Tao Thay Shang Men - English

Whose mistake is it?

In a village, there was a family of two brothers. They lived together in a house with a dog. One day the younger brother wanted to visit a friend. Dressed in white, he left their house. On his way to his friend’s house, the weather changed, it started to rain heavily. (more…)

Buying A Pair of Shoes
There was a guy who wanted to buy himself a pair of shoes. He measured the length of his feet with a string. Then he went to a market to buy them and brought along the string. However, due to his negligence, he lost the string which was used to measure his feet. He didn’t know if he lost it somewhere or forgot to bring it. (more…)

Separating Mulberry

This is a true story happened many years ago. However, it is still remembered till now.
In that period, situation was uncertain, state was chaotic, and robbery was everywhere, so many civilians found it hard to live, food was a rarity. (more…)

Do not Damage The Tiger’s Skin
There is a family of a father and a son, living in a village by a forest. One day while searching for woods in the forest, the father was suddenly attacked by a tiger and he was pulled in to the jungle. (more…)

Words and Conducts are the self’s reflected mirror.

A person who is XiuDao (Tao practitioner), that the main point is to revise the physic of the body and the mental, and find the way to communicate with gods, so in one’s progress, there is a standard that can be obviously seen, whether that person has some improvement in his/hers XiuDao process. That is from someone’s words of saying and conducts in daily life. (more…)

Xiu Dao would be easier…
Xiu Dao would be easier if we are willing to be more modest
The modesty would make us easier to absorb the knowledge broader and deeper. It also makes us to be more able to accept the condition that happened in our surrounding neighborhood and it would make us more relieve, so that we could be able to see a problem clearer. (more…)

The Crimson Dusk
The humans’ life is like the passing time, like the sun’s cycle, so we ought to learn from nature’s phenomenon in order to get the wisdom in going through the life itself. (more…)

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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