If we say sitting meditation is to wake up. Then what is waking up? When do you feel you are not awake?
Below is just my take on this:
I feel not awake when I forgot my past experience. For example, friends are very important to me. I spend my whole life making friends. But sometimes I [...]
Archive for August, 2007
About Sitting Meditation: what is waking up
Posted in Chan/Zen on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
More about space
Posted in Chan/Zen, Random Thoughts on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Space within, use the space within to follow the space activity outside. That is the space people can feel most strongly. Feel the joy of this space.
But each of us are limited. We need to use other space around this small personal self. Then we become bigger. To grow bigger, in a sense, is [...]
Software like buildings
Posted in About Software, Chan/Zen, Programming on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia has quite some beautiful buildings. I got inspired by them and felt it quite applies to software as well.
When I look at those buildings, I know instantly that there are a lot of complexity there. But I feel very comfortable looking at the whole. Just a glimpse, I know what is going on [...]
Pick up girls in Barnes & Noble
Posted in fun on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do people start to pick up girls in Barnes& Noble? Is this becoming a trend or something? Last weekend, I just stood in B&N for one hour and I heard two instance of guys trying to pick up girls.
One of the conversation ended like this:
The guy: we should get a cup of coffee sometime.
The [...]
Eric Cartman Gone Wild
Posted in fun on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For people having a hard time acknowledging people like Hitler has Buddha nature, you can think of Hilter as Eric Cartman gone wild.
South Park is fun.
Immigrants and English
Posted in Culture on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All this “immigrants have to speak English” thing, I definitely support it. I also think to support this initiative, US government should allow foreigners to be able to stay in US for at least one year without having to work here. Thus they will have free time to study English. All our [...]
About desire
Posted in Chan/Zen on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The topic of discussion in theIDProject these weeks is about desire.
I have no desire to write this article. But I am happy to.
For me, it is very simple. I am only doing three things in my life: learn, play, and create. But Mahayana practice means to understand other people and to help them. So I [...]
Raising consciousness
Posted in Chan/Zen, Random Thoughts on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Once during my last retreat, my teacher wanted us to raise our consciousness. He first described in quite details the love between male and female as a way of symbolization of plus and minus. And he further talked a little about the western culture and the oriental culture.
Recently I felt I was quite intimate with [...]
