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It is stated that if you are able to overcome others, you are strong. If you can overcome yourself, you are stronger. Every day people most likely live in the competitive battles such as education, career, social position and politics. That’s why people work against one another. However, to win others is not great because…
Expectation and Disappointment
It is stated that people mostly live their life with some expectations, for example, they want to live the longest life like 80 years, 90 years, or a hundred year. However, they are disappointed as most of them cannot get what they expect or want as life is impermanent and unpredictable. However, if they are…
Yes and No
In the classroom of Taoism, a master asked his students the same question for three times: Do you know what I’m gonna teach you. The students answered, “No sir” for the first time, Yes sir for the second time and for the third time, they divided into two groups: the first group replied, “No sir”,…
Happiness is based on right understanding
It is like the story written by Leo Tolstoy: A king wanted to have forever happiness. He consulted with his officers how to achieve it. He was advised to find a happy man, take his shirt and put it on, he will be endlessly happy. The king sent his men to look for the happy…
Open our mind to learn
It is stated that this world is full of knowledge: everything is the teaching and everyone is our teacher. We just open our mind to learn it and apply it in our life. However, there’s an obstacle in learning: our mind is sometimes biased with some belief or tradition, so that we cannot receive or…
Imperfect World
We must realize that we live in imperfect world, which is full of imperfect creatures, including us, human beings. If we look at the true side of things, we will see all are imperfect. For instance, ‘the sea’, which we think is great. However, it is still subject to praise and blame like all, for…