Life lessons come in many forms. On a cold winter’s night 30 years ago, a businessman came to a hospital in Washington, D.C. looking for his wife’s lost purse. The purse contained US$100,000 in cash and a trade secret, so he was extremely anxious about the loss. Upon arriving at the hospital, he saw a thin, ...
What’s wrong with the people of China and what’s the reason Chinese don’t help each other? There are far too many examples in China regarding people walking past those in need. Many are lamenting the decline in moral standards that is one of the hallmarks of modern China. Over the 60 years that the Chinese Communist ...
Once, there was a homeless youth who went to a temple where he was fortunate enough to be accepted. After he had a bath and shaved his head, the young monk looked quite attractive. The temple master took care of him and taught him basic lessons. He was quite smart and diligent, and soon the master ...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the four great novels of ancient China, depicts the era in which a group of warlords divided China into several separate states and the wars that raged among them. This fictionalized account of that time is famous for its moral lessons of valor and righteousness. Of course, ...
There is a legend about a once-famous painter and how greed destroyed a person’s destiny. He wanted to make the Buddha and demons the subjects of his paintings, but since he did not know what they looked like nor could he imagine what they looked like, he became very anxious. One day, he met a ...
The ancients believed that to escape plagues, it was necessary for people to sincerely confess their sins to God and repent. In modern times, people speak of “raising their vibration.” And the steps required to reach such a level include developing kindness, honesty, integrity, tolerance, selflessness, optimism, and respect for the divine. The ancients also ...
It has been observed that tragedy, or simply the threat of an impending one, somehow elicits a bonding among human beings. People who were fighting against one another, whether it is for wealth, power, status, etc., seem to come together to help each other get through tragic conditions like earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, viral outbreaks, and ...
In the mid-period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a herb merchant named Song Qing who lived in the capital of Chang’an in the western part of the city. During that time, there was a well-known adage that held: “Medicinal herb merchant Song Qing is a person with righteous thinking.” Being a humble merchant, how ...
A good moral character is the most precious asset a person possesses. It determines whether he can be successful or not and is the best assistance one can have in life. “To speak in a mean [that is the mean or middle style more appropriate to prose], the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, ...
To many traditional Chinese families, having a son is critically important in order to carry on the family name, especially when there is a single son in the family. During the Qing Dynasty in Wuxi in Jiangxi Province, a family of farmers with the last name Chen had an only child named Ajian. To the ...
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