When a friend of mine firstly became a Buddhist and visited a Buddhist land, he wore a lot of Buddhist ornaments like a Buddha amulet, necklaces and beads. There, an old monk, who cannot speak any English, showed his body language to him: objects or ornaments (materialism) are not good, but mind (spiritualism) is the…

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”,…

It is stated that talk is an easy way to make one another understand. This world will be peaceful if we talk to each other instead of about each other. However, when we have something in mind, we like to keep quiet. In fact, we should open our mind and mouth, convey the truth to…

There is a wise saying: let it go. However, people mostly care too much about what others say, so they cannot let it go; they pick it up and think it over. Worse than that, it makes them neither sleep nor eat well. In practice, they must leave the saying where it was said like…

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…

It is stated that knowledge or wisdom is compared to light that guides life out of the darkness or trouble. There is a saying: if you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. It is true and similar to the inspiring story: a man yelled at a blind man, “Why…