Never could the Great
Law of the cosmos be thwarted,
No matter the desperation
And evil of the Jiang Regime.

Zhou Dian lived in the Jianchang region of China during the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Nobody knew what Zhou Dian’s real name was. People just knew that his surname was Zhou. When he reached the age of fourteen, he suddenly appeared to go insane. He started to beg for food in the downtown area of Nanchang City, and he said many strange things, which people couldn't understand. People then just gave him a first name of “Dian,” which means “insane” in Chinese.

Yan Hui was born into the warring state of Lu. He and his father Yi Lu went to study under Confucius. After studying under Confucius for a while, Yan Hui said with a deep sigh, “The more I looked up at IT-the Master’s word, the higher IT soared. The deeper I bore down into IT, the harder IT becomes. I saw IT in front; but suddenly IT is behind. Step by step the Master skillfully lures one on. He had broadened my thinking with ancient and modern classics, restrained my actions with ritual. Even if I wanted to stop, I could not do it now. And when at times I have exhausted all of my powers, still something seems to stand majestically before me; yet though I long to pursue IT, I can find no way of getting to IT at all.”

Unusual and strange phenomena are often taken as the gods’ forewarning of calamities. A newspaper in China published a news report how a local family had recently bought a gardenia that could make sound like a cricket. I looked up Chinese historic records and found a similar story. But the ancient story isn’t about a talking flower but rather about a talking bull. I hope that this story will inspire everyone to reflect upon the current situation in China.

The gaze of infinite dignity draws my unworthy eye,
Compassion washes away the shame of sins gone by.
In boundless grace, good thoughts blossom and grow bright,
As selfishness dissolves in true awakening’s light...

When he was younger, before he attained power, Jiang Jiao enjoyed hunting. One day while hunting, he came across a monk. The monk said, “Please spare me some food.” Jiang Jiao had his servants bring the monk some meat. After the monk finished eating the meat and left, surprisingly, the meat was still there and looking completely untouched. Jiang Jiao ordered his men to catch up to the monk and bring him back.

The so-called Lynx arc is one million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical star-birth region visible with small telescopes. The newly identified supercluster contains a million blue-white stars that are twice as hot as similar stars found in our Milky Way galaxy. It is a rarely seen example of the early days of the universe where furious firestorms of star birth blazed across the skies. The spectacular cluster's opulence is dimmed when seen from Earth only because it is twelve billion light-years away.

Once upon a time in China, a man went to Jiao Mountain in search of the Dao. He sought the Dao for seven years before he finally met a Daoist deity called Most Exalted Lord Lao. Lord Lao gave him a drill made of wood and told him to drill a hole through a rock that was five-foot thick. Lord Lao said, “You will obtain the Tao as soon as you penetrate a hole through that rock.” It took the man forty years to finally drill a hole through the rock.

Emperor Gao Zong summoned Huangpu Tan to the imperial court and asked what methods he uses to cure diseases. Huangpu Tan then answered, “A heart with no pursuit makes the body peaceful and healthy. An emperor with no pursuit makes all under the sky well maintained and ordered.” Satisfied with the doctor’s answer, Huangpu Tan was led to the Palace of Benevolent Tranquillity, where the Emperor’s mother resided, to treat her eye disease. The disease was immediately cured. The emperor was very pleased and offered him many gifts. But the doctor accepted none.

The splendour of a morning at first light,
Sweet sounds of bird song greeting the new dawn…

Standing on a mountain summit looking out upon farthest horizons,
Sun glistening across the expanse of a turquoise ocean…

On a lonely stretch of the Pan-American Highway, 275 miles south of Lima, Peru, lies a town called Nasca. The town sits in the Pampa region, a desolate plain on the northern tip of the Atacama Desert. What makes this area unique is the Nasca Lines -- a spider’s-web of lines and shapes crisscrossing 250 square miles of bone-dry desert. Their origin and purpose has baffled scientists and laymen alike since their “discovery” in the 1920s.

On February the 6th 2004, as part of her university course, a German practitioner had to perform an original 3-minute dance. The song this practitioner picked was “Free Xiong Wei.” A Professor mentioned that because the performance had touched the examiners’ hearts, they hoped that Xiong Wei will be rescued from China and have a bright future.The examination panel awarded this dance first place for excellence and artistic merit.

Master bearing the lantern,
Guiding our way home.
A most resplendent light
Through countless winters,
Eternal seasons entwined.

What are dreams? Modern medical science claims that dreams occur as our cerebral cortex experiences changes. Yet many dreamers assert that they have indeed seen the future, or hints of the future, whilst dreaming. Some claim that they saw certain scenes or people in their dreams, and later on these occurrences did indeed become a reality. Modern science has failed to explain such phenomena. In this series, “Dreams and Reality,” we will describe some of the bizarre dreams that have been recorded in history but science has failed to explain.

From turquoise skies,
Oceans that mirror times forgotten…
Worlds rising, shifting sands towards other shores,
Closer, yet distant as further horizons subside…
Where sentient beings calling and hearts descend,
Awakening now in the night of days end.

By the fires of light only thresholds away,
We stand at the edge of time.
From depths of waters the oceans churned,
Until coldest winds subside.

Finding a true heart for every being,
Closer to compassion rotating falun…
Here, our cosmos unfolding.

Astronomers believe a doomed star came too close to a giant black hole after being thrown off course by a close encounter with another star. As it neared the enormous gravity of the black hole, the star was stretched by tidal forces until it was torn apart. This discovery provides crucial information about how these black holes grow and affect surrounding stars and gas.

How we shine brighter than the sun,
Here and beyond the skies.
To every world from many a heart,
Awakening together as one.

Once when he returned home from an imperial court meeting, Wei Xiaqing met his cousins Mr. Wei Zhiyi, Mr. Wei Qumou and Mr. Wei Zhou. Mr.’s Wei Zhiyi, Qumou and Zhou had each come 24th on the national government official qualification examination, and were appointed as Lang Guan (a government service position of the 6th official in an ancient Chinese imperial court.) They chatted for a while on horseback, then Mr. Wei Xiaqing said, “What a coincidence it is for me to meet three Lang Guan’s today. Why don’t I try to foretell your future careers?”

The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories" are also manufacturing brilliant blue star clusters. This galaxy had a sudden onset of star birth about 25 million years ago, which subsided about the time the very earliest human ancestors appeared on Earth.

Fa-rectification now forging through every firmament…
Eliminating, transforming,
The new cosmos is near.

The culmination,
Every step of our journey…
Unveiling,
Returning to our original nature.

One day an old man showed up uninvited at the party. He wore rags and was painfully thin. The ten friends were in a good mood and they felt sorry for the old man. So they allowed him to remain and shared their feast with him. After the old man finished his dinner, he left.

All darkness vanquished,
That masquerades as gold…
Of those remaining,
Myriads of worlds positioned within the Fa.

We cultivating, harmonising
Each other and ourselves…
Under the Fa immeasurable beings reside,
A future composed for wakeful hearts.

Worlds fallen into shadow,
Many aeons amidst collision…
Subsiding under a most tempered light.

Under watchful eyes the heavens turning…
From wearisome to a new found wonder,
Countless gods in the making.

According to a geology professor at Tokyo University, the area must have sunk around 10,000 years ago, that is, during the last Ice Age. However, based on modern scientific understanding, human beings were still primitives, hunting animals for food then. It is unlikely they would have been able to build such pyramid-like structures. Some people believe it to be the doings of some unknown culture. One may wonder if such an advanced and prosperous civilisation really once existed. Do these undersea ruins exist only in Japan? The answer is No.