Positive News – Edition XXIII

In Rome, you can buy bus and metro tickets by recycling plastic bottles

19oct2019romeCommuters in Rome who recycle plastic bottles at metro stations can accumulate credits for the purchase of bus and metro tickets through apps on their phones.

Techie Quits Job To Teach Bengaluru Folks Soil-Free Farming in Just Six Hours!

19oct2019bloretechie“The yield is almost 3 to 5 times more than what is grown in soil in the same area. So one can do wonders in small areas too.”

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Man Accidentally Discovers How to Grow Coral 40 Times Faster

19octcoralsA marine biologist is postponing retirement until he plants a million corals, after discovering he can grow a reef that would normally take up to 75 years in just three years.

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Argentinian Gay Couple Adopts Girl Born With HIV Who Was Rejected By 10 Families

19octgaycoupleadoptionA gay couple from Santa Fe, Argentina, has adopted a girl who was born with HIV and reportedly rejected by ten families for her health condition.

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Chinese students have figured out how to turn a spoonful of sugar into 80 hours of electricity

A team of Chinese students have modified E. coli, Shewanella and B. subtilis bacteria to create a microbial fuel cell.  By feeding the bacteria with sugar, the fuel cell can generate up to 80 hours of electrical output.

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Zen fable : who are we to judge ?

19oct2019fable

When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.

Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.

When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. “You are wise brothers,” he told them. “You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave.”

A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.

Interpretation: We must learn not to write people off so easily. Expressing compassion isn’t always easy, but we’re all together in this life, so we can’t just help those that are always on good behaviour. People who commit crimes are often some of the people that need help with the most basic spiritual and human principles, such as what is right and wrong, which is what we should try and show them, without being judgemental.

We should strive to lift them up just as we strive to lift ourselves and those we come across despite their flaws, if any.

 

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