The wisdom to overcome yourself

The wisdom to reduce, the wisdom to not do something. ‘Cancer’ is the most threatening disease to mankind nowadays, and its Chinese character (癌) literally means a mouth (口) that eats as much as a mountain(山) load of food. That is, [cancer] is caused by o...

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The era of becoming perfect

‘The supershift’ in mankind’s history, ‘the great transformation’ of the history of faithI heard that for the last one hundred years, mankind has gone through a transformation equaling the transformation seen throughout all of the past histories of mankin...

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The one who ‘forgives’ is a person who belongs to the divine

In an unforgivable situation…Recently there was a news article in which a father ‘forgave’ a person who killed his son due to drunk driving, and people were very moved by it. Forgiveness is a privilege that belongs to ‘divine beings.’ As a human, when you...

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A life that hoists sails, a history that hoists sails

A life like a voyageIn Barcelona of Spain, which opened the Age of Exploration (Era dos Descobrimentos) with Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries, there is a shipyard that boasts about its thousand year history. In this shipyard, there is a separate exh...

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The frog and the Swiss mercenaries

A frog dies because it forgets.Grenouille is French for ‘frog’, and there are several dishes that contain grenouille. One of them is ‘boiled frog.’The way they cook this [dish] is they place a pot and a portable gas burner on a table in front of the custom...

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‘Wait a minute’, the teaching of a wise father

Three questionsOne day, a child came into the house, looking upset. He told his father what had happened, as he huffed and puffed.“Dad, this is what I heard at school. There is a really bad, mean kid and....”When he was about to pour out what he had heard ab...

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Even so, still go!

Even so, still go!On New Year’s Eve, I had my first personal realization about the New Year, which was "even so, still go." As we have lived this life, there have been so many things that we could not do ‘because’ of such-and-such or there were so many thin...

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According to your ‘thoughts,’ the ‘taste’ of living life becomes different.

A successful businessman and a fisherman with a small fishing boatOne day, a successful businessman went on vacation to a small, quiet seaside town in the country. He wanted to get away from the chaos of the city, where he was terribly busy because of his busi...

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Leave all the outcome up to the heavens and just do it.

The charitable work of King Cuo of ZhongshanDuring the Warring States period [of China], there was a king called King Cuo of Zhongshan. One day, [the state of] Chu invaded the state of Zhongshan. The King of Zhongshan lost the battle, so he ran away. As he was...

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The treasure hidden in your field

‘Sweat drops’ like diamonds that are hidden in a fieldThere was a poor farmer living in a village. In order to overcome the severe poverty that he had been in since his childhood, he toiled making efforts day and night for his entire lifetime. In the end, he...

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