Kandata was floating and sinking along with the other sinners in the Lake of Blood at the bottom of Hell. It was pitch black no matter which way he looked, and the occasional glimpse of light that he would see in the darkness would turn out to be jus...
One day, the Buddha was strolling alone along the edge of a lotus pond in Paradise. The blooming lotus flowers in the pond were each pure white like jewels, and the place was filled with the indescribably wondrous fragrance continually emitted from e...
This past April while visiting my parents on the farm I'd grown up on, I wandered outside to drink in the feel of home, a comfort I really needed right then. I was used to sunny Southern Californian morning and the brisk early-morning Iowan air nippe...
There is a very famous traditional Chinese story that has a close connection to the Dragon Boat Festival. Once upon a time on E-Mei mountain there lived two snake spirits, White Snake and Green Snake. These snakes, being magical, turned themselves in...
THE Chinese, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed in 1888, are an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people, and dangerous to our peace and welfare. That decade, with its acts excluding fresh Chinese i...
NOVELS about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for a literary mind to care how often a ball makes it to the back of the net or how long it takes to sprint down a track. Yet that need not be so. The classic quest narrative-...
Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all...
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. 一位年轻的总裁，以...
导读：请记住请记住，生命中所有最美好的时刻都很少发生在你独自一人的时候。 It was 2 p.m., and she was running. She hated running. Loathed it really. She felt like it was something only masochists would truly enjoy. T...
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, If I could only see the world, I would marry you. 从前有一个盲姑娘，她非常...
如果你爱看韩剧，看过《我的名字叫金三顺》，或许你会记得一个片段：金三顺在公车站台读一首诗，还没读完，双眼就满含泪水。这首诗最先出自一位名叫 Alfred D'Souza 的神父之手。我们中的...
Old-school love letters between a young Richard Nixon and the woman he would later marry have been unveiled at the former president's library in California, showing the poetic side of a man who addressed his future wife as dearest heart. 日前，加利...
Of course, she wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only referred to her as My Aunt Fannie because the name always made my father chuckle and gave my mother cause to look sternly at both of usat me for being...
寓意: 有些人轻易相信别人的话，抛弃自己的长处，结果轻而易举地被原来害怕自己的人击败了。 A lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl, so he went to her parents and asked them to marry her to him. 一只狮子爱...
英国王位第二顺位继承人、全球最受瞩目的英国王子威廉，于2011年4月29日，在伦敦迎娶交往8年的女友凯特米德尔顿。这位准新娘虽出身中产家庭，然而在威廉面前却不乏幽默自信，面对媒体大...
