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318 篇The Archer's Mind | 射箭者的心境
A boastful young archer challenges a Zen master. While the youth excels in technique on stable gr...
28 阅读The Happy Shoemaker | 快乐的鞋匠
A rich but unhappy merchant, disturbed by his poor neighbor the shoemaker's constant singing, giv...
38 阅读The Gift Within | 来自内心的礼物
A teacher appreciates stale water from a student, valuing the kindness behind the gift over the o...
33 阅读The Wooden Bowl | 木碗
A frail grandfather is isolated by his son and daughter-in-law due to his messy eating habits, fo...
34 阅读The Value of Words | 多言何益
Mozi uses the analogy of noisy creatures versus the timely rooster to teach that effective commun...
30 阅读The Smoke Signal | 孤岛上的信号
A shipwreck survivor on a deserted island loses his shelter to a fire, which ultimately becomes t...
34 阅读Two Prayers | 两个祈祷者
Two shipwreck survivors pray on opposite sides of an island. One receives everything he asks for,...
32 阅读Opportunity in the Details | 细节中的机遇
John and Bobby, both hardworking, started at the same company. Years later, only Bobby was promot...
31 阅读Butterfly Insights | 蝴蝶的启示
The author observes a moth-butterfly trapped in a garage, fixated on escaping through a closed wi...
30 阅读Character in Action | 行如其人
A father chooses honesty over saving money on his sons' mini-golf tickets, demonstrating that int...
32 阅读Acres of Diamonds | 铺满钻石的土地
A content African farmer, after learning of diamonds' value, sells his farm to search for them ab...
30 阅读The Chopsticks | 筷子
Mrs. Wen teaches her constantly fighting sons a lesson about unity by showing them that a bundle ...
34 阅读The Carrot, the Egg and the Coffee Bean | 胡萝卜、鸡蛋与咖啡豆
A mother uses a kitchen parable with carrots, eggs, and coffee beans to teach her daughter about ...
35 阅读Sweeping the Sunlight | 扫阳光
Two young brothers try to sweep sunlight into their dark room with a dustpan, failing repeatedly ...
32 阅读The Secret of Life | 生命的奥秘
A story about God seeking a place to hide the Secret of Life. After rejecting suggestions to conc...
26 阅读Happiness is Devotion | 幸福即投入
An old man finds profound joy in the act of fishing itself, not the catch, viewing it as a balanc...
31 阅读The Touchstone | 试金石
A man learns the secret of a magical touchstone hidden among ordinary pebbles. After months of ha...
37 阅读Sleeping on Weapons, Awaiting Dawn | 枕戈待旦
The story of Zu Ti and Liu Kun, two patriotic youths in the Western Jin Dynasty who practiced mar...
22 阅读Three Metaphors for Learning | 人生三喻
King Ping Gong laments it's too late to learn at seventy. His minister Shi Kuang uses three metap...
31 阅读Scraping the Bone to Cure Poison | 刮骨疗毒
During the siege of Fancheng, General Guan Yu endured a painful bone-scraping surgery without ane...
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