Do you believe that you are complete and have the potential to fully develop yourself? Do you believe that everyone else, the same as you, is complete and has the potential to fully develop himself/herself? If you do, please believe in it fully and put it into practice. Use your whole life to investigate it, [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Do you believe that you are complete and have the potential to fully develop yourself?
Posted in Chan/Zen on February 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dead Poets Society
Posted in Chan/Zen on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dead Poets Society
People are always scared of death. It is sad to think that we cannot smell any more, listen any more, and watch any more. But while we are alive, are we really listening, seeing, and smelling the moment? Are we living at the moment? Or are we actually dead? To live, just [...]
Wish you happy every day
Posted in Chan/Zen on February 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wish you happy every day
Today is Valentine day. I went to do the meditation. It was the guided meditation. The host Ethan guided practitioners to wish happiness for various kinds of people in their lives.
It is really a good method. It reminded me the time when I graduated from my undergraduate. Then we [...]
Where does the self disappear
Posted in Chan/Zen on February 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Where does the self disappear
Not in a very good mood today, and thus didn’t want to do anything. So I went to Grassroots Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine. Of course I think this is an important event. But I don’t feel I can learn anything since I was quite familiar with [...]
Maradona–He is the king
Posted in football on February 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
He is dancing there.
Argentina is my most favorite football team. They have skill, speed, strength, and strategy.
As a man, when you are young, you need to live like Maradona, fighting with your countrymen, with your friends, to experience great joys and sadness, to go through huge ups and downs. It is merely a choice: what [...]
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Posted in Elearning, Essay, John Taylor Gatto, Liberal Arts, What is Learning, unschooling on February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking after reading Dumbing us down.
No one can do a good job on education without reading Mr. Gatto’s books. Reading his book, you will have a feeling that education is the root of nearly all problems of our society. The education is to understand other social issues on a very deep level.
Brief recap [...]
Community VS. Network
Posted in Essay, John Taylor Gatto, Liberal Arts, What is Learning, unschooling on February 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thinking after reading http://www.spinninglobe.net/lesschool.htm
Reading John Taylor Gatto’s speech “WE NEED LESS SCHOOL, NOT MORE”, it is a different feeling from reading his other essays in the past. When reading those essays, my reaction was usually: yes, right, I agree. But reading this essay, my response is: seriously, I need to think about this.
It is very [...]
