Posted in Random Thoughts on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A billion seems to be an important number.
When the number reach to the levels of billions, the richness is totally another level. The degree of life can jump to another level.
This might be why ancient India philosophy estimated that the age of the universe is in billions.
Living in a new culture of a different language, what [...]
Posted in Chan/Zen, Cross Culture Communication, Culture, Grassroots on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In China, the media is very much controlled (in a different way the media in US is controlled), so it is hard to get to know what is going on at the national level. You read the reports in the news. You doubt what really happened. You read in the news that there is food [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Koans are not puzzles. Koans don’t even have to be questions. Many Zen teachers out there, including many famous ones, have no ideas of the stuff they are talking about, even though they wrote a lot of books about Zen/Buddhism. Yet, they are giving students koans. You had better watch out for them. Throughout the [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here is the instant runoff vote: http://www.lwvpasadenaarea.org/irv.html
http://www.fairvote.org/?page=743
Another thing I am thinking of is why people have to vote in one single day? Why not vote in a period of, say, 3 months, or 6 months? If so, the fraud usually associated with electronic voting machine shouldn’t be a big problem because you would have enough [...]
