Right Thought Of The Eightfold Path

How a Family Motto Led Me to Reflect on Intention, Virtue, and Happiness

One morning last October, when I was in Korea visiting my wife’s family, my father-in-law motioned for me to sit with him at the kitchen table. He had a sheet of paper in front of him and was using his awful real-time voice translator app on his phone. “House happy grow up when thought vegetable is clean and shiny.”