Settling down now: what it means to our past and future

Good life always lie ahead of time. This also means life right NOW is always not so good. But the future is simply a manifestation of our mind. Sometimes, we are right predicting, sometimes not. NOW is the real thing we are experiencing right now. Therefore, to think that if I do this and that, good life will lie ahead, itself its a bad logic.

Good life is NOW! is perhaps the best attitude that we can take. No matter if we are broke or abandoned or faced scrutiny. We should live and enjoy the present moment. Enjoying our own suffering? Where do suffering begins and where did it ends?

Not to take things so hard, not to see anything as absolute, see the change in every moment, and appreciate any results. Life is just about change. Sometimes we lost money, sometimes we pick up a note in the street. Sometimes we make enemies, sometimes we make friends. What is important is when we look back, we see and experience every moment and we WERE there. Not to be lost in depression or losing the sense of happiness and who we are. We were there to face the joy and punishments, and the love and hate.

Sometimes, people taught us that if we follow the way, we will be happy. We will make no mistakes, no enemies, and no bad karma. But this is false. If we follow the way, we will do what is best for everyone at every moment. Sometimes we still make mistakes, enemies, and bad karma. But we face the music happily, as we know what we are doing, and we knowingly commit an act under the conditions we are given.

State of politics in China- from perspectives of elementary kids

3 school kids compete to be class representative. Instead of running for the good, they ran for power. Instead of arguing fairly, they resort to dirty tricks to destroy their competitors. It was surprising to see this in kids, I guess especially from a Westerner's eye. I myself had not thought of Chinese politics in this manner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7030725.stm

This shows how much culture can change the way an organization works. Also, it shows how things can turn out badly if one type of organizational processes, e.g. democracy, is copied in a different cultural environment without scrutiny. I think every cultural environment has a way to select the best course of actions and balancing power between different social groups. We need to see how that happens before we can truly say if demoncracy or other types of government is good for the country.

Beautiful music, beautiful minds.

There is something about people in the likes of Kevin Kern or Picasso. They produce beautiful images and sound, and allow us to enjoy them. But have you wondered, where do these images and sound originate?

We cannot by admire the minds of these people. Who is able to compose a set of sensory objects into something which our own minds can perceive and capture. They tell us our how themselves have felt in certain contexts. If a picture tells a thousand words, painting and songs spoke of millions.

In order to compose such beautiful images, we cannot but believe that the composers have heard or seen them before. Before their existence, in their own beautiful minds.