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There was once a goatherd named Zhang San. He raised many goats by the side of his house. One morning, as usual, before he started herding the goats, he counted them one by one. After counting and recounting for several times, he found out that one was missing. "Why do my goats decrease one?" scratching the back of his head, wondering. After investigating, he noticed that there was hole somewhere in the barn wall, that must be the cause, he thought.
Seeing it, his neighbor advised Zhang San to immediately fix the barn so that he wouldn't lost more goats. But Zhang San pass the advice. He only replied, "I have lost one goat. Now it is too late even to fix the barn. Just let it be."
The next morning, when counted, out of his surprise, his goat decreased by one again. This time he regretted. This time he immediately fixed his barn. After the barn was fixed, there was no more missing goat.
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Even the smallest mistake should be handled immediately, should not wait until the problem get bigger. The bigger the problem, the more complex it is to fix it, the more time is needed and the more costly it is. Every mistake should also be analyzed, understand the roots, and make it as guidepost for future actions. Thus, not repeating the same mistake.
In the above story, if only Zhang San heed his neighbour's advice, he wouldn't have lost two goats.
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Le Guang had a very close friend who had never yet come to visit his house again for a very long time.
Le Guang was bewildered with it and asked him the reason. His friend answered, "The last time i came to your house, you served me a cup of fine wine. When i raised up the cup of wine, suddenly i saw inside that cup a small snake. I was very scared, nevertheless i still drank it. After drinking it, i felt very sick and terrible.
Le Guang remembered the last time he served wine to him, on the living room's wall, there was hanged a bow decorated with snake motif. The big bow was bright in color. The small snake mentioned by his friend must be its reflection, he thought. Le Guang brought a cup of wine to the living room and asked, "What did you see in this wine?" His friend answered, "The same thing i saw the last time i visited here." Le Guang then explained to him what was actually that his friend was seeing. Soon afterwards, his friend felt relieved and all his illnesses disappeared completely.
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Prejudice is all in your head. Prejudice creates what was not there to be there, the illness manifested through thoughts.
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There was a young merchant and his son. The merchant had lost his wife and so loved his son very much. One day when the father was away from house, this young son was taken away by a group of thieves. Before the thieves left the house, they burnt down the neighborhood. When the young merchant returned to his house, he found a body of burnt-to-death child near the debris of his house.
Being so struck of losing his son, he brought along with him the bag containing his son's ash with him everywhere he went. Several months later, the merchant's son managed to escape from the thieves and returned back to his old house. He reached his house around midnight and knocked on the door. But the father ignored it, thinking that it was just another naughty kid from the neighborhood playing tricks on him. The son then left the father, and the father lost his son forever.
As we let the doors of our heart remained closed due to past hurt and disappointments, we deprive ourselves from the many other goodness that come knocking on it.
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Once, two villagers came to a rabbi with a dispute. They quickly described their disagreement, then awaited the rabbi's judgement
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'My Daddy says only a miracle can save my brother now . . . so how much does a miracle cost?'
Sally was only eight years old when she heard Mommy and Daddy talking about her little brother, Georgi. He was very sick and they had done everything they could afford to save his life. Only a very expensive surgery could help him now . . . and that was out of the financial question. She heard Daddy say it with a whispered desperation, "Only a miracle can save him now
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A youth went up to a mountain to look for a famous swordsman to learn swordsmanship
"Master, if i practice diligently, how long would it take me to become adept at it?"
"Perhaps ten years
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One day, an old professor of the School of Public Management in France, was invited to lecture on the topic of Efficient Time Management in front of a group of 15 executive managers representing the largest, most successful companies in America. The lecture was one in a series of 5 lectures conducted in one day, and the old professor was given 1 hr to lecture.
Standing in front of this group of elite managers, who were willing to write down every word that would come out of the famous professors mouth, the professor slowly met eyes with each manager, one by one, and finally said, we are going to conduct an experiment
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That evening was a very cold evening in North Virginia, many many decades ago. The beard of the old man was covered with the winter ice while he was waiting for a ride crossing the river.
His wait was endless. His body went numb for the cold winter wind. He then could hear the subtle rhythm of horse steps that was running closer on the icy road. He watched some of the riders passed and turned the junction. He let them pass, without trying to catch their attention.
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Many people think that countryside have much less stuffs in it than the cities, but actually when we think of it, it may not really matter. We can all still live and survive without all these complex sophisticated 'toys' we have in cities, the only thing that really matters is happiness.
Singapore, Singapore River
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A Maharaja decided to walk around his kingdom to see how are his people doing. Just few steps out of his castle, his foot was injured by a stone lying unseen on the road. He thought, "So the road in my kingdom is this bad. I have got to get it fixed."
Maharaja then summoned all his ministers. He ordered to have all the road in his kingdom be layered with the best of leathers. As soon as it was ordered, the ministers started getting the things ready, they gathered the cows from the whole country of the kingdom only to be made into leather.
Amongst such extraordinary busyness, came a wise renunciate came to see him. He said to the Maharaja, "O the Powerful One, why would you make have so much leather just to cover the whole roads spreading throughout the country when actually what you really need is just two pieces of leather to cover your soles
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Comment by WeR1Family
on Egg - An Extravagance
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Thank you for your comment.
I would agree if one can obtain egg without inflicting any suffering to the hen.
However i think it may prove very difficult to satisfy even the market demand of a single household if all producers raise the hens in natural conventional old-times method.
In any way, it would be much more convenience and beneficial raising crops than livestock, with the same acre of land and much less energy, one can feed much more people.
" If you take 2.5 acres of land and use it to grow potatoes, you can fulfill the nutritional requirements of 22 people. If you use
it to grow rice, you can fulfill the nutritional requirements of 19 people. But, if you use it to produce chicken (including the food for the chicken and raising the chickens), you can only fulfill the nutritional requirements of 2 people. Even worse, if you use it to produce eggs or beef (including the food for the hens or cows and the factory itself), you can only fulfill the nutritional requirements of 1 person. With so many people starving in the world, how can we take our land and use it so irresponsibly?"
It still proves that eating animal or even eggs are still an extravagance in the midst of our hunger-stricken world.