Glossary Archive

Peaches planted in the land of the Immortals; legend has it that those who eat them will live a long life and become Immortals. This means that when Cử Đa attained the Tao, he was rewarded with fairy peaches.

徳, Virtue: Good qualities, rules that people must follow. Virtue, behavior, intention, belief, mind. An: 1. (Noun) Thank you. ◎Like: “great grace, great virtue” 大恩大德 great gratitude and great virtue. 恩 Love. ◎Like: “love” 恩情 love, “love” 恩愛 love. 3. (Adjective) Having grace and virtue. ◎Like: “to save the life of a benefactor” 救命恩人 a person who has contributed to prevent death. 4....

"The fellowship belongs to oneself, the Way is the religion.The religion one is following. This is the voice of a master calling his disciples. The Master wrote: "In this path, from here on, you must take good care." Or: "Oh my fellow adherents, strive to correct yourselves" (Vol IV).

An incarnation of the Master. When walking around Luc Chau, the Master often pretended to be rowing a boat. At that time (1939), people in the Hau Giang region and throughout the six provinces (Luc Chau), especially Ong Chuong canal, people often saw an Old man rowing a small boat and announcing: "My boat takes...

An incarnation of the Master. When walking around Luc Chau, the Master often pretended to be rowing a boat. At that time (1939), people in the Hau Giang region and throughout the six provinces (Luc Chau), especially Ong Chuong canal, people often saw an Old man rowing a small boat and announcing: "My boat takes...

Bellicose, belligerent, strongly inclined to win

Filial piety is filial piety to one's parents. Among the Four Graces, filial piety is the highest, but to fulfill filial piety, people must know how to repay their parents, who are grateful for giving us life and nurturing us, while we were still children and needed the care and protection of our parents. But...

Fire Oxen (born 1937, 1997) are powerful, determined, and industrious leaders, combining the Ox's inherent diligence with fire's passionate energy. They are reliable, honest, and deeply dedicated to family, but can be stubborn, hot-tempered, and blunt when challenged. They thrive in careers requiring endurance and leadership.

Also called the Skandha. It means five elements that combine to conceal the true nature of a person. According to Buddhist scriptures, the five aggregates are: form, feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness. However, the Master now explains them as: greed, anger, delusion, cause, and self. These two explanations, although different in terminology, have the same...

Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng; Jyutping: Ng5 Hang4),[a] translated as Five Moving Ones, Five Circulations, Five Types of Energy, Five Elements, Five Transformations, Five Phases or Five Agents,[2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including terrestrial and celestial relationships, influences, and cycles, that characterise the interactions and relationships within science, medicine, politics, religion and social relationships and education within Chinese culture.