Back to the now

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Post

We say we cannot change our past, but can change our future. I would like to challenge this concept by flipping it around: We can change our past but cannot change our future.  We can change our past What is our “past”? It is the collection of our...

Requiem for inner step parents

by | Jun 16, 2013 | Post

When we encounter negative emotions, the first thing we try to do is to cut them off. Anger, sadness, envy, hatred, whatever brings us down (or up way too high) should be treated as our mental disease/cancer/bug and thus be removed swiftly. Nothing unusual is going...

Talking = Listening

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Post

When we communicate using our voice, we either listen or talk, taking turns hoping we are dancing gracefully with the person in front of us using our voice. In many cases, we (okay, I) prefer the latter: talk. If I continue talking unconsciously in a selfish mode, my...

Art is about touching the universe

by | Jun 11, 2013 | Post

What is art? I long thought it was about the work. Then I stepped onto the problem of distinguishing art from design, and I just gave up thinking any more. Recently I started to think that art is the chemical reaction that happens between the artist (or his work) and...

It’s probably me

by | Jun 5, 2013 | Post

I left my corporate life several days ago. Now, every morning when I wake up, my mind is already busy playing with my emotions: joy, sadness, happiness, anger all mashed up in one piece. And it is usually 5:00am, a sign that my body is jumping up and down like a...