Category Archives: general
A new understanding on life
Note: This is a repost of a book outline with a new title and a little addition in the content. Our science so far hasn’t developed sufficiently to provide a proper understanding of human consciousness and development of human society. … Continue reading
Filed under About Software, Chan/Zen, Computer Software, Culture, Learning, life, Python, Social Software
Why I am here
I came to the states for the cause of education/learning. I have identified the education as the most important thing for China, as the thing that will make the real change. I recognized that for the macro-environment, it is better … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience, Natural Learning, Random Thoughts, unschooling
Consciousness/experiences cannot be transfered
In Zen, it is well-known that the masters insist that they have nothing to teach. They insist that their words cannot become the students’. The students have to experience for themselves. Yes, the consciousness/experiences cannot be transfered from one person … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, Random Thoughts, What is Learning
Community vs. Networking Part 2
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Cross Culture Communication, Culture, Grassroots
The Outsiders NY Show
http://www.lazinc.com/ I passed by this Outsiders show at Bowery and Houston last week, and went in to take a look. It was really a great show, espeically their arts in conveying the power of commercialization of sex and war in … Continue reading
About the collider
I watched the 60 mins interview of the scientists doing the experiment of the particle collision in Europe (Large Hadron Collider). I don’t have time to read into the physics of the whole collider thing and thus I cannot comment … Continue reading
Peace: What is peace? How do we build peace in our world?
We human beings, like everything else, are just like simple objects, which have both inside and outside. Deep inside of us is an inner core. On our outside, we have an outer layer that is in touch with the outside … Continue reading
A Puerto Rican fighting the whole west
Overhead a conversation of a dinner table besides me. The guy is from Puerto Rico. He is talking about Puerto Rican here don’t want to learn English and don’t want to learn all the things they don’t know here. They … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience
A free life by Ha Jin: how lonely can you be
I went through Ha Jin’s novel A Free Life quickly. One of my purpose of reading this book is to see what he has went through in his oversea life as an oversea writer who accomplished writing in English. The … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience
No Chinese food anymore–continuous exploration of space
I decided not to go eat Chinese food anymore except when I am going with some friends and they want to go to eat Chinese food. For myself, I am going to stay away from Chinese food. Initially I was … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience, unschooling, What is Learning
What has always fascinated me
A couple of weeks ago, I joined a street canvassing activity, visiting stores door to door. It reminded me my experiences of selling Internet , spring water, toothpaste and so on on the street when I was a sophomore in … Continue reading
Filed under general, Grassroots
On self-help books and regrowing consciousness
This might be a little cynical. But I think there is some truth in it. I am sure someone else have said the same thing about self-help books before. What kind of people write self-help books? People who cannot accomplish … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Foreign Experience
Life is colorful (English)
Note: The original Chinese version is here. I am not satisfied with the English version at all. I cannot feel well with English. The original Chinese version is very beautiful, and I am quite satisfied with it. Life is colorful! … Continue reading
Filed under Essay, Liberal Arts
Language, Culture, Human Brain, and Consciousness
Language, Culture, Human Brain, and Consciousness Human being are social creatures. A large part of brain/mind is for social functions. In a foreign land, because of the language barrier, those functions are rarely carried out, thus those parts of brain … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, unschooling
Lust and Caution (Se Jie)
About half way into the movie, I was thinking this movie was just like its name, only lust and caution (a lot of hatred too), there is no love. Then suddenly I saw something like love sneaking in. And as … Continue reading
Filed under Cross Culture Communication, general
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
The wild thing. A pretty girl loves everyone. She is in love with the world. All the things that moral is trying to teach, most of them are wrong. It just make you more hypocrite. It takes a lot of … Continue reading
Filed under Liberal Arts, Random Thoughts
Something to help you learn about China
Oversea Chinese students like to put on shows in Chinese new year to showcase Chinese culture. I often feel it laughable. They don’t watch that kind of shows when they were in China. But here they felt those things represent … Continue reading
Filed under Cross Culture Communication, Culture
Language, mind, software learning, and liberal arts
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Chan/Zen, Culture, Programming, What is Learning
About human languages
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience
Immigrants and English
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 … Continue reading
