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Good Morning Readers.. Have a Great Day! THE FOUR CANDLES: Four monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. They lit a candle as a symbol of their practice and began. By nightfall on the first day, the candle flickered and then went out. The first monk said: “ Oh, no! The candle is out.” The second monk said: “ We’re not supposed to talk!” The third monk said: “Why must you two break the silence?” The fourth monk laughed and said: “Ha! I’m the only one who didn’t speak.” They all had different reasons, but each of the four monks shared his thoughts without filtering them — none of which improved the situation. Had there been a fifth, wiser monk, he would’ve remained silent and kept meditating. This way, he would’ve pointed out their mistakes without a single word. Without breaking his own quest for better. Done long enough, talking inevitably leads to embarrassing yourself. Listening leads to learning. The less you speak, the smarter you get. And, may...

The Three Laughing Monks: Dear Readers.. In China, there is this legend of the three laughing monks. They are also today sometimes referred to as the three laughing saints. These three laughing monks used to travel from village to village in China. They were poor and without worldly goods or fine clothing but were full of joy. In each village where they stopped, the monks would sit in the marketplace and laugh, and before very long everybody would be gathered around them, bellies shaking and tears running with the intensity of their laughter. The three laughing monks were loved and admired very much. As the years passed, the laughing monks’ fame grew and grew. All of China loved and respected them. Nobody had ever preached the way they did: with laughter and nothing else. They never laughed at anyone in particular, but rather as if they had understood a great cosmic joke. The three laughing monks spread joy all over China without using a single word. After living long lives...

The Law Of Reversibility -By Nevelli Goddard   “For a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity. Whether or not man succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, he knows, nevertheless, that   all transformations of force are reversible.   If heat can produce mechanical motion, so mechanical motion can produce heat. If electricity produces magnetism, magnetism too can develop electric currents. If the voice can cause undulatory currents, so can such currents reproduce the voice, and so on. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible. This law is of the highest importance, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified.   If you knew how you would feel were you to realize your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realize were you to awa...

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “ Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?” " Empty Your Mind"