Practice makes perfect: a girl learned to play a violin, but the sound of violin she played was irritating. Her grandpa asked her, “What musical instrument is it, you are playing? She answered, “Violin, grandpa.” He thought violin produced such an annoying sound. Next morning, he walked the girl to school, near the school building, he heard a…

An old master taught his students, “If I tell you, this apple is delicious, you should take note of my words, but don’t believe me offhand, because you haven’t tasted it yet.” This is true teaching, as seeing or experiencing is believing. Therefore, we should not believe in hearsay and philosophy, or these are the…

It is stated that understanding is deeper than knowledge: you might know many things in this word. Without understanding, you cannot make use of them. For example, you know many philosophies of life and religious teachings. However, when you are hit by emotion or feeling, you are easily distracted. Your knowledge cannot assist you to…

Good expression: a thief robbed an old man, “Give me all your money!” He replied, “Giving is good.” The thief kept on threatening him by saying, “You have seen my face so I have to kill you, too.” The old man said, “Killing me is good.” “What? Why is it good?”, the thief exclaimed. He replied, “I am…

It is stated that judgement is an action, which is easily performed: a young couple moved into a new neighbourhood, sitting in the dinning room, the wife saw her neighbour hanging the wishing outside and said, “That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly.” The next morning, she was surprised…

It is stated that there are two sources of knowledge or wisdom, one’s from the others like reading a book or listening to the teachings of the others, and another’s from ones’ own experience like we might hear a lot about the taste of an apple, but we never know the real taste of the…