The richest landowner in the village who made so much money in his career and decide to retire. He looked for the best builder in the city to build a house.
He came across one and the best builder who also decided to build one more house before he retired. Both seemed to be a perfect match for each other.
Both agreed on pricing and construction schedule.
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read moreThe scholar got on a small boat and asked a young ferryman to take him a cross a river.
The scholar started the conversation.
“Do you know history?”, asked the scholar “I am sorry no”, replied the ferryman
“Do you know geographic?”, asked again the scholar “I am sorry no”, replied again the ferryman
“Do you know fortune telling?”, asked again the scholar “I am sorry no”, replied the ferryman
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read moreIn Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o’clock in the morning.
The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. When he felt like eating he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime he slept.
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