The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak. “Let us agree,” said the Sun, “that he is the stronger who can strip that traveler of his cloak.” “Very…
Art That Expresses Kindness: Wood Artist Hopes to Create the Right Influence With His Work
April 29, 2022
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Embracing the unique color, texture, and shape of every log of wood, a Taiwanese sculptor has created hundreds of wood carvings that all have a story to tell. For the last 30 years, Tsai Mingfeng, 49, has been crafting outstanding wood sculptures, chiseling and hammering conscientiously to express the righteous principles of truth, compassion, and…
A Tradition Called Freedom: The People, The Times, The Belief—Part II
Not all revolutions are glorious. To some people, it might sound romantic to rise up and fight for freedom, but that duplicitous word has often been misused by those harboring ill intentions—with woeful consequences. History is rife with examples of revolutions proclaiming freedom yet serving enslavement, usurpation, even genocide. Legitimate freedom movements have sprung up in…
Aesop’s Fables: The Fox and the Stork
The fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The stork gladly accepted the invitation…
The Unique Easter Tradition of an Aboriginal Village
April 14, 2022
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This article is adapted from the treatment for the documentary film “Wawu: Divine Hope,” written by Australian director and producer Caden Pearson, who now works at The Epoch Times as a journalist. The Guugu Yimidhirr people of Hope Vale, an Aboriginal village in the far northeast of Australia, celebrate Easter with a unique week-long tradition held up…
Sacred Messengers: 10 Musical Instruments That Bring Us Closer to the Divine
April 13, 2022
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Traditionally, music is considered a celebration of the Divine, and musical instruments as the messengers—the sacred tools—relaying the Divine word. No matter what ethnicity or race, or what part of the world one may be from, everyone seems to understand the feelings that the universal language of music communicates. For instance, in ancient China—ages before the…
Aesop’s Fables: The Farmer and the Stork
A stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted. But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the farmer’s net. The stork begged the farmer to spare him. “Please let me…
Cultivating Feminine Power: Traditional Wisdom on Harmonious Relationships
April 4, 2022
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Feminine power is deeply connected to divine traditional wisdom, which, when cultivated, nurtures and uplifts all life benevolently. True feminine power does not deviate from the God-given gifts of compassion and empathy that females innately have within. Tapping this life-changing power’s full potential entails cultivating good moral character, learning to understand men, and embracing family and…
Aesop’s Fables: Three Bullocks and a Lion
A lion had been watching three bullocks feeding in an open field. He had tried to attack them several times, but they had kept together, and helped each other to drive him off. The lion had little hope of eating them, for he was no match for three strong bullocks with their sharp horns and…
A Tradition Called Freedom: The People, The Times, The Belief
Few words have so many different meanings that are so incongruous with one another as the word freedom. At first, the expectation is that freedom equates to no rules. It’s a fallacious notion, for real freedom has rules—ones that are necessarily fair, moral, even metaphysical—and, like all time-honored traditions, they took eons for humans to extrapolate, to…
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