Buddhas
🌸🧘♂️🌿 འཇལ་བའི་ལྷ་ཚོགས་ཀྱང་། སེམས་ཉིད་ནས་འཁྲུངས་བ། // All Buddhas that one sees arise from the mind. // 所见诸佛，皆由自心。 Suǒ jiàn zhū fó, jiē yóu zì xīn. // Sở kiến chư Phật, giai do tự tâm. // Tất cả chư Phật mà ta thấy đều từ tâm mà hiện ra.
Quote Of The Day
You might have realized that this “Quote of the day” section has become a large part of my website’s content. While I was picking up Chinese again in my late 30s after dropping it in my late 20s, I decided that the best way to study is to translate some quotes that I encountered into my mother tongue and English on the go.
These quotes may be funny or related to self-help. What’s better than being a better version of you while studying? Have fun with quotes in 3 languages. Check back here everyday for a new quote. Enjoy learning Vietnamese, Chinese, and English.
Depth
🌊🤫🌌 ཆུ་ཆུང་གཏིང་ཐག་འཐུང་ཡང་འུར་སྒྲ་ཆེ། མཚེའུ་གཏིང་མཐའ་མེད་ཀྱང་རྦ་རླབས་དབེན། // Shallow waters are noisy, deep pools are silent. // 浅水喧闹，深潭无波。 Qiǎn shuǐ xuān nào, shēn tán wú bō. // Thiển thủy huyên náo, thâm đàm vô ba. // Nước cạn thì ồn ào, hồ sâu thì lặng sóng.
Fate
🌸🕊️🤞 བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ལ་མཚར་སྡུག་གི་མེ་ཏོག་བཞད་དུས་ནི། ཁྱེད་དང་ང་ཡི་ལས་འཕྲོའི་མདུད་པ་དམ་པོར་ཐེབས་དུས་ཡིན། // When the Bodhi flowers bloom, the destined ones shall return. // 菩提花开日，结缘日归来时。 Pú tí huā kāi rì, jié yuán rì guī lái shí. // Bồ đề hoa khai nhật, kết duyên nhật quy lai thì. // Khi hoa Bồ đề nở, người có duyên sẽ trở lại.
Coincidence
📱💦🍱 While showering, water splashed onto my phone, accidentally opened the food delivery app, and ordered a midnight snack. Just as I finished, the delivery guy knocked — what a wild coincidence! // 洗澡的时候手机上面溅了水花，水滴在手机上自动打开外卖软件点了夜宵，洗完澡正好外卖员敲门，你看这事儿闹的。 Xǐ zǎo de shí hòu shǒu jī shàng miàn jiàn le shuǐ huā, shuǐ dī zài shǒu jī shàng zì dòng … Read more