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The Woman Who Was Condemned

Religious authorities brought a woman before Jesus, demanding she be stoned. "The law says she must die," they said. They wanted him to approve the... (2/1/2018)

One Broken Key

My keyboard has 105 keys. One of them is broken — it displays the wrong character. The other 104 work perfectly.And yet that single broken... (1/28/2018)

Speak with Your Whole Soul

Loud words often carry the least meaning. The most powerful speech is slow, simple, and genuinely felt.When you speak from a real place — not... (1/26/2018)

The Practice of Releasing Animals

The Buddhist practice of releasing animals back into nature is one of the most tangible forms of compassion. But it must be done correctly —... (1/22/2018)

The Many Flavors of Life

Bitterness. Jealousy. Betrayal. Sincerity. These are all flavors of the same life.None of them are purely good or purely bad. They are ingredients — materials... (1/16/2018)

A Direction for Your Life

A few principles worth carrying:Practice gentleness even when you're right. Conviction doesn't require force.Forgive quickly. Holding resentment costs you more than it costs them.Choose the... (1/12/2018)

Happy New Year 2018

We are like hourglasses — the mind and the heart must balance each other, grain by grain, to keep time moving in the right direction.This... (1/1/2018)

Truly Live — Don’t Just Do

A motorbike ride to Đà Lạt: 300k in fuel for the round trip, 7 hours on the road, forest paths and valley views, a village... (1/1/2018)

Compassion Is the Highest Teaching

One Saturday evening, a drunk motorcyclist cursed at me on the street. My first instinct was to respond in kind.Then an image flashed through my... (12/30/2017)

Online Training — Coming Soon

The past two weeks have been a blur of recording sessions and almost no sleep — building an online training course from the ground up.The... (12/30/2017)

Everyone Has Been There

Everyone has watched a river flow — but few have mastered the calm acceptance of simply letting things pass.Everyone has seen grass spring back after... (12/24/2017)

A Life of Wandering

Rain falls as individual drops. Streams gather them into rivers. Rivers carry them to the sea.People are the same. We spend our lives absorbing —... (12/22/2017)

Heavy

Zen Master Ajahn Chah was walking with his disciples when he stopped and pointed to a large rock by the roadside."Does this rock seem heavy... (12/18/2017)

Traveling Alone

There is a particular freedom in solo travel — moving at your own pace, stopping when you want, following whatever calls to you without negotiation.The... (12/11/2017)

Having Books Read to You While You Rest

After finding a way to translate foreign documents into Vietnamese, the next challenge is reading them. Printing page after page gets old quickly.A better solution:... (12/7/2017)

What Is Life For? What Is Death For?

We feed the body three times a day without question. But how often do we nourish the soul?Life's purpose isn't answered by survival. Eating, sleeping,... (12/6/2017)

Translate Any Document in 30 Seconds

If you have important documents in English — Word files, PDFs, Excel sheets — but don't have the language skills or funds for professional translation,... (12/4/2017)

Just Pack a Bag and Go? Think It Through First.

The romanticized image of impulsive travel — just throw a bag over your shoulder and disappear — misses something important: preparation is what makes spontaneity... (12/3/2017)

Simple Ways to Overcome a Crisis

When a crisis hits — a business scandal, a public failure, a sudden collapse of trust — the first instinct is to react. That instinct... (11/21/2017)

Mindful Steps

I was supposed to be running the camera. Someone introduced me as the presenter instead.I froze. The stage was there, the audience was there, and... (11/16/2017)