

It is human nature to want to be smart. The feeling is: the smarter you are the better life will be.
But being smart from the mind isn’t very smart, except to the people who put the stuff in your mind.
In my readings about different cultures, the Chinese culture is a good example of that kind of smart. For hundreds and hundreds of years, the Chinese has been encouraged to repeat, not think.
For two years I had three Chinese students live next door: no thinking, no emotions, was my experience. If any emotions were felt by me, it was the emotions of visitors











The pursuit of happiness pushes happiness away, like a snow plow pushes snow
As I said in my last article, life is drab, drudgery, boring, and meaningless… unless you blow magic dust over it.
There have been several awakenings in my life.
Freedom versus Liberty, thrivers, survivors, or fallen by the wayside