I like the hell out of Laozi & Zhuangzi - Ekhard Tolle has a rep that's kept me away from reading him, so I don't know much - what you've said he says sounds useful. But how about more on 'where the material world & the one of the mind connects'?
@Tuna: I pretty much agree with you.
@Magnifico: So does this mean you start your analysis with the idea of individual egos as monads, which only connect like billiard balls? If I read you right, it sounds like nothing is possible other than individualism and physical force.
But I think it's worthwhile to consider the fact that your words & ideas are in my head & my words & ideas are in yours, so that we're both influenced by something other than physical force (and/or the fear of it) - in other words, an embedded sort of collective consciousness that we can't fully access but to which we all belong (collective consciousness is a dodgy term, I probably need another one - I DON"T mean 'God', though I'm willing to listen to people who use the term if they'll just try to be clear about what they mean (rather difficult with 'God' - an awful lot of people seem to me to mean different things by it, but think they all mean the same thing because they're all using the same word), but a project under development, with no independent existence or access that is not already embedded...yeah, sorry, I'm searching for words).
@A: tell us about the Taoism.
@Xiefei: sent you 2 emails, be interesting to see how long it takes for you to get them.
A: I'm okay on that, but I don't want to leave the whole project up to scientists, who start out with a materialist conception - good but, in my opinion, insufficient on its own.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Fearing 'commercialization', monks briefly close Jinning temple
发布者Because they may or may not have political interests in doing so.
Three sentenced to death for Kunming Train Station attack
发布者@Liumingke: I can think of ways you might disagree with me, but I don't understand what you mean by using the word 'naive'.
Life in Kunming: A graffiti artist's perspective
发布者Some nice stuff here.
Three sentenced to death for Kunming Train Station attack
发布者So that we don't become killers too.
Three sentenced to death for Kunming Train Station attack
发布者1. Would be nice to get a straight story.
2. Why is it necessary to kill people who break laws? Does this deter further attacks by people into suicide anyway? If not, how is it that vengeance = justice?