Taken from Reader’s Digest June Edition, by Patricia Espino I’m sure many great, powerful and rich people think about how they can make a difference in the world. There are so many big problems, and they require big solutions, right? Actually sometimes little things can make a really big difference....
There lived a wise teacher, the teacher had several students, one of his students there were mute. One day the teacher told his mute student to go down the mountain. The teacher said, “Tomorrow, go down the mountain and spread the message of Truth which I have spread to everyone.”...
A while before reaching Parinibbana (Death), Buddha delivered his last words: “So, bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness.” After that Buddha entered the first Jhana (States of Peacefulness in Meditation), then the second, third, and fourth. Then he entered the ‘Infinity of...
Thus have I heard: 1) At one time when the Bhagava was staying in the territory of the kuru, in Kammasadhana, a trading city Kuru clan. There the Lord said to the bhikkhus “Bhikkhus.” “Yes, Bhante,” answered the bhikkhus. Bhagava said: “Bhikkhus, there is only a way to purify beings, to...
It was in the afternoon, three caterpillars were having fun eating the leaves while joking playfully. Suddenly, their conversation stopped when they saw a beautiful butterfly flying over them. And butterfly perched on a leaf gracefully, not far from the branch where all three of the caterpillars were assembled. Right...
Thomas Alva Edison The Greatest Inventor in the World Name: Thomas Alva Edison Birth: Milan, Ohio, United States, February 11, 1847 Death: West Orange, New York, October 18, 1931 Inventions: 3000 inventions, one of which is electric lamp Father: Samuel Ogden Edison (of Dutch descent) Mother: Nancy Matthews Elliott Thomas...
Although someone buried treasure deep in the bottom of a well, with the goal that if one day it is required for a favor, then he will be able to use it. Or he thinks “This is for my release from King’s anger, or for ransom when I was being...
CHAPTER 1 YAMAKAVAGGA (THE TWIN VERSE) Verse 1 (I:1. The Story of Cakkhupala Thera ) One day, Cakkhupala Thera visited Jetavana monastery to do homage to the Buddha. Later that night, while doing walking meditation, the thera accidentally stepped on a lot of insects to death. The next day, early...
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