Mind activities of a Stone boy

固齒神方 My sister just told me about this interesting remedy. I did a quick search online and found a lot of sites talking about it. Here are few of them: * one * two

I've been using chess playing as a way to kill time. Well, time can't be killed. What I mean is that I use chess playing as a way to avoid the boredom of waiting. In the Buddhism practice, it would suggest that I am just staying with myself and be with my thoughts and observe how busy it is, and I don't do anything with the thoughts. A hazard of chess playing is that it gives me a headache and tiring eyes. It is not very relaxing afterwards. Especially I tend to lose the game and out of focus when I play more games. So, it is funny that the more games I play, the more likely I lose. It is the opposite of a practice. Moderation is the key, but the chess game is highly addictive. Maybe I will play more chess when I get older as a mental exercise. I am curious to learn about which part of the brain is active when I play a chess game. Here is an article that I find on the web. Chess Playing Helps Reveal How Brain Works For release: Wednesday, May 18, 1994 Tournament-level chess

Thanksgiving is tomorrow! It is fitting to read an article that would bring our gratitude in us. :-) Practice Wonderment by M. J. Ryan, from Attitudes of Gratitude Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul. – D. H. Lawrence Recently I had the pleasure of accompanying my friend and her one-year-old daughter to the zoo for the first time. Her eyes almost popped out of her head when she saw an elephant. And when I gave her her first scoop of ice cream, her joy knew no bounds. Her little body wriggled, her eyes sparkled, and she brought out the biggest smile. The truth is elephants are amazing creatures, and ice cream is just as delicious the one-thousandth time as the first. But we adults have lost our wonderment, and so we can't appreciate elephants and ice cream as much. In wonderment, children are our greatest teachers. Wonder is a natural state, one that we often lose track of as we become numb to life. Since wonderment is the willingness to be surprised by life, and gratitude

I have been interested in knowing exactly what Jing, Qi, Shen meant ever since I was little. In the common people's language, it means the same thing usually. But, this ancient concepts of life force requires some understanding of it. Perhaps, there would be some merits in the ancient Chinese medicine. Here is the one good article about kidney that is supposedly storing Jing .

I've been interested in this subject for quite some time now. I heard about this magic 21 number before. So, I did a quick search and found this out online. I'll put this as a reminder for myself. Here is a related post from zenhabits "In order to ensure behavior change, experts agree that it takes a minimum of 21 days to change a behavior. Again, look at the date you are planning on changing your habit. Count ahead 21 days and mark that date down. Now, make a commitment that you will follow your plan for 21 days. Helpful Suggestions Your target date has arrived. It is the first day of your 21-day cycle. Here are some helpful suggestions for habit change: Write down your goal. There is magic in the written word when it applies to you. Experts recommend stating your goal in positive terms, such as "I want to be lean and physically fit," instead of "I've got to get this flabby body out there huffing and puffing." So, begin with writing down, as a pos

Nasreddin lived in Anatolia, Turkey; he was born in Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir in the 13th century, then settled in Akşehir, and later in Konya, where he died (probably born in 1209 CE and died 1275/6 or 1285/6 CE). Remember that Konya also has another great teacher, Rumi, that passed away there. I am very delighted to find out that Nasurdin's work is in wikibook. So here is the content of it.

"Love Needs Wisdom" by John Love Nick and Nicolle, I stand before you today not to teach you about the importance of love. It has been clear to me from the beginning that the two of you love each other very much and understand the crucial role that love plays – not only in your relationship to one another, but in your relationship to the world. My message today is this: love is not enough. Love is not enough to keep two people together and it is not enough to create peace on this troubled planet of ours. What love needs is wisdom. You see, love will flower of its own accord. You don't need to force it, or practice it. You simply need to allow it. You do this by tending the garden in which that flower of love grows. Yes, you need to be a gardener, but more than that, you need to be a skillful gardener, a master gardener. Master gardeners understand that the flower they wish to see do well cannot be tended to on its own. That flower is connected to everything else in the ga

by Jack Kornfield My simple prayer is that in all things I learn to love well. That I learn to touch the ever-changing seasons of life with a great heart of compassion. That I live with the peace and justice I wish for the earth. That I learn to care fully and let go gracefully. That through my own life, through joy and sorrow, in thought, word, and deed, I bring benefit and blessings to all that lives. That my heart and the hearts of all beings learn to be free.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman- a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth may become the Superman's. I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus

By "Derek Walcott" The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.