I might be wrong on this (I do recognize a sense of truth in their protests). If so, I will correct myself later. But for now this is what I want to say.
When you live in America, you criticize the American president. When you live in Iran, you criticize the Iranian president. If you want [...]
Archive for September, 2007
The Iranian president comes to town
Posted in Cross Culture Communication, Grassroots, Random Thoughts on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Language, mind, software learning, and liberal arts
Posted in Business, Chan/Zen, Culture, Programming, What is Learning on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
5 years of fighting in China, I experienced true love and felt free. 7 years of fighting in US, I am stilling struggling with many basic things. This fight has been so long.
In order to form memory, the mind is trying to reach some more solid ground, some kinds of conclusion. In doing so, it [...]
About human languages
Posted in Foreign Experience on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Language, however full of false/shallow concepts, serves as a very rich construct of human experience, which provides an immediate framework for mind to fly within. Losing the language makes the mind lose this framework to fly within. So the mind has to land and crawl.
However, if we cannot perceive the true human experience behind the [...]
Meditation just for peaceful feelings?
Posted in Chan/Zen on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For many people, their purpose of doing meditation is for the peaceful feeling. I will be a little nasty here. If your sole purpose of doing meditation is to get the peaceful feeling, you’d better just kill yourself. I can guarantee you that you will have the complete peace that way.
I will leave the rest [...]
Looking at the stars
Posted in Random Thoughts on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Looking at the stars, the only things that can connect me back to China, and shouting: Ni men hao ma? Wo zai zhe li.
Walking in Greenwich Village
Posted in Business, Chan/Zen, What is Learning, unschooling on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I was walking in Greenwich Village, wandering around aimlessly. Looking at people and stores, suddenly I felt free. A feeling of a long time ago came back to me. When I was in high school or college, I like to go to a new city, or go to the mountains, [...]
Doing activity is the only truth
Posted in Chan/Zen on September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Doing activity is the only truth (quote). And anything, if it is truth, has endless beauty. So just dig into the truth. Don’t be attached to anything, even Buddhism. The truth/activity will teach you everything. So when you do sitting meditation, just do sitting meditation. When you walk, just walk. [...]
What do you do in sitting meditation
Posted in Chan/Zen on September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Caution: by reading this article, it might ruin one precious opportunity for you to discover about sitting meditation by your very own Buddha nature. By telling this, I feel I am denying your Buddha nature. So if you don’t want to lose another chance to discover your very own Buddha nature, please stop reading further! [...]
Learn/grow, play/have fun, and create
Posted in Chan/Zen on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Learn of emptiness in the way of emptiness. Playing with the emptiness is really fun. Creating is the most fun. Creating is playing with emptiness in our deep core, and at the same time exchanging love with the world.
Long live true love
Posted in Chan/Zen on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Happiness and sadness, the same thing. But human life is for happiness.
No matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, don’t stop, keep going. Love story must end. Then happiness and sadness will be together. A new love story will emerge. Long live true love.
This time I will keep silent.
