December 2010
3 posts
Stretch yourself
If you want to increase strength, flexibility or endurance, the method is always the same: test yourself, find your limits and encourage yourself to go beyond those limits. Providing that you are not overtaxed, your body will respond by getting stronger, more flexible or improving endurance.
The same holds true for other attributes. To improve patience, generosity or compassion, go beyond your...
Neo-Confucian advice for the U.N.
The U.N. Climate Change Conference is meeting this week in Cancun. In the words of Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529), a neo-Confucian scholar from the Ming Dynasty, one wonders if they will find their humanity or be blinded by selfishness, greed, fear and anger.
The great man regards Heaven and Earth and the myriad things as one body…As to those who make a cleavage between objects and...
