Category Archives: Foreign Experience
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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