New Day: New Beginning

    Wonderings

    My experiences of living, and thoughts about life

    • NorthFork Vipassana – Day2

      June 3rd – 8 more days to go … more like 8 years… I’m in jail and being re-educated. I can only listen, but not talk. I thought of NgocDung and her 2 years in the communist re-education camp at the young age of 22. How is it possible for one human being to jail… Continue reading

    • NorthFork Vipassana – Day1

      Gong strikes at 4am. First strike, 15 minutes early. Second strike, better get your butt out of bed. Third strike, last call. Meditation goes from 4:30am to 6:30am. Then break for breakfast. Which is oatmeal with simmered prunes. And tea, soy milk, rice milk. No coffee. I’m definitely going to die. Now. NOW! I don’t… Continue reading

    • NorthFork Vipassana – Day0

      The drive took longer than expected, due to road construction. 5 hours. I got there late, but they didn’t seem to mind. Shaun drove me to my dorm, otherwise, I would have to load my stuff onto one of those 2-wheeled carts and push them up the hill to the dorm. On my application form,… Continue reading

    • Vipassana Meditation Retreat

      It was highly recommended by my cardiologist. When it was first mentioned, I brushed it off. Who in hell would have 10 days to spare going to a retreat. If people can take 10 days off work, they’ll go to some beaches off Mexico, or Hawaii, or Europe, or wherever … We’re living in Silicon… Continue reading

    • Một chiều ngồi say, một đời thật nhẹ, ngày qua

      An afternoon spent drinking, life so ephemeral, the day is gone  (TCS)… To be drunk, not out of anger or sadness, but to reach that state where you see yourself separated from, yet unified with, things and people; where you have another pair of eyes; where you become philosophical and question life and its meaning;… Continue reading

    • At war with the squircommies

      Remember the classic line in the movie THE SHINING “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”? Well, no work and all play makes me a killer. Every morning this week, I casually step out to the kitchen patio, a cup of coffee in hand, breathing in the sunlight, squinting at the beautiful… Continue reading