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Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 1
第一章 道可道，非常道。 名可名，非常名。 無名天地之始； 有名萬物之母。 故常無欲，以觀其妙； 常有欲，以觀其徼。 此兩者，同出而異名， 同謂之玄。 玄之又玄， 衆妙之門。 Image is from Wikipedia 1. On the Eternal Tao The Tao that can be told of Is not the Eternal Tao; The Names that can be given Are not Eternal Names. Non-being(Nothingness) is the origin of Heaven and Earth; Being(Significance) is the Mother …
Crab Law
The image is from https://crabsman.com/crab-bushel-basket/. Anyone who has ever fished for crabs knows that you must remember to cover the bamboo basket when you put a crab in it. A single crab will always try to climb out. However, if you catch a few more crabs and put them in, you don’t have to put …
The Voice-3: The Second Miraculous House(1)
If you would like to have background music while you are reading, please click on the arrow below. www.ronbuckgroup.com (entrance to our gated community) “How can you afford to buy this house,” my high school friend, Rebecca asked me not once, not twice but three times over the course of several years. …
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 52
天下有始，以為天下母。 既得其母，以知其子，既知其子，復守其母，沒身不殆。 塞其兌，閉其門，終身不勤。 開其兌，濟其事，終身不救。 見小曰明，守柔曰強。 用其光，復歸其明，無遺身殃；是為習常。 The beginning of the universe Is the mother of all things. Knowing the mother, one also knows the sons. Knowing the sons, yet remaining in touch with the mother, Brings freedom from the fear of death. Keep your mouth shut, Guard the senses, And life is ever full. Open …
The best religion – A dialog between Dalai Lama and Leonardo Boff
This is a transcription of the following article from the blog Just for Sharing Ideas. I found enlightenment in the message in this article. The Brazilian theologist Leonardo Boff wrote: In a round table discussion about religion and freedom in which Dalai Lama and myself were participating at recess, I maliciously and also with interest, …
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Chapter 11
三十輻，共一轂，當其無，有車之用。 埏埴以為器，當其無，有器之用。 鑿戶牖以為室，當其無，有室之用。故有之以為利，無之以為用。 Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel’s hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful. Mold clay into a bowl. The space inside makes it useful. Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful. Therefore, the value comes from what is there, But the use comes …
Indescribable Gifts
The night before Thanksgiving, my son and I prayed together. Suddenly, the question came to me: “What is the meaning of Thanksgiving?” It was God who inspired me to think of such a thing. Well, before I was able to come up with an answer, He said that it was to “Thank God for His …
Love of the Sealed City (Wuhan)
The city may be sealed, but there is the presence of love.
封城之月，月下有愛。
A Painter’s Invoice
One lady hired a painter to paint the walls. When the painter walked into the house, he saw that her husband was blind. But the lady’s husband was very cheerful and optimistic, so the painter had a pleasant time working there and he never once mentioned the man’s physical impairment. After he had finished the …
Seeing Miracles: Naupaka- Live with An Open Heart (Giving and Receiving Love)
If you would like to have background music while you are reading, please click on the arrow below. A couple of months ago, I went to Hawaii to spend a week visiting my daughter. I love to go to the beach in the early morning whenever I visit, so I can marvel at the Island’s …
I, 我 (Mo Yan – Nobel Prize winner in literature )
In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for …
