Author: Mauro M. Nakamura

That was the question asked by a company officer in Tokyo, Japan, to a young job applicant. That happened around thirty years ago. ‘No, never…’, answered the young man. ‘So, do that and come back tomorrow at the same time’, the officer said. ‘Yes, sir’, said the young man. The...

A man went to ask for advice for a Buddhist monk. ‘I was born angry’, he confessed. ‘They say being angry only makes things worse. And, actually, as I lose y temper, I feel terrible and I am sorry for hurting other people´s feeling, but then it is too late. What can I do to Read more

It is necessary to be aware of the huge gratitude debt we owe our parents. If it was not for our father, we would not be born; if it was not for our mother, who would raise us?  Among human feelings, nothing compares to maternal love.  We owe this gratitude debt even before being born....

The remarkable Japanese mathematician Dairoku Kikuchi (1855-1917) was educated out of his country. As he studied in England, at the University of Cambridge, he was the first of his class – until the time when he had to spend a long period at hospital.  The other students, bothered because a...

Many people think that the financial profit is the outcome of seizing opportunities, forgetting the others and thinking only about themselves.  We see very wealthy people that live in luxurious homes, go to very expensive restaurants and live king lives, but, when we see their faces, the image...

We believe in something when we doubt it. When there is no doubt, we say we ‘know’. A person that has experienced terrible burns shall never say: ‘I believe fire is hot’. He/she knows perfectly and has no doubt about it. Such certainty is not related to the effort to believe and not...

The pleasure of satisfying a wish is, undoubtedly, a happiness. Human wishes have an infinite form range: the wish to eat well, to dress according to fashion, the wish for a car or love. When one wish is satisfied, dissatisfaction and pain go away, and we find the pleasant feeling achieved in the...