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A Story About The 12 Chinese New Year Animals


This is a story from China. It is about twelve animals of the zodiac: a dog, a pig, a rat, an ox, a tiger, a hare, a dragon, a snake, a horse, a ram, a monkey and a cockerel.


One day the twelve animals were having an argument. They wanted every year to have a name. 'I think that this year should be named after me,' barked the dog. 'It should be called the year of the Dog.'


'No.' gibbered the monkey, 'I think this year should be named after me.' said the monkey. 'It should be called the Year of the Monkey.'


'No, no,' breathed the dragon. 'This year should be named after me. It should be called the Year of the Dragon.'


The gods were listening. They heard the animals arguing. 'Stop arguing,' demanded one of the gods. The dog stopped arguing. The monkey stopped arguing. The dragon stopped arguing. They all stopped arguing and listened. The gods boomed, 'Can you see the big river? You must have a race across the big river. We will name this year after the winner of the race.'


So, all the animals lined up on the bank of the river ready for the race. They're off! The animals jumped into the water and swam as fast as they could towards the other side.

The ox was very strong and he could swim very fast. Soon he was in front of all the other animals; but the rat was very clever. He grabbed the ox's tail and climbed onto his back.

The ox didn't know he was there.

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The ox thought he was going to win the race. Just before the ox got to the other side, the rat jumped off the ox's back onto the grass and won the race.
'Yippee! Hoorah!' shouted the rat, 'I'm first.'


The ox was very surprised. 'How did you do that?' he asked, but the rat only laughed.
The gods laughed too and said, 'The rat is the winner. We will call this year the Year of the Rat. The ox was second, so next year will be called the year of the Ox.


All the other animals finished the race. The tiger was third, the hare was fourth, the dragon was fifth, the snake was sixth, the horse was seventh, the ram was eighth, the monkey was ninth, the cockerel was tenth, the dog was eleventh and the pig was last.
The gods decided that each year would be named after one of the animals in the race. The animals didn't argue any more. They were very happy, especially the rat because he had won the race.

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The Story of Nian


Our friend, Chou told Will and Guy this story about the beast, that lives under the sea or in the mountains, who often appears on New Year's eve to attack people, particularly children - however, as luck may have it some things frighten him.


A long time ago during the age of great floods, and when the world was not a safe place, there was a vicious monster named Nian. Whenever the thirtieth day of the last lunar month arrived this monster would rise up out of the sea or he would come down from the mountains killing people and wreaking havoc in their fields and gardens. The people would bar their doors before dark and sit up all night, terrified. The next day they would leave their homes to greet their neighbours and congratulate them on surviving.


Once on the last night of the last month, legend has it, Nian suddenly burst into a small village devouring almost all the people who lived there. Only two families emerged unscathed.


The first were a newlywed couple who avoided harm because their celebratory red wedding clothes resembled fire to the monster, so it did not dare to approach them.

The other family was unharmed because their children were playing outside setting off noisy firecrackers and the noise scared the monster away.


Ever since then Chinese people have worn red clothes, set off firecrackers and put up red decorations on New Year's Eve to keep the vicious monster Nian away.

The Chinese New Year Story - The Colour Red and Fireworks

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At the Chinese New Year red is important. People wear red clothes, they write poems on red paper, and give children 'luck money' in red envelopes. The symbolism behind the red colour is fire, and fire burns off bad luck. As for fireworks one belief is that the cracker jacks and sparks frighten away evil spirits.


After the fireworks at the beginning of the celebration of the Chinese new year, comes the more tranquil Lantern Festival on the last day of the festivities. Most Lantern parades feature a dragon made of silk and bamboo. The dancers hold the monstrous dragon aloft on sticks. Their coordination skills make the dragon appear to dance.

Why Chinese New Year celebrations use red fireworks

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Funny Chinese Sayings and Quotes


Will and Guy bring you these phrases, sayings and quotations translated from the Chinese to amuse and entertain you; perhaps you will find them thought provoking, also.


Success means competition.


An old pot is the best around the kitchen.


One must be available, alert, active, and adaptable.


If you have many best friends, you have no friends.


Mountains can move, but not your character.


Concern yourself about others more than yourself.


Confucius say: if you think we're going to sum up your whole life on this little piece of paper, you're crazy.

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More Chinese Sayings


A nice person who is bad-tempered and foul-mouthed is not considered as a good person.


Knowledge must be realised to become one's wisdom.


Love is not demanding but giving.


Our greatest enemy is not another person, perhaps it is our own self.


See who loves the other one more, and not who fears the other one more.


The consumers of time while away their time: The creators of life are dynamic and are assets to others.


Be patient kind and loving: Don't worry and don't fret.


One who always looks for excuses cannot progress.


Weeds do not grow easily on land grown with vegetables: Evil thoughts do not arise easily in a mind filled with kindness.

Another Chinese New Year Story


Eccentrics In China - Will He Do This in the New Year?

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A Chinese trucker has been fined for having a shower while driving his lorry on a motorway. Shortly after the Chinese New Year a police patrol car spotted water leaking from the driver's cab as it sped along the Jinyi expressway.


'We worried the driver may not have known about a mechanical problem so we signalled him to pull over at a service station,' a police spokesman informed Will and Guy.


The police officers were shocked to see the driver was wet through and had been enjoying a shower via a sprinkler kettle system rigged up above his head. His wife, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had been holding up a sheet of plastic to protect the instruments from the water. She told police officers there were rushing to deliver goods in another city and she had rigged up the shower to keep her husband cool after the air-conditioning system broke down.

Police fined the lorry driver and warned him he would be in serious trouble if he tried to have a shower at the wheel again.

Another Funny Chinese Story About a Truck Driver

A truck driver was stopped by police in China after having driven hundreds of miles with a sheet of cardboard in place of his broken windscreen Will and Guy can report.


Traffic officers ordered him to pull over after spotting him on the Jinggang'ao Highway in Henan province. 'The weather was extremely cold, but we saw a lorry with a cardboard windscreen and the driver had his head out of the side window all the time,' a police spokesman informed us.


Mr Li jumped down from the cab with a face that was purple from the cold. He told officers he had been in an accident in Hubei province several days earlier but did not have time to repair it properly because of his tight delivery schedule. He admitted to police that he had driven with the temporary cardboard windscreen for an incredible 400 miles.


Police escorted the truck to a nearby service station, and ordered Li to repair his vehicle properly before going back on the road.


The Magistrate and the Story of the Grape Trellis

In the first session after the new year a magistrate asked his court clerk, Xiang, how he got the scratches on his face. The embarrassed Xiang replied rather sheepishly, 'On the last night of the New Year celebrations I was walking in the yard, taking in the cool night air, when a grape trellis fell on me and scratched my face.'


The magistrate frowned and announced, 'Only a wife could do this. Have her brought here this instant.' However, the magistrate's own wife had been listening in the next room, and hearing this she stormed into the court. The terrified magistrate shouted, 'Court's in recess. Clear the court. My own trellis is coming down.'

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32000 Year Old Alien City Found In India Dwarka

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Dwarka, India - 12,000 Year Old City of Lord Krishna Found (Full)

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Mysteries of Modern Asia: Lord Krishna's Lost City of Dwarka Found under Water

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A TLC series segment chronicling the discovery of what was thought to be the Hindu god Krishna's mythical underwater city, Dwarka. Written, Produced and Directed by Virginia Williams. (2001) *Best Documentary, TV Asia Awards 2002.


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About Dwarka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarka

New Underwater Finds in Sri Krishna's City
http://s8int.com/water25.html

Dwaraka: The eternal city
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1205/16.html

The Lost City of Dwarka
http://www.epicindia.com/magazine/Cul...

Article on Dwarka and Shri Krishna
http://www.newstodaynet.com/col.php?s...

Another Article
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Dwaraka.htm


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Dwaraka, the lost city, which is mentioned in the Mahabharata as being gradually submerged into the ocean, was recently found in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gujarat, and dated at 3000-1500 BCE. This confirms both the antiquity of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, as well as the historical truth of the works. After end of Krishna's Avatar on the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended.

The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwaraka." According to Vishnu Purana - Dwaraka was submerged by the sea right after the Lord Krishna's Avatar. In the early eighties an important archaeological site was found in India, at Dwaraka, the site of the legendary city of Lord Krishna. Now, it is discovered that the whole coast of western India sank by nearly 40 feet around 1500 BCE.

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Married 76 years, Mich. couple die 12 hours apart

By Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press 7:41a.m. EST January 9, 2013


Son said dad never went to bed without kissing mom goodnight.


Story Highlights


• Couple was married for 76 years and had six children


• William Kreger died in a hospital after a fall; Edna Kreger died at home under hospice care


• Couple will be remembered in a shared Mass


WYANDOTTE, Mich. -- In death, as in life, William and Edna Kreger were nearly inseparable.


William Kreger, 96, a former mayor of Wyandotte, died Friday. Edna Kreger, 97, died the next morning, just about 12 hours later.


"It's like my dad came to get her," said the couple's son, Conrad Kreger.


Kreger said his parents met as teenagers at Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte. They were married for 76 years and had six children.


"My dad never went to bed without kissing her goodnight and telling her he loved her," Kreger said.


William Kreger served as the mayor of Wyandotte from 1950-1956, according to the city's website. He spent several years on the Wayne County Commission and the board of commissioners for Huron-Clinton Metroparks.


Kreger said his father also owned Coca-Cola bottling facilities and was a former publisher of the News-Herald family of newspapers.


"He used to go to work at 5 o'clock in the morning and come home at 10 o'clock at night," Kreger said.


Kreger credited his mother with instilling faith and a sense of honor in him and his siblings.


William and Edna Kreger enjoyed traveling. Their trips included Russia, China, New Zealand and Australia.


On Thursday, William Kreger fell and hit his head at home, according to his son.


Kreger said he and his sister, Gretchen Wenk, were at their father's bedside at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and told him: "Dad, it's OK to go. Make a place for mother."


William Kreger died at about 6 p.m. Friday.


Meanwhile, Kreger said another sister, Suzanne Smith, was with their mother at her home. Edna Kreger had dementia and was under hospice care.


Kreger said Smith woke up early Saturday morning and strongly felt the presence of their father.


Later that morning, she took a shower. When she got out, Edna Kreger had died.
"We're not approaching this as an event to be mourned," Kreger said.. "It's an event to be celebrated. As Christians, we believe life has not ended. It's just changed."


A shared funeral Mass is scheduled to take place Wednesday at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Wyandotte.


Along with their children, William and Edna Kreger are survived by 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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Phil Nykamp posted in The Galactic Federation and SaLuSa.


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Wanderer of the Skies - January 12, 2012

 

Greetings from the Federation:

 

What must come to pass is presently being discussed at the highest levels of your world governments, behind closed doors and through emissaries to the various other governments around the world. As time draws closer to the inevitable, your leaders are aware that they cannot stop the tide of disclosure sweeping over your planet. They know that they will either be swept away by this tide or they must decide to take the reins and make disclosure their own. Their ability to waffle on this topic amazes even us as we see them fight among themselves for a common ground. Once reached, someone inevitably backs off and the process starts all over again. We wait in the background for what must be done, if not done so by your own people.

 

News will reach you shortly about a “new” scientific development in the field of what you have termed zero point energy systems. It will be touted as theoretical, but in reality it is a functioning model of a real energy device created a long time ago and only now being released. There will be interesting developments in your legal field over patent protections. The “news" of this breakthrough will be carefully monitored by those in power to determine what type of impact such a disclosure makes upon the people as a whole.

 

The Queen of England has ceded control over a faction of the Illuminati to a group over which our allies have “consulting” privileges. This means, in the longer term, that this faction will be more amenable to the changes necessary to effect disclosure and the release of the cabal’s hold over the people. This was a negotiated “peace” that came about after many, many months of positioning on all sides. We are confident that this is another roadblock successfully removed towards the inevitable.

 

You will have noticed a slight decrease in the sightings of late although those sighting that have made it to your news have been of a more spectacular nature. This is about to change. We are now in another stage of the disclosure process wherein the revealing of our craft to you will become more pronounced.

 

A major meeting of all factions of the Federation has recently been held. This was a very big event, not only in numbers but also in importance. It was the final preparation meeting of all involved to go over every detail of the coming events, including the political, social, religious, emotional, mental, and physical ramifications of disclosure. This meeting was held aboard one of our great spacers, a living machine so large as to dwarf your understanding of construction. Although the physical space was not really necessary to this process as we have telepathically discussed much of these issues, from time to time, we convene physically to resolve issues better dealt with in that fashion. Among those represented were earth humans, who voiced their opinions about coming events and whose opinions were held in the highest regard.

 

Although you have been beset with many setbacks over the years, we are excited by the prospects of the coming months and what this has in store for all of us. Bring yourselves to feel once again your excitement for the times in which you have chosen to live and the manner in which you have awoken to the truth. Your thoughts will create waves which will act as beacons for the truth and this truth will return to you powerfully.

 

Be at peace.

Channel: Wanderer of the Skies

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12 Vows of Medicine Buddha


12 Vows of Medicine Buddha


1. I vow that my body shall shine as beams of brilliant light on this infinite and boundless world, showering on all beings, getting rid of their ignorance and worries with my teachings.

May all beings be like me, with a perfect status and character, upright mind and soul, and finally attaining enlightenment like the Buddha.

2. I vow that my body be like crystal, pure and flawless, radiating rays of splendid light to every corner, brightening up and enlightening all beings with wisdom. With the blessings of compassion, may all beings strengthen their spiritual power and physical energy, so that they could fulfil their dreams in the right track.


3. I vow that I shall grant by means of boundless wisdom, all beings with the inexhaustible things that they require, and relieving them from all pains and guilt resulting from materialistic desires. Although clothing, food, accommodation and transport are essentials, it should be utilised wisely as well. Besides self-consumption, the remaining should be generously shared with the community so that all could live harmoniously together.


4. I vow to lead those who have gone astray back to the path of righteousness. Let them be corrected and returned to the Buddha way for enlightenment.


5. I vow that I shall enable all sentient beings to observe precepts for spiritual purity and moral conduct. Should there be any relapse or violation, they shall be guided for repentance. Provided they truly regret their wrong-doings, and vow for a change with constant prayers and strong faith in the Buddha, they could receive the rays of forgiveness, recover their lost moral and purity.


6. I vow that all beings who are physically disabled or sick in all aspects be blessed with good health, both physically and mentally. All who pays homage to Buddha faithfully will be blessed.


7. I vow to relieve all pain and poverty of the very sick and poor. The sick be cured, the helpless be helped, the poor be assisted.


8. I vow to help women who are undergoing sufferings and tortures and seeking for transformation into men. By hearing my name, paying homage and praying, their wishes would be granted and ultimately attain Buddhahood.


9. I vow to free all beings from evil thoughts and its control. I shall lead them onto the path of light through inculcating them with righteousness and honour so that they will walk the Buddha way.


10. I vow to save prisoners who have genuinely repented and victims of natural disasters. Those who are sincere will be blessed by my supreme powers and be freed from sufferings.


11. I vow to save those who suffer from starvation and those who committed crime to obtain food. If they hear my name and faithfully cherish it, I shall lead them to the advantages of Dharma and favour them with best food and eventually lead a tranquil and happy life.


12. I vow to save those who suffer from poverty, tormented by mosquitoes and wasps day and night. If they come across my name, cherish it with sincerity and practise dharma to strengthen their merits, they will be able to achieve their wishes.


Extracted from The Sutra of the Master of Healing.

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