Snippets
Short blog posts.
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Adieu 2020, Welcome 2021
As we approach the end of possibly the most dreadful year ever, let us keep strong, stay close to loved ones, pray ceaselessly, and light a candle for a new year that soon dawns, as hope and better days are surely ahead. As the adage goes, “what goes down, must (eventually) go up”.
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Snippets: Kindness from a small Kyoto gyoza stall owner
How can someone bless many poor students? With food.
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Snippets: Compass and Compassion
What does a sense of direction have to do with leadership in crisis? As it turns out, plenty.
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Snippets: Simple-looking is not simple, a lesson in soba and pasta
I do cook sometimes, whether it is soba, pasta, grilled meats, etc.
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Snippets: 10102020 – Taiwan, Happy Birthday
10102020，是蠻特別的。10102020 is numerically unique and memorable.
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Snippets: Tales of a young man
Once upon a time, a young man asked his parents if he could leave home and become a Tibetan Buddhist ordained monk. The top gurus of a Tibetan Buddhist sect saw this young man’s potential as a future religious teacher. At the age of 18, that young man already consumed the entire Mahayana Buddhist canon, was practising daily, waking up at 4am every morning to pray, was a vegan, and was adept in meditation.
