Category Archives: Liberal Arts
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
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
Natural writing and editing
This is a question raised in a Dharma gathering. I think it is a good topic to comment a little on. It is asked how to understand the relation between natural/original writing and editing (Not exact words, but roughly so). … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Liberal Arts, Random Thoughts
Society is like a big novel
It is a lot of fun to watch different threads developing in a culture. Anything, as long as it is truth, there is endless beauty in it. However, to be able to enjoy this big novel and follow it threads, … Continue reading
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Comments on Whither the World
http://libcom.org/library/whither-the-world I like this article. I agree with his view on capitalism and most of his analysis. I agree with him that capitalism is a historical advancement. A lot of things in capitalism can be justified. The real change in … Continue reading
Filed under About Software, Essay, Liberal Arts
Creativity, Business and Buddhism
During my first day of meeting with my teacher, I brought three things to him: a stone, a pine tree branch and an acorn. I asked him that of these three things what are the same, what are different and … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Creativity, Essay, Liberal Arts
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Thinking after reading Dumbing us down. No one can do a good job on education without reading Mr. Gatto’s books. Reading his book, you will have a feeling that education is the root of nearly all problems of our society. … Continue reading
Filed under Elearning, Essay, John Taylor Gatto, Liberal Arts, unschooling, What is Learning
Community VS. Network
Thinking after reading http://www.spinninglobe.net/lesschool.htm Reading John Taylor Gatto’s speech “WE NEED LESS SCHOOL, NOT MORE”, it is a different feeling from reading his other essays in the past. When reading those essays, my reaction was usually: yes, right, I agree. … Continue reading
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More on Milton Friedman: about free market and freedom
Milton Friedman was a freedom fighter in the sense that he argued that an entrepreneur’s social responsibility is to achieve maximum profit. I’ve been a wholehearted believer in that and also the tradition of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nation, … Continue reading
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The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will
Read this article from Viliage Voice: The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0646,ferguson,75024,2.html It is sad that such a person made such a sacrifice. From this article, “He was schooled in the Earth First philosophy of putting your life on … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Liberal Arts
On America’s response to 911
Below was posted somewhere else. Now repost it here. Some tendencies with which Americans look at the terrorism trouble me very much. Although poverty might be an important factor that people fall under manipulative minds, American government’s meddling in the … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Liberal Arts
On American foreign policy
Below is something I posted on some other site. Here repost it here. Well, here is a story you might want to know. It might provide you some more facts to look at when thinking about the issue of terrorism. … Continue reading
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On illegal immigrants
On illegal immigrants I didn’t get to follow in great details of the current debate on illegal immigrants. Here are just some of my thoughts on it. Or maybe “my doubts” is a better world. Generally, I think this is … Continue reading
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Everyone has a creative core. We need to dig into it.
Everyone has a creative core. We need to dig into it. In today’s nap, it was really amazing. I was making classical music. It is like what the novel Christopher has described at the end about Christopher’s ultimate music experience, … Continue reading
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Lessons relearned in another culture
I think I am about to be back to where I was before going abroad. Back to that height. Confident again that I can crack anything. Got my weapon back again. Having that confidence, mind will be more open and … Continue reading
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Life stories on a greyhound bus
I don’t know who you are. But I know you will be interested in the stories I am going to share with you. And I know you have the same beautiful stories you can share with others. Because we are … Continue reading
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Art, Zen practice and comments on Lung Yingtai’s articles
Note: This article is mainly a review of the author Lung Yingtai’s articles. But through this review, I put together how art and zen practice are related, how each individual should pursue his/her art, and how society should protect and … Continue reading
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Why IT/Software makes our world more human
When we are choosing the topic of the first CBSA Panel Discussion, we mainly hope to use this chance to introduce IT world to the business students. So they can have a general picture of the IT world and such … Continue reading
Filed under About Software, Chan/Zen, Cooperation, Essay, Liberal Arts, Programming
International Culture Discussion
After I came to this school, compared to my previous school, I realize that this school has a much better international community. It has a more friendly international culture. The International Discussion Group is one of them. As an international … Continue reading
Filed under Cross Culture Communication, Culture, Essay, Liberal Arts
Patriotism, stupid
“It is unpatriotic to accuse other people unpatriotic.” I was quite amused when I noticed that everyone was beginning to say “I am patriotic” before they were going to voice their opinion on Bush’s war on Iraq. I was also … Continue reading
Filed under Cross Culture Communication, Essay, Liberal Arts
