Tao Thay Shang Men - English

Every one is longing for living wealthy and rich, and being avoided from poverty, this is something natural.
According to me there are several kinds of richness; rich in wealth, rich in knowledge, rich in moral (inner self), so is the poverty that is poor in wealth, poor in knowledge, poor in moral.

In wealth matter, it can be gotten by diligently work, thrifty, diligently saving money, beside that, certainly it depends on someone’s own destiny.
However, wealth is not something that determines one’s happiness.
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In a conversation with one of his disciples, MengTze said:
“On the hills, there is a narrow path, whenever it is passed by human, then that path way will be getting wider, however, if it has never been passed by human, so in a short while that path way will disappear, due to the growth of wild grass and coarse grass.”

So is in human’s living, the morality of the human is just like that narrow path way. Every moment, we always have to walk through it, always revising it, always developing it, because if we are not being aware, if we are not paying attention to its implementation in our life, so we will soon being covered with narrow mindedness, covered by greediness, covered by hypocrisy, covered with depravity morals which will sink our good deeds, closing our eye of the inner self.

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There was a boat which is sailing in the middle of a very wide river, the boat carried a few passengers and of course one of them is the ship’s captain.

All passengers were sleeping, suddenly came very big wind which blew the boat, the river’s waves kept rolling in, and the boat was adrift and buffeted following the rolls of the wave.

The captain was trying to control the steering wheel so that the boat would not be sunk.
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There is a story to begin with this writing:
Once upon a time, there was a couple that lived modestly in a village. One day, since they had some extra money, and also because it had been years the husband had never made new cloth, so he bought cloth for making a new pair of trousers.
When he got home, he gave that cloth to his wife, and asked her to sew a new pair of trousers and also he gave her his old trousers as the sample, he said: “please make e a new pair of trousers for me, and use this old trousers as the sample”. Then the husband left to work for a whole day.
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