Seoul Diary

When you are travelling, you are open to new experiences and people. Here’s a Japanese musician I met in Seoul, Korea at a restaurant in Insa-dong. In between morsels, he strummed his guitar. We got to talking, at least, my Korean friend translated his simple Korean for me. He showed us pictures of himself jamming

Starry Night

Took a walk last night. I looked up to drink in the stars and imbibed a cocktail of peace, happiness, contentment, all blended in a delicious glass of eternal now. “That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” – Henry Thoreau. Yeah, I am pretty loaded, hung up on a bunch of hot air

Days of Being Desperate

Henry Thoreau, Walden (1854): The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. How not to live days of quiet insanity? Confucius says, Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day of your life. Well, if folks enjoy their work, then no problem, no angst, life’s perfect. However, for

work and meaning of life

So how can we see work, in whatever boring form, as practice, like in a meditation retreat? So how do I carry my attitude of peace/acceptance into a job? More practice, keep trying, everyday, fake it till you make it? No. I can’t. Because retreat is a withdrawal from the everyday place to a special

Seoul Diary – Work

Dongdamun girl lost in her own world, just like us. Does she want to be there directing traffic? Well, it’s a job and under this harsh economic condition, work’s a comfy blanket. Not far away in Taipei 101, tallest tower in Taiwan, pretty, young lift operators in the departmental store grin like marionettes as they

Life’s a bowl of salad

Life’s a bowl of salad, especially when you don’t enjoy eating salad and you are lost, not sure what to do with your life. You want to write but ‘fraid you can’t hack it. You are blocked, there’s no passion to write. Oh no, when you first left your last job, your aim was to