Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father Elias Disney, and mother Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl. After Walt’s birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt lived most of his childhood here. Walt...
A Japanese soldier was captured by his enemy and put into prison. That night, he could not sleep because he was sure that he will be tortured the next day. Suddenly the teacher‘s words flashed in his mind, “Tomorrow is not reality. The only reality is the present.” Then he...
One day, when a hermit was meditating in a monastery, suddenly a robber entered into the monastery. The robber threatened the hermit using a shiny sharp knife and threatening recluse as he barked. “Quickly remove all the money there is in this closet, otherwise I will kill you!” the robber...
If I can choose, which part of the day I like, my answer is I like morning. Why? I have reasons for this. First, I can breath fresh air in the morning (because the rest of the day, as all of you know, Jakarta is the fourth polluted city in...
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...
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