God is sacred. We must hold this belief inviolable and worthy of veneration always and under all circumstances. Otherwise, even if what we do is unintentional, divine retribution will eventually befall us and possibly even our family. The following traditional story about Master Ho and Li Zhou illustrates this. My name is Li Zhou, from ...
A belief in God lays the moral foundation for men — to live, to prosper, to raise a family, and also to lead a nation. There are lots of discussions being conducted nowadays on the nature of morality — how it varies from individual to nation to circumstance and how subjective it is. To a ...
On the Friday afternoon of April 10, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that on Easter Sunday, there would be millions of Christians celebrating Easter and the resurrection of Christ by praying: “At this sacred moment, let us pray to God to help heal infected patients, soothe people’s broken hearts, and bless heroes who fight against ...
Recently, a prayer by Julian Urban, a 38-year-old doctor from Lombardy, Italy, went viral on the internet: LIGHT IN A DOCTOR’S DARKEST NIGHTMARE. He began: “Never in my darkest nightmares did I imagine that I would see and experience what has been going on in Italy in our hospital this past three weeks.” Feeling helpless ...
Taipei in May and June of 1981 was hot and humid. My four children wanted to go for a walk. We went out, and as we were passing Hengyang Road, an old man suddenly ran toward us, insistent on telling me my fortune. I refused his request many times until the situation became uncomfortable. The ...
People over the millennia have reported having deeply moving religious experiences either spontaneously or while under the influence of psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms or the Amazonian brew ayahuasca. A portion of those experiences has been encounters with what the person regards as “God” or “ultimate reality.” In a survey of thousands of people ...