I write this as a journey of consciousness. The whole thing might seem to be very strange to you. I guess you can just read it for fun.
I had thought that I might have overwhelming emotions when the horizon of China appeared before me, just like the last time I went back 7 years ago. [...]
Archive for the ‘Foreign Experience’ Category
Trip to China — part 1
Posted in Cross Culture Communication, Foreign Experience on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why I am here
Posted in Foreign Experience, Natural Learning, Random Thoughts, unschooling on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 to do it in America. I believe what I am doing here will eventually benefit [...]
Consciousness/experiences cannot be transfered
Posted in Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, Random Thoughts, What is Learning on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 to another. You have to experience it yourself.
What I realized after coming to US is that [...]
A Puerto Rican fighting the whole west
Posted in Foreign Experience on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 just stay with other Puerto Ricans. He, however, wanted to learn of English and things [...]
A free life by Ha Jin: how lonely can you be
Posted in Foreign Experience on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 oversea experiences he exposed in his novel is quite typical.
I spent a long time trying [...]
No Chinese food anymore–continuous exploration of space
Posted in Foreign Experience, What is Learning, unschooling on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 frightened by this decision. So from now on I have to eat American food (or [...]
On self-help books and regrowing consciousness
Posted in Culture, Foreign Experience on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 anything else. Yes, if you cannot accomplish anything, you write self-help books. People who can really [...]
Language, Culture, Human Brain, and Consciousness
Posted in Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, unschooling on January 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 rarely exercised, and might go into hibernation for a long time.
Even foreigners/immigrants choose to stay within [...]
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 [...]
