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Getting Back to Buddhist Basics 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
After recent encounters, I took a break from Buddhist stuff for a long while (that, and I was super busy with work lately). I was somehow burned out from my last visit to a temple, and just needed tim...
Heisig Method Paying Off 25 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Hello, While still studying the Heisig Method of learning Kanji, I have learned 700 Kanji (actually 699 as of writing), which is about 1/4 of all Joyo Kanji required for basic literacy in Japanese.1 ...
This Is Your Life 20 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
This is something I drew during training a few months ago (I forgot I had this photo): This was something the teacher taught us about work, but I think it is true for life in general. There are some ...
Is This The Buddhist Community Today? 19 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Just like Buddhist sects…. A while back, I wrote about my frustrations with the Buddhist community in Western cultures. I had a conversation with a certain reader, “E.K.”, who summed up the problem n...
Learning Klingon for Fun and For Profit 16 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
Hi all, I’ve been super busy lately (always happens at this time of year), but thanks to a little credit I got recently on Amazon I decided to buy a little gift for myself. I purchased a used copy of...
Basics of Buddhism 14 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Something I remembered from the Diamond Sutra (金剛経, 금강경) recently: All conditioned phenomena Are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow Like the dew, or like lightning You should discern th...
All Good Things Must Come To An End 9 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
This is a scene from the last episode of the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation. I always liked the part when Q said “but then again, all good things must come to an end.” Very true.
Sensitivity Between Cultures 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
While reading this article I found these two quotes interesting: The Japanese are very sensitive – too sensitive at times – to personality and atmosphere differences. On this basis they may discrimin...
Brown Eyed Girls PV: Kill Bill 3 Aug 2013 | 07:20 am
I haven’t done one of these Kpop posts in a while, but I really thought this one was worth sharing. Recently, the group Brown Eyed Girls put out a new album. Their first video is a video called “Kill ...
Confucianism in a Nutshell 2 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
Lately, I’ve been reading a book about the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, which was the longest-lasting Confucian dynasty in Asian history. The book is called The Confucian Kingship in Korea. The opening pa...
