opponent turned out to be rather a conceited fellow.

The latter hit a bull’s eye on his first try and followed that up by splitting the first arrow with his second shot.

When the old man’s turn came, he said he knew a far better place to have the contest. The crowd followed the pair up the mountain side till they came to a deep chasm spanned by a rather thin and shaky log.

Calmly stepping out on to the middle of the unsteady and certainly perilous bridge, the old master chose a distant tree as a target, drew his bow and fired a clean, direct hit. "Now it is your turn," he said, returning to safe ground.

Staring with terror into the abyss, the young man couldn’t force himself to step out on to the log, never mind shoot at the target.

"You have much skill with your bow," the master said softly, "but you have little skill with the mind that lets loose the shot."

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