Came back from my teacher’s place.
The first time I did 7 day retreat, I realized I had a very strong self. This time I realized that I really have a fucking strong self. I guess I will have no choice but to use my strong self to kill Americans’ small selves. If you don’t want [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Go to see my teacher
Posted in Random Thoughts on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Meditation path
Posted in Chan/Zen on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
People talked about their meditation experience today. Why they started meditation, and the experience before and after meditation. For me, it is a little hard to remember exactly how and why I started practice.
When I was 6 years old, I first heard of the concept of death, and witnessed closely the death of a little [...]
How do you disappear
Posted in Chan/Zen on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reflection on My Schooling
Posted in Essay, Featured Essays, Learning, What is Learning, unschooling on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Note: this is a paragraph I just added to my article: the Art of My Life. (http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/the-art-of-my-life/). I think it might be good to separate it out as a single article as well.
As I reflect on my schooling experience, I did well at school. Except for some short periods of time, generally I kept to [...]
Rice Bucket (Fan4 Tong3 饭桶)
Posted in fun on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It cracked me up when I saw a girl wearing a T-Shirt bearing Chinese and Korean on the back. The Chinese says Fan4 Tong3 (Rice Bucket). I guess the Korean is the same word. And there is a nice cartoon of a guy with a rice bucket on the T-Shirt. Rice Bucket in Chinese is [...]
Lies and Truth in the movie Life is Beautiful
Posted in Random Thoughts on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s discussion of lie and truth reminded me of the movie Life is Beautiful. I watched that movie many years ago. I liked that movie a lot. I talked with a friend about it. She is a Christian. (I have many Christian friends. Some are very good friends of mine.) She liked that movie too. [...]
Doing things, learning and playing
Posted in Chan/Zen, What is Learning on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Doing things is our primary activity. Learning is only something that arises naturally in order to do things better. If you keep doing things, you will keep learning many things as doing things in real life requires multiple fields of knowledge, and the learning becomes deeper and broader as your activity goes to another level. [...]
