In the book, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions, Master Thick Nhat Hanh wrote: ” One of the main causes of our suffering is the seed of anger inside of us. Anger always goes together with confusion, with ignorance. Anger is born from ignorance and wrong perceptions.  You may be the victim of a wrong perception.  You may have misunderstood what you heard and what you saw.  You may have a wrong idea of what has been said, what has been done.   Every one of us must practice looking deeply into our perceptions, whether we are a father, mother, child, partner or friend. The Buddha never advised us to suppress our anger.  He taught us to go READ MORE

I am very naive politically because deep down I am an artist and liberal art student who had been a outsider with politics until couple of years ago. So recently Trump announced renovation of East wing of White House reminds me of the Fengshui issues. Trump as a expert in real estate and owner of several high rise and castles, deeply trust in the work of Fengshui. Despite criticism about the cost may be involved, it might not hurt to have the open-mind to listen to President Trump’s gut feeling in this regard. Besides, the country have wasted too much in many other areas anyway. The Chinese metaphysical masters accredit the destiny of a person, or a nation , to READ MORE

I stand for Religion Pluralism. I an convinced that true believers in divine’s principle can make the world a better place and life worthy of living, which may not reflected in GDP mathematical calculations, but do add to the quality of life. And to keep a society in order, the garbbages need to clean and the rogues need to put in the jails. And I also believe that for this very reason Adam Smith wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759, TMS) in conjunction with his Wealth of Nations (1776, WN) in laying out a distinctive set of views on politics of proper governance to foster a ecosystem of environment that national wealth can be accumulated. At a time when United States and READ MORE

I had been able to persist this far because many others end me the energy invisibly. And I want to dedicate the merits back to them by apply my energy to do goods for the society. Confucius says, the world belong to the public (天下为公）。 The western way of individualistic thinking is very limiting and narrow minded to such tunnel vision that can often blind people to egocentric fallacy and bad thinking. From my limited study of Buddhism, I learned from Lotus Sutra that even the most evil people has chances to get back to the path for enlightenment through the story of Devadatta. Devadatta, had for several times plotted against Buddha and even made several attempts to kill Buddha. READ MORE

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive Author Philipp Dettmer is the founder and head writer of Kurzgesagt, one of the largest science channels on Youtube with over fifteen million subscribers and one billion views. After dropping out of high school at age fifteen, Philipp met a remarkable teacher who inspired in him a passion for learning and understanding the world. The authors goal is to give an overview of the immune system and the tools it uses to protect the body. The author starts by contextualizing the size of the body in cell count and the size of the body vs cells and the size of cells vs most intruders. The scale of the body’s READ MORE

The Heart Sutra belongs to Prajnaparamita literature which illuminates true nature of reality which is beyond the reach of language. The essence of the Heart Sutra is contained in the well-known phrase: “form is emptiness and emptiness is form. form is no other than emptiness, and emptiness is no other than form.” Because of the depth of its insight, traditional wording of the Heart Sutra has obscured its true meaning, leading to countless misunderstandings concerning the existence or nonexistence of phenomena, and causing many generations to lose their way in 1500 years. Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Other Shore , which is a new translation of the Heart Sutra with commentaries, illustrates the point with a story: A novice tried READ MORE

The Banking System all over the world is taking the route of printing money to fulfill a fantasy that economy will forever booming and going up. Since the end of WWII, United States has playing the role of helping its allies and countries all over the world to maintain peace by organizing an economic collaboration with organization like WTO, World Bank and IMF. U.S play the role of trade deficit country to absorb the exports from most other countries. But as time goes, US has outsourced most of the factories and jobs oversea. Its harrowed out economy, and with its $37+ trillion debts can no longer have the capacity to take on the role as trade deficit country. United State READ MORE