My YouTube Channel

http://youtube.com/user/beyondliu
I will see if I can build a good channel (so far by collecting other people’s videos) with similar focus as topics on my blog.
The channel below is one Sudbury Valley School’s videos. I’ve know the stories there for a while so the videos didn’t give me many new things (For me, it is really [...]

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John Taylor Gatto’s videos on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ogCc8ObiwQ
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=John+Taylor+Gatto+&search=Search

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Bruce Lee Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ0RF_QetSQ
I watched a documentary of Bruce Lee from Blockbuster which includes most of the content in this interview several years ago. Then I knew Bruce Lee is totally on a different level from Jackie Chen and Jet Lee. Watch this video. It is great.

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Mike Gravel for President and the National Initiative

I fully support his efforts. He is not just words. He is not just honest. He has action and the solution. Let the old man (in a very respectful sense) fix the problem.
In case you are not familiar with Mike Gravel, his one man filibuster in the 70s ended the military draft, and his heroic [...]

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Practice of No Self: Forget immediately

Quote: Forget immediately, then a new consciousness will arise immediately and inevitably.

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Parents United for Children’s Learning

The basic idea is to have a large group of parents organized together. They take turns. So every week, one parent will spend one day to either teach the kids some class such as music, or taking the kids to their company such as an accounting firm, a law firm or a news publishing company, [...]

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Practice of No Self: What you experience in sitting meditation will all be applicable to other activities

http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/some-words-to-help-you-focus-before-your-sitting-meditation/
But for people who cannot even sit  still and straight, I don’t know what to say. If you cannot even do this lowest activity (sitting meditation, which most of the time is no (mental) activity) well and move around just because of some pains, I don’t see you can do well in higher [...]

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Bhagavad Gita

After knowing my interest in learning about ancient Indian philosophy, my roommate gave me this book. According to him, it is a mythology 5000 years ago. But from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita ), the date of the book is debatable. It is also suggested that it was written after Buddha. Anyway, I feel at least it provides [...]

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Ha Jin’s Novels and Cross Culture Communication

Read of Ha Jin’s novel Waiting a little. Just talked with a friend about the novel. Now I feel it is better for me to just put these experiences down on “paper”.
I like the way he writes things. Very good story telling skills. When he writes about the scenery at the moments, unlike less [...]

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Columbia Students Hunger Strike

http://cu-strike.blogspot.com/
As I have read and observed so far, I have quite positive impression of what they are doing. These students have quite a lot of experiences of carrying out the peaceful strike. Their action appears to be rational and mature. Generally I agree with their views and think they actually have a quite deep [...]

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Being able to fight for social change in a peaceful way is really a luxury

Being able to fight for social change in a peaceful way is really a luxury. Just remembered this thought I had while in China. I was jealous that people in US are able to fight for social change in a peaceful way.

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Project Proposal: Web2.0 and Music Industry

(TODO)

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Practice of No Self: Always be fully awake

Always be fully awake whether you are doing anything or not doing anything.

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Practice of No Self: Once wake up, get up; Once get up, wake up

After waking up, get up immediately and do things fast. This will help wake up totally.
Personally I feel it is better to go to bed early and get up early. It is good to always get up at the same time. After you do that for a while, your body will wake up by itself [...]

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Practice of No Self: Introduction

Buddhism teaches of No Self. I will skip the theoretic reasons of No Self here, and instead emphasize on the practice of No Self. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of practice. For most of us, we live in this world, instead of in a monastery. So how do we practice No Self in [...]

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Project proposal: open project

(To be continued)

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Project proposal: help low income class in community center to learn by themselves

(TODO)

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