The Orange Story: Interest-Based Negotiation and Communication

Here is a simple story to illustrate the difference between positions and interests. Once there was an orange and two people who sat toget...

Mulla Nasruddin is Looking for Sweet Peppers

One day Mulla Nasruddin went to market and bought a bushel of peppers. He took them home and began to eat them, one by one. An hour later ...

Jing Si Aphorism - Inspirational Wisdom by Dharma Master Cheng Yen

To be humble is shrink our ego until we are small enough to enter another's eyes and reside in their heart and mind. *** To reg...

An Old Sailor and a Young Professor

Once a young professor was making a sea voyage. He was a highly educated man with a long tail of letters after his name, but he had little e...

Life Is Death Penalty

Once there was a king called Asoka. Asoka was a king from India and he was also a Buddhist. He had a younger brother named Vitasoka. Vitasok...

Adages of Wisdom Quotes by Master Sheng Yen

To develop good interpersonal relationships, one needs to broaden the mind, and be more affable and tolerant. *** Change your mind-set, ...

Ajahn Brahm's Inspiring Wisdom: Two Bad Bricks

After we purchased the land for our monastery in 1983 we were broke. We were in debt. There were no buildings on the land, not even a shed. ...

Jing Si Aphorism - Inspirational Wisdom by Dharma Master Cheng Yen

Transient though life may be, one's contribution will live on; as we love knows no boundaries, its spirit will always remain. *** ...

Nasrudin Gets a Cow

One day, Nasrudin’s wife told him, "Let's buy a cow so that we can have milk every day." Nasrudin replied, "We don'...