Friday, July 29, 2011 2:08:44 AM
now that i am back in China after my three years of teacher/coach/dorm parent life in a remote but close community school in Maryland, I feel, yes, there are crowds everywhere here!
now that I am back in China after three years of moving around in U.S. with my gracious friends' rides offered from time to time, I am starting to learn to drive a stick. It seems to me that the beauty of a stick shift is that i have actually more control of the vehicel and decide what i want to do with it. excpet a few times i let go the cluth to soon and the car stopped in the middel of the road.
now that i am back in China, i need to get used to getting in lines with a noisy crowd. but that is part of the fun- get to see different people within such a short time.
now that i will be back in Shanghai in one month. I ought to restart my blog about my SH life there. and see what the changes are and what's going on.
Great time to reconnect. nice to be back on my opera.
wenyi
Monday, January 18, 2010 7:23:58 PM
REFLECTIONS
PS; Sorry i could not type characters since i am using a computer without Chinese typing setting on my duty night.
In addtion, it might be better if i just type/ quote the following reflections in English since they are the notes i took from a Dao De Jing Study Group in Maryland.
It was a 2 hour experience starting with meditation, pure silent. Then a speaker talked about "Evil can not enter its heart" followed by interactive Q&A.
I brought my book Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu translated by Arthur Woley, but apparently the group use a different one. Yet I am thinking about reading everything in Chinese and look for different interpretations.
It was interesting to check out how this ancient school of thought is interpreted in America where God is all around.
Key words: Practice, Suffer, Sorrow, Ask, Appearance, Comfort, Evil, Love, Wu Wei
#1 hear the truth DOES NOT= understand the truth
#2 Comfort
-What is the loving to do in suffer?
-you need to comfort yourself and the others
-swage the pain and seek calmness
How to get comfort?
-love yourself enough
-open to resolution
-reflect on how have i been comforted before
-reflect on what have i done to others to bring comfort
#3 emotion V.S. compassion
emotion= ego consciousness
compassion= communication with the suffered= identify humanity= identify the SOLUTION
PS that is why the hunters in the ancient times worship their preys by breathing the same air while hunting and feeling the same pain while the prey is dying.--a scene also shown in Avatar.
#4 suffer-sorrow
-all sorrows is self-created
-It is a GIFT of a new insight and a chance to practice making CHOICES. So live with it and live through it.
-Resistance in any form produces suffering.
-stop thinking and your problem will disappear, otherwise thinking is merely a mental gymnastics
#5 ASK
-asking gives the light for the answer to come in
PS reminds me of An Interview with the Vampire when Louie was the vampire who always bear a question of identity yet keep up with the changes of times. and that is the spirit of all times.
#6 Life and Love
-life is like a diamond with facets which give different perspectives
-do not take actions until your heart speaks to you
-love= God=consciousness
-love=total acceptance of all experience of life
- all i have experienced makes who i am and what i am
-Life= play, we play so many roles, when the curtain falls and we get out of one role, we know getting out is a blessing since we now know how to get in the play
#7 Appearance and Evil
- just a concept= what WE make it to be DOES NOT= reality
-Evil is just a point of view from An Interview with the Vampire
-You Can NOT love unless you are not judgmental
-let GO the illusion
-it is a matter of how to use your self power, creating blessing/ suffering?
# Evil-Love- Wu Wei
- Do not resist Evil
-Evil can not enter its heart
-Achieve peace through non-violence
-Do not fight bullets with bullets
-Wu Wei= Non-reaction/ non-doing
Wu Wei DOES NOT= Bu Wei
Wu Wei= Kong= Yi= Unity= Ai= Love= choose to love= freedom
Bu Wei=be judgemental= seeing evil and suffer= choose to counter-reaction
In conclusion, Wu Wei tells me to 顺势施爱=及时行乐( jí shí xíng lè )
i.e. active love by identifying us with love, and embrace every piece of life with love.
Topic for next month: what are the quality of Dao
Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:42:15 PM
personal cultural experience
I find i am in quite an ackward situation now.
Being Chinese, we tend to hide our feelings and watch things happen. Yet in the U.S, people are quite upfront and frank with what they feel and think.
therefore, when i am with an American guy friend whom I enjoy spending time with doing stuff such as walking the dog, watching a moving or just making a simple meal, I do not know if I should open myslef that much and say something to him.
What do people deal with the 'blank moments' as i call when on the phone with someone, not wanting to hang off the phone yet hoping more converstaions?
Hummmmmmmm, it is quite a culture experience for me to socialize with the local people in the local culture after all.
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