East Asian Philosphy & Cultures
To Understand others is to be knowledgeable; To understand yourself is to be wise. To conquer others is to have strength; To conquer yourself is to be strong. To know when you have enough is to be rich. To go forward with strength is to have ambition. To not lose your place is to last…
Read MoreSo glad, finally I am writing about the way of being sick, or how you feel still O.K. even when you are sick housebound or bedbound. Since My mother has been ill for years, now at a nursing home, can’t walk, wheelchaired, with hemodialysis three times a week, hypertension, so fragile, I started thinking about…
Read MoreThe Childhood Memory of The Heart of the Prajnaparamita Anyone who grew up in the Buddhist culture or family remembers this sutra, When I was little boy, my mother and grandmother took me to the Buddhist temple in the mountain for the special occasions; the birthday of Buddha or the commemorative day of the ancestors,…
Read MoreContemplation of Thought From Siksasamuccaya Translated from the Sanskrit by Edward Conze He searches all around for his thought. But what thought? It is either passionate, or hateful, or confused. What about the past, future, or present? What is past that is extinct, what is future that has not yet arrived, and the present has…
Read MoreI have been reading this book over the past 10 months, sometimes just sitting in my backpack, and many ideas and urges to write came upon me. Today I finally sit and am introducing some of ‘No Boundary’ exercise and believe that other people also will have the benefit or some ideas of ‘The self…
Read MoreNot knowing how near truth is People seek it far away – what a pity! They are like he who, in the midst of water Cries in thirst so imploringly ——The great zen master Hakuin  No need to leave your door to know the whole world; No need to peer through your windows to…
Read MoreTAO TE CHING – CHAPTERÂ 7 Heaven endures; Earth lasts a long time. The reason why Heaven and Earth can endure and last a long time- Is that they do not live for themselves. Therefore they can long endure. Therefore the Sage: Puts himself in the background yet finds himself in the foreground; Puts self-concern…
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