This Han Feizi passage links calm mind and empty senses to virtue accumulation. Virtue brings harmony, wisdom, mastery, victory, and boundless power.
When we consider that the merits which we benefit from today were earned by our forefathers, we should reflect on the difficulties they had to undergo in order to acquire those merits.
When at leisure do not let precious time slip idly by. You will discover the great value of such advice in your busy days.
Strange Tales from Liaozhai’s “The Cloth Merchant”(or “The Cloth Dealer”) tells a peculiar yet touching story about a cloth merchant and a ghost.
A man from Changqing County, Shandong, lived by selling cloth. While he was in Taian, Jiangsu, he heard there was a very good fortune teller, so he asked the man to forecast his future. The fortune teller told him:”You’re in trouble. Hurry home.”