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…

It is stated that learning gives rise to knowledge to assist us to know right from wrong. However, some might use knowledge to challenge others to know who is wiser. This is not right as knowledge should help us get rid of the root of ignorance and in the same way helping others to know.

It is stated that if we think that we’ve started to be wiser than others, we open our mind for stupidity. We must be humble and open ourselves to a lesson and welcome a teaching. This is the way to access knowledge. Additionally, we must be a good learner as education will make us wise.

On one occasion, an abbot, who loved planting orchids, told his novice to take good care of his plant. His novice said, “Yes, sir” and he took good care of the plant, watering, weeding and fertilising it. The plant was very beautiful. One sunny day the novice took the plant outside of the window to be in the sun and air. Accidentally, a strong wind…

There are two kinds of food for life: one is food for the body, which is a diet and another is food for the mind, which is knowledge or wisdom. Food for the body is obvious as it’s needed to maintain the body and food for the mind is also needed to supports life. Two…

There is discussion about knowledge and wisdom, what are they? Let’s talk about this, knowledge is the cause and wisdom is the effect or we can describe knowledge is “theory” and wisdom is “consequence of practice.” Knowledge is gained by studying under others like reading books written by the others and wisdom is gained by…