Podcasts about Lin Yutang

Today, we'll talk about Lin Yutang, a celebrated writer and lexicographer, who masterfully bridged Eastern and Western cultures through his literary works and his pioneering efforts in compiling a Chinese-English dictionary, leaving an enduring legacy as both a literary figure and a cultural ambassador.

For many years, the Changeling community has longed for a better take on the hsien of East Asia. In our previous episode on their introductory 2e supplement, Land of Eight Million Dreams, we discussed at length how these fae were portrayed in... not the greatest fashion, and it's a characterization that the 20th Anniversary didn't really fix. But! The latest release from Hsienfan on the Storytellers' Vault, In the Realm of Gods and Dreams, breathes new life into what was a sometimes confusing, often cringey group of changelings, and manages to re-write many of the assumptions about the game along the way, both systems and setting. We had the opportunity to sit down with the author and walk through the book in its entirety. The open dev process used for its creation means that you may have seen glimmers and drafts along the way; now we have a 300+ page chomker in all its glory to digest. lf you've been eagerly looking for some thorough information about its contents, well, here goes... (Hsienfan's appearance on our show is also dedicated to his wife, Coco Vanille, without whose publishing prep and prowess this book would not exist. Forgetting to mention this in the outro is purely on Pooka, who is terrible at reading everything in emails, and missed this request. Many thanks from us as well to Coco for helping make this tome a reality!) You can pick up the book at the Storytellers' Vault by visiting https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/492660?affiliate_id=3063731, and here are some other internet places to check out on the side: The RPG.net forum thread to ask author questions: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/in-the-realm-of-gods-and-dreams-q-a-on-asian-urban-fantasy.922068/ Reddit Q&A: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteWolfRPG/comments/1f115so/in_the_realm_of_gods_and_dreams_qa_hsien_nostalgia/ Our episode on Land of Eight Million Dreams, for reference: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-54-land-of-eight-million-dreams/ And as usual, you can bother us via: Discord: https://discord.me/ctp Email: podcast@changelingthepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) has waiting been waiting too many years already for the film Moderate Trouble in Sensible Canada. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) journeyed into the West and all they got was this lousy T-shirt. Half of the poetry of life would be gone, if we did not feel that life was either a dream, or a voyage with transient travelers. —Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by old friend Ed Lanfranco, who lived in Beijing from 1988 to 2009. An inveterate packrat, Ed managed to accumulate an incredible trove of documents, maps, photos, and ephemera from his years there and from the decades and even centuries before his arrival. Ed talks about his collection, and invites scholars interested in his material to get in touch!2:46 – Ed's time in China and saving ephemera 11:47 – Ed's favorite old Chinese brands 14:41 – Ed's map collection 19:34 – The Tiananmen incident of 1976, Ed's collection of unpublished photographs from the Panjiayuan Antique Market, and a leaflet from April 7th, 1976 30:40 – Ed's patriotic music record collection 33:28 – Ed's U.S.-China collection 38:00 – The story behind Ed's U.S.-China panda button from 2002 43:18 – Ed's Tiananmen '89 story and collection of leaflets and files 50:56 – The Underground City of Beijing tour 53:50 – Ed's SARS 2003 epidemic experience and artifactsRecommendations:Ed: Roger Garside's Coming Alive: China After Mao; Lin Yutang's works, especially My Country and My People and The Importance of LivingKaiser: The Rochester-based progressive metal trio Haishen's new album, Awaken the Endless Deep See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today, we will talk about an inspirational scriptwriter who, alongside Lin Yutang, is renowned as one of the two best Chinese writers proficient in English writing during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first Chinese stage director to make his mark on Broadway.

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The UK's #1 favourite Christmas podcast is back for a one-off special to mark the turning of the season and the gift of a leap day as winter gives way to spring. This bonus episode ‘FAREWELL WINTER' includes:-       A beautiful ritual for bidding farewell to winter-       An insight into the tradition of ‘leap day'-       Ideas for celebrating the arrival of spring-       A peek into Japanese microseasons-       Some gorgeous words capturing the feeling of the season turning-       Our wellbeing and nature corners-       A peek into my brand new book KOKORO (which is out on April 4)-       An inspiring writing prompt and moreWith inspiration from Mary Webb, Masaoka Shiki, Alan Watts, Lin Yutang, Madoka Mayuzumi, Tadashi Terashima, Yosa Buson and Christina Georgia Rossetti.Why not take a walk this week, and have a listen while looking out for signs of spring where you are? (And for those of you in the southern hemisphere, may it be an invitation for you to notice signs of autumn).Beth XxHandy links:·      My new book KOKORO: Japanese wisdom for a life well lived (Piatkus) (or free international shipping when you order via Blackwells here)·      Get FREE access to my new seasonal writing sanctuary Spring Light when you pre-order  KOKORO from any retailer (Here's the link for Blackwells who are offering free international shipping). Once you have ordered it in any format from any retailer, go to bethkempton.com/kokoro and pop your receipt details in the short form there. ·      My haiku essay: The Life-Changing Magic of Writing Haiku: finding beauty and solace in a heartbeat sized poem For all show notes including book and article reference links please click here.

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker named Chester Fritz, who'd proposed after a whirlwind meeting earlier in Shanghai. Bernardine is then forced to find herself things to do in interwar China–and her husband isn't helping much. That's how Susan Blumberg-Kason's newest book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (‎Post Hill Press: 2023), starts. The book charts Bernardine's life as she sets up a theater, and makes friends with such illustrious figures like Lin Yutang, Victor Sasoon and Anna May Wong. In this interview, Susan and I talk about Bernardine, her life, and why interwar Shanghai remains such a compelling setting for fiction and nonfiction writers. Susan Blumberg-Kason is also the author of a memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. She is also the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir . Susan is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

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White Wolf's "Year of the Lotus" initiative was an attempt to explore the World of Darkness' various game lines through the context of "the East" with... uneven results. Changeling was not spared, and the last book of the Year was Land of Eight Million Dreams, covering the hsien of China, Japan, and environs. There's a lot of interesting material in this book; there is also a lot of cringey, baffling, and/or confusing stuff. We're joined by special guest LewCid for a wide-ranging discussion on Orientalism in Changeling, the ways in which the fae of Asia are presented, and whether we can redeem anything from this book. The hsien in C20 core are handled quite differently, but much more shallowly, so for anyone who wants a deeper game involving them, we do our best to tease out the helpful options here. (It is also the case that our podcast gets marked "Explicit" by default because of one error way back in the day. But we certainly have a few swears in this episode, because this book can be, to put it as mildly as possible, the occasional exercise in frustration.) You can purchase the book at https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/180?affiliate_id=3063731 if you're so inclined. Furthermore, as of this writing, it and all other Changeling books are 25% off on the Storytellers' Vault! As mentioned at the start of the episode, if you do stop by the STV to round out your collection, please consider supporting our show by adding our affiliate code (?affiliate_id=3063731) to the end of any URL on the site. We welcome discussion and feedback on this and other sundry Changeling topics at any of the several points of social contact we espouse: Discord (where you can also find LewCid!): https://discord.me/ctp Email: podcast@changelingthepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast/ your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) gathers strength from the prayers of functionaries sobbing over their virus-ridden machines. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) folds paper charms and writes haiku for the elemental alchemy of Camp. 不知周之梦为蝴蝶与, 蝴蝶之梦为周与? Bùzhī zhōuzhīmèng wèi húdié yǔ, húdié zhī mèng wèi zhōu yǔ? [Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.] —Zhuangzi, tr. Lin Yutang

Daily Quote For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. (Boethius) Poem of the Day Good Night Seamus Heaney Beauty of Words The End of Life Lin Yutang

Story 61 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie. When I was young, we were a family of four living in a small apartment. At the time, especially as a teenager, I bemoaned my lot in life and wished I lived in a far grander home like a few of my friends. My mother fancied herself a philosopher. She read Lin Yutang and Richard Needham of the Toronto Globe and Mail. My father was an army guy, a vet who lived for hockey and football. My mother had no one with whom she could discuss the issues of the day until I came along. Newspaper in hand, she would come at me as I was getting dressed to go out and play and begin by saying, “This is quite interesting…” Then... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 5 minutes 16 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (3MB) Audio copyright, 2022 Pariyatti 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' as a book and eBook can be found at https://store.pariyatti.org/a-lifetime-doing-nothing. More by Ian McCrorie. View more books and audio resources available in the Pariyatti bookstore.

In the middle of the 20th century, one Chinese writer began publishing books in English.It was a truly unusual thing, given that proportionally a lot fewer Chinese at the time even could speak English with much competence. But Lin Yutang was no ordinary man. Through his bestselling books that often sought to explain Chinese history and culture to Westerners, in many ways he became the voice of all that was Chinese in the Western world.

Nous sommes en l'an de grâce 690, en Chine, Wu Zetian, ancienne concubine, monte sur le trône de la dynastie Tang et s'autoproclame souveraine devenant ainsi la première et unique femme à régner de façon autonome sur l'Empire chinois en plus de 5 000 ans d'histoire. Aujourd'hui, on se souvient d'elle comme d'un tyran sanguinaire qui a plongé la Chine dans le chaos et le malheur. Une légende noire, sordide et captivante qui cache pourtant la pleine mesure de la complexité et l'impact de Wu Zetian sur la société chinoise… Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir la chaîne, trois choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 3. UTip: https://utip.io/lhistoirenousledira Avec: Laurent Turcot, professeur en histoire à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Script: François de Grandpré Montage: DeadWill Musique issue du site : epidemicsound.com Abonnez-vous à ma chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurentturcot Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Pour aller plus loin: Beckwith, Christopher I. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. Cotterell, Yong Yap; Cotterell, Arthur. The Early Civilization of China. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. Rastelli, Sabrina, China at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25–907). Skira, 2008. Eugene Yuejin, Shaping the Lotus Sutra : Buddhist visual culture in medieval China, University of Washington Press, 2005. Keith Mc Mahon, Sexe et pouvoir à la cour de Chine, Les Belles lettres, 2016. Quigyun Wu, Female rule in Chinese and English literary utopias, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1995. Danielle Elisseeff, La Femme au temps des empereurs de Chine, Paris, Éditions Stock, coll. « Le Livre de poche », 1988. Lin Yutang (trad. du chinois par Christine Barbier-Kontler), L'impératrice de Chine : roman, Paris, Éditions Philippe Picquier, 1990. Patrice Dallaire, « Une femme impératrice en Chine » [archive], sur HuffPost Québec, 8 mars 2018. https://www.huffpost.com/archive/qc/entry/une-femme-imperatrice-en-chine_a_23368676 #histoire #documentaire #wuzetian

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1802 Birth of George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. George co-founded the daily New York Evening Mirror with Nathaniel Parker Willis. George and Nathaniel also started Town and Country magazine. Nathaniel once wrote that George was "just what poets would be if they sang like birds without criticism." In 1837, George wrote his popular poem-turned-song Woodman, Spare that Tree! The verse resonated with conservationists. Woodman, woodman, spare that tree Touch not a single bough For years it has protected me And I'll protect it now Chop down an oak, a birch or pine But not this slipp'ry elm of mine It's the only tree that my wife can't climb So spare that tree   1825 On this day, the English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old witch, tough-lived as a turtle and divisible as the polyp.   The polyp Coleridge refers to is the water plant discovered by Abraham Trembley in 1740. That year, Abe was walking along a pool of water and saw what he called a polyp or a hydra. Abe was astonished to see the organism's response to being chopped into pieces; it would simply regenerate into a new whole organism.   1895 Birth of Lin Yutang, Chinese inventor, writer, and translator. Yutang's English translations of Chinese classics became bestsellers in the West. Yutang once wrote, I like spring, but it is too young.  I like summer, but it is too proud.  So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.   1900 Birth of Helen Hayes MacArthur, American actress. Remembered as the "First Lady of American Theatre," she was the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting - an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In her spare time, Helen was also a gardener. Regarding wildflowers, she said, They won't bow to one's wishes.  They don't want to be tamed.  That must be the reason these darling, lovely, little things won't cooperate.   While most people credit Helen's success with her passion and inner drive, Helen found the time she spent in her garden as restorative. She wrote, All through the long winter I dream of my garden.  On the first warm day of spring I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.     Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Garden as Art by Thaïsa Way ("Ty-EE-sah") This book came out in 2022, and the subtitle is Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks. If Thaïsa's name sounds familiar to you, it is because she is the director of garden and landscape studies at Dumbarton Oaks and her book is one of two new books this year as part of the centennial celebrations at Dumbarton. As this garden enters its second century, I see Thaïsa's book as a commemorative book, which features the beautiful garden photography of Sahar Coston-Hardy ("Sah-har Cost-in Hardy"). Along with the photography, there is a wonderful selection of essays that were handpicked to reveal the history of design in the garden and the significance of those gardens from a variety of different voices. So, this is an extraordinary book. If you're a fan of Dumbarton Oaks, then this book is an absolute must-have. And what I find especially wonderful about this book are the seasonal glimpses of Dumbarton Oaks that are offered by Sahar's photography and seeing the transformation at Dumbarton throughout the year is really quite special. If you're a fan of Beatrix and her work, then you know that Dunbarton is regarded as her crowning achievement and this book is definitely a testament to that. Harvard published this book, and they write that, The book invites the reader to contemplate the art of garden design and the remarkable beauty of the natural world. There are archival images of the garden that offer a chronicle of evolving design concepts. And the book also illustrates how gardens change over time as living works of art.   And so that brings us to the title Garden as Art. Garden as Art offers an inspiring view of a place that has been remarkably influential in both design and the art of landscape architecture.    This is a very special book and would make a wonderful Christmas present for yourself as a gardener or for a gardener in your life. This book is 312 pages of one of our country's most beautiful gardens with a beautiful story to tell featuring Beatrix Farrand and Dumbarton Oaks. You can get a copy of Garden as Art by Thaïsa Way and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $42.     Botanic Spark 1817 On this day, the garden of a Mr. Pringuer, a maker of pants or breeches in the lovely town of Canterbury, showed off his apple tree to members of the public after the tree blossomed out unexpectedly in the middle of autumn. Accounts say that the tree was lovely and full of blossoms.  The tree was a great curiosity to locals in the community and to all who visited. The papers noted that the garden thronged with people who traveled far and wide to see the tree.  Almost two hundred years later, our gardens still manage to surprise us. Take the favorite dependable plant that suddenly fails to perform and dies. Or the unlikely success of a plant that shouldn't have survived the winter. And what about the seeds that surpass the profile on the packet? Or the shrubs that spiral downward despite our ministrations? Or the flowers that defy the first snow. And to that list, I added Mr. Pringuer's apple tree in full bloom on October 10, 1817.  What were the surprises in your garden this year? My surprises were the lone apple that appeared on one of my newly planted apple trees in my mini orchard. The young tree seemed barely strong enough to support it. Another surprise was the death of all five hydrangeas in the front garden at Maple Grove. It was just too hot this summer. A new vigorous development was string algae in the water features. It was a worthy adversary and near impossible to eliminate. A final surprise was the hoped-for joy I experienced weeding the front garden at the cabin. After adding the sunken path, the garden is elevated, so there is no more stooping or digging for weeds between boulders. Now it is a joy to tend that large 40 x 12-foot bed.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Savage returns to one of the most significant books of his life in the wisdom of Lin Yutang. Waxing philosophical, he shares from The Importance of Living, and discloses his own description of happiness. Unlike any sermon you've heard before, hear Savage's latest Sunday Sermon on art, food, and film including The Sopranos and the film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Quote For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. (Boethius) Poem of the Day Good Night Seamus Heaney Beauty of Words The End of Life Lin Yutang

Scott and Julian reflect on the classic Doctor and the stories they have discussed. Do they think they all hold up? Weird Studies: https://www.weirdstudies.com/The importance of Living by Lin Yutang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_YutangPatreon: www.patreon.com/20cgmedia

Would you like to receive a daily, random quote by email from my Little Box of Quotes?https://constantine.name/lboqA long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms. I kept them on the first version of my web site, where they were displayed randomly. But as time went on, I realized I wanted them where I would see them. Eventually I copied the fledgeling collection onto 3×5 cards and put them in a small box. As I find new ones, I add cards. Today, there are nearly 1,000 quotes and the collection continues to grow.My mission is creating better conversations to spread understanding and compassion. This podcast is a small part of what I do. Drop by https://constantine.name for my weekly email, podcasts, writing and more.

Would you like to receive a daily, random quote by email from my Little Box of Quotes? https://constantine.name/lboq A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms. I kept them on the first version of my web site, where they were displayed randomly. But as time went on, I realized I wanted them where I would see them. Eventually I copied the fledgeling collection onto 3×5 cards and put them in a small box. As I find new ones, I add cards. Today, there are more than 1,000 quotes and the collection continues to grow. Hello, I'm Craig Constantine

welcome to part two of the silent war series! in part one, we discussed the 5 pieces of spiritual armor that protect us from soul strangle. in today's episode we will take a deeper dive into two potent divine weapons; spiritual tools that blast away soul enemies [fear, doubt, control, etc.] if you have not yet listened to part one, you can do so here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kIrsZW5ED3FzodQl411Og Related Episodes: Beef Up Your Brain's Immune System https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XiFR5vixmsgwAh8ljykd8 Recommended Reading: The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz https://bookshop.org/books/the-four-agreements-a-practical-guide-to-personal-freedom-9781878424310/9781878424310?aid=20527&listref=personal-spiritual-development-cbc04339-31b1-46de-afe7-d4cd0556bd48 The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang https://bookshop.org/books/the-importance-of-living-9780688163525/9780688163525?aid=20527&listref=personal-spiritual-development-cbc04339-31b1-46de-afe7-d4cd0556bd48 follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/mindflowers888 to unlock access for all my secret masterclasses, click here: https://anchor.fm/mindflowers/subscribe after you subscribe, there will be a link that allows you to listen to the secret episodes using any podcast platform you prefer.

we are in a war right now. it's not a one you can perceive with your five senses -- only the sixth one. the battlefield takes place in the mind but it's felt in the stomach. in our tightened chests and aching backs. it's a war on your soul, a war designed to make you forget. it's designed to distract you from your mission. tap into this preview episode to learn how to stay safe in these spirit streets

we are in a war right now. it's not a one you can perceive with your five senses -- only the sixth one. the battlefield takes place in the mind but it's felt in the stomach. in our tightened chests and aching backs. it's a war on your soul, a war designed to make you forget. it's designed to distract you from your mission. tap into this preview episode to learn how to stay safe in these spirit streets

In a recent NewsMax TV appearance, Savage produced an antique mariner's telescope and demonstrated how Joe Biden is not only looking through it the wrong way, he doesn't even realize that the cap is still on! A fitting metaphor for a Presidency marked by short-sightedness and stupidity. In this podcast, Savage relates America today to the Lewis Carroll story we all know as "Alice in Wonderland" (originally titled "Through the Looking Glass"), in a world where everything is backwards. Economic collapse is a "boom", foreign policy failure is a success, 15000 Haitians massed on the border is not a crisis. In times like this, we turn to God and faith to help us see the larger picture and draw comfort from the wisdom of the ages. Savage reads from his 2017 book "God Faith and Reason." He also speaks of loss, how we all encounter it from time to time as Trump did in 2020, but need not buckle under it. Rather we resolve to fight even harder tomorrow. The show wraps up with reading from Lin Yutang's "The Importance of Living" which is about finding happiness in everyday things. An inspiring podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ideas & Insights Thoughts out loud. A way to think ideas into solutions. What is your Relationship with Nature? What do you do to reset? Cypress Hill Black Sunday (1993) Little League Movie Overviews - Letterboxd List: https://boxd.it/cJzEE The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang (1937) Be kind - Stay in control Read more books, stay amazing podcastjebuth.com https://letterboxd.com/iota_arcane/ #podcast #talkshow #radioshow #VLOG

In this China History Podcast episode, Laszlo teams up with Rob Moore and Lee Moore (no relation) from The Chinese Literature Podcast to explore the life and work of the highly influential writer Lin Yutang. Though rather unknown in our day, there was a time when Lin Yutang was the most recognizable name in the West who wrote and spoke about China. This episode explores his early years and later literary and political achievements during the 1930s to 1970s. Chinese Literature Podcast Website: https://www.chineseliteraturepodcast.com/ Subscribe to the Chinese Literature Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-literature-podcast/id1102235260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this China History Podcast episode, Laszlo teams up with Rob Moore and Lee Moore (no relation) from The Chinese Literature Podcast to explore the life and work of the highly influential writer Lin Yutang. Though rather unknown in our day, there was a time when Lin Yutang was the most recognizable name in the West who wrote and spoke about China. This episode explores his early years and later literary and political achievements during the 1930s to 1970s. Links to the Chinese Literature Podcast at the show notes

Henri Bergson define al sentido común como "la facultad para orientarse en la vida práctica"1​. E. Mora-Anda dice que el sentido común nos ahorra tonterías: calcula lo probable y lo improbable, lo razonable y lo absurdo. No se atiene a reglas, sino a lo que puede funcionar; no es perfeccionista, sino que prefiere "lo razonable", también analizado por Lin Yutang en "La Importancia de Vivir". Para Trout y Rivkin, el sentido común es una facultad esencial de la persona: «una facultad que posee la generalidad de las personas, para juzgar razonablemente las cosas». Yash, Hipat Roses e Imeld lo definen como «el don provisto para saber distinguir todo lo que nos rodea: el bien, el mal, la razón y la ignorancia.».2​ De una manera más sencilla, se comprende por sentido común a una manera de no pensar y de no analizar crítica o científicamente hechos y fenómenos de la sociedad, dados como naturales y concretos sin investigaciones metodológicas previas3​. Al aceptar estos hechos sin argumentos, escapan al rigor científico y a toda clase de análisis críticos.4​ Dado que lo «común» (a diferencia de los cinco sentidos establecidos), no es parte de lo cognitivo (natural), sino una construcción social. El sentido común es la antítesis al pensamiento crítico. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/guillermoguz/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/guillermoguz/support

'O thou city that surpasseth our understanding! How impressive are they emptiness, and thy commonness, and thy bad taste!' In the thirty eighth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Hymn to Shanghai (上海之歌 / Shànghǎi Zhīgē), a piece by 'the little critic' himself, Lin Yutang. Joining me to pick apart Lin's biblical condemnation is the roguish raconteur and historian of Old Shanghai, Paul French. Expect to hear a lot about the virtues of liberal cosmopolitanism and the evils of Art Deco and gin liqueur.   // NEWS ITEMS // Yen Ooi's article in the SFRA review - Chinese Science Fiction: A Genre of Adversity The Three Body Problem gets picked up by Netflix a cool book I only just learned exists: Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung   // WORD OF THE DAY // (黄包车 / huáng bāo chē / rickshaw)   // MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE // Little Tokyo in Old Shanghai Do Bedbugs Exist in China? by Lin Yutang Lin Yutang's Chinese typewriter Extraterritoriality in China Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927) Man's Fate by Andre Malraux Shanghai by Yokomitsu Riichi Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui The XXth Century - the Nazi magazine that Eileen Chang got her start in   // Handy TrChFic Links // Buy Me a Coffee Bonus Shows on Patreon  The TrChFic Map INSTAGRAM // TWITTER // DISCORD // MY SITE

Many consider Hope to be essential for sustaining social movements where change is slow, setbacks are frequent, and the odds aren't good. As Rebecca Solnit once wrote, "To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” But when it comes to the existential threats of climate change and mass extinction, what if hope is part of the problem? What if it obscures the enormity of our crisis, or makes us complacent, allowing the public to defer responsibility onto other people or the future? When you look at the scale of our climate emergency and the inadequacy of society's response, hope can feel like a throwaway term, a cheap neon sign we dutifully switch on at the end of climate rallies. But those reservations about hope are not the whole story. Research shows that environmental discourse has long fueled public hopelessness by perpetuating apocalyptic narratives and the sense that it's already "too late" to act. That hopelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as those who believe we're already doomed -- or that solutions don't exist -- chose *not* to act, thus ensuring the very outcome they imagined. Episode 5 explores the complicated role of hope in the fight for a livable planet, and the different forms it takes in environmental debates: hope as complacency or "cruel optimism" (a secular religion that keeps the public in line), as well as more subversive versions like "active hope," "intrinsic hope," and "critical hope." “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." ― Rebecca SolnitWritten and narrated by Jennifer AtkinsonMusic by Roberto David RusconiProduced by Intrasonus UKSupported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council EnglandDr. Jennifer Atkinson is a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, where she leads seminars that help students cope with the despair, anger, and anxiety that arise from environmental loss and mass extinction. Her teaching and research have helped activists, scientists, and students build resilience to stay engaged in climate solutions and avoid burnout. She has also spoken to audiences across the U.S. about the global mental health crisis arising from climate disruption, and advocated for addressing emotional impacts in the fight for environmental justice. This episode introduces some of the experiences and insights behind that work, and explores how we can move the public to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.References and Further Reading:Jason Box tweet: If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist. Vice, August 1, 2014.What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction? Stanford Earth, Dec 06, 2018. Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches. Emily Dickinson. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314) Mary Heglar. Home is always worth it. Sept 2019. Greta Thunberg. "Our house is on fire." Jan 25, 2019. Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. 2011. Hua Hsu. Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. Mar 25, 2019. Tommy Lynch. Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change. July 25, 2017. Derrick Jensen. "Beyond Hope." 2006. Michael Nelson. "To a Future Without Hope." 2010. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. Active Hope. 2012. Lin Yutang. In Visions from Earth, 2004. Lisa Kretz. "Hope in Environmental Philosophy." 2012. Elin Kelsey. "Propagating Collective Hope in the Midst of Environmental Doom and Gloom." 2016. Rainer Maria Rilke. “Go to the Limits of Your Longing.” Elin Kelsey. Climate Change: A Crisis of Hope. June 2020 Emily Johnson. Loving a vanishing world. May 9, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many consider Hope to be essential for sustaining social movements where change is slow, setbacks are frequent, and the odds aren't good. As Rebecca Solnit once wrote, "To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” But when it comes to the existential threats of climate change and mass extinction, what if hope is part of the problem? What if it obscures the enormity of our crisis, or makes us complacent, allowing the public to defer responsibility onto other people or the future? When you look at the scale of our climate emergency and the inadequacy of society's response, hope can feel like a throwaway term, a cheap neon sign we dutifully switch on at the end of climate rallies. But those reservations about hope are not the whole story. Research shows that environmental discourse has long fueled public hopelessness by perpetuating apocalyptic narratives and the sense that it's already "too late" to act. That hopelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as those who believe we're already doomed -- or that solutions don't exist -- chose *not* to act, thus ensuring the very outcome they imagined. Episode 5 explores the complicated role of hope in the fight for a livable planet, and the different forms it takes in environmental debates: hope as complacency or "cruel optimism" (a secular religion that keeps the public in line), as well as more subversive versions like "active hope," "intrinsic hope," and "critical hope." “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." ― Rebecca SolnitWritten and narrated by Jennifer AtkinsonMusic by Roberto David RusconiProduced by Intrasonus UKSupported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council EnglandDr. Jennifer Atkinson is a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, where she leads seminars that help students cope with the despair, anger, and anxiety that arise from environmental loss and mass extinction. Her teaching and research have helped activists, scientists, and students build resilience to stay engaged in climate solutions and avoid burnout. She has also spoken to audiences across the U.S. about the global mental health crisis arising from climate disruption, and advocated for addressing emotional impacts in the fight for environmental justice. This episode introduces some of the experiences and insights behind that work, and explores how we can move the public to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.References and Further Reading:Jason Box tweet: If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist. Vice, August 1, 2014.What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction? Stanford Earth, Dec 06, 2018. Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches. Emily Dickinson. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314) Mary Heglar. Home is always worth it. Sept 2019. Greta Thunberg. "Our house is on fire." Jan 25, 2019. Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. 2011. Hua Hsu. Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. Mar 25, 2019. Tommy Lynch. Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change. July 25, 2017. Derrick Jensen. "Beyond Hope." 2006. Michael Nelson. "To a Future Without Hope." 2010. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. Active Hope. 2012. Lin Yutang. In Visions from Earth, 2004. Lisa Kretz. "Hope in Environmental Philosophy." 2012. Elin Kelsey. "Propagating Collective Hope in the Midst of Environmental Doom and Gloom." 2016. Rainer Maria Rilke. “Go to the Limits of Your Longing.” Elin Kelsey. Climate Change: A Crisis of Hope. June 2020 Emily Johnson. Loving a vanishing world. May 9, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man can reason away." This line from a Doobie Brothers song is probably one of the most profound in the history of rock-'n'-roll. It is profound for all the reasons (or unreasons) explored in this discussion, which lasers in on just one of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck, that of the Fool. The Fool is integral to the world, yet stands outside it. The Fool is an idiot but also a sage. The Fool does not know; s/he intuits, improvises a path through the brambles of existence. We intend this episode on the Fool to be the first in an occasional series covering all twenty-two of the major trumps of the Tarot of Marseilles. REFERENCES The Fool (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Jean_Dodal_Tarot_trump_Fool.jpg) in the tarot St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians) Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism (https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Tarot-Journey-Christian-Hermeticism-ebook/dp/B00B1FG9PI) Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (http://www.thule-italia.net/esoterismo/Aleister%20Crowley/Aleister%20Crowley%20-%20The%20book%20of%20Thoth.pdf) Plato, Phaedrus (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html) Weird Studies episode 60 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/60) - Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot Till Eulenspiegel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Eulenspiegel), folk figure Aleister Crowley, [Magick Without Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagickWithoutTears) Weird Studies episode 75 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/75) - Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey Weird Studies episode 76 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/76) - Below the Abyss: On Bergson's Metaphysics Rider-Waite Tarot Deck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite_tarot_deck) Richard Wagner, Parsifal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal) G. W. F. Hegel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel), German philosopher Ramsey Dukes, Words Made Flesh: Information in Formation (https://www.amazon.com/Words-Made-Flesh-Information-Formation/dp/0904311112) George Spencer Brown, [Laws of Form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawsofForm) Alain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/deleuze) [Punch and Judy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PunchandJudy), British puppet show George P. Hansen, The Trickster and the Paranormal (http://www.tricksterbook.com) Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (https://www.amazon.com/Importance-Living-Lin-Yutang/dp/0688163521) Thomas Mann, [Death in Venice](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Venice-Thomas-Mann/dp/1420958178/ref=sr11?dchild=1&keywords=Death+in+Venice&qid=1594182534&s=books&sr=1-1) Phil Ford's lecture on Death in Venice (Patreon exclusive (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies)!) Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2638/2638-h/2638-h.htm) Hal Ashby (dir.), [Being There](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeingThere)_ Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa, The Way of the Tarot (https://www.amazon.com/Way-Tarot-Spiritual-Teacher-Cards/dp/1594772630) Frank Pavich (dir.), [Jodorowsky’s Dune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27sDune)_ Tarot of Marseilles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_of_Marseilles) André Breton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Breton), French surrealist artist

Tao Te Ching Verse 36translation in The Tao of Rivenrock: a personal translationIt is the way of the Tao that:To reduce the influence of something,first allow it undue influence.To reduce something, it must first be allowed to expand.That which will be torn down, must first be raised up.This is the subtle way the weak can overcome the strong.A fish should not leave the water.And one should not display one's weapons.Photo by Nicholas Doherty on UnsplashThe Subtle WayEbb & flow. Sometimes doing. Sometimes resting More than just opposites, these are states in which we find ourselves from time to time. There is an event.. Then there’s a time of reflection. A physical feat like a race , and then a period of physical recovery.There is a noise, and then silence. Remember how we talked about the Tao always being in motion? That’s one of the principles I think Lao Tzu is building on in this verse.But he takes it a little further, as far as human attributes are concerned. He talks about a time to expand and a time to contract. A time of strength, and a time of weakness. A time for influence and a time for none.I think we can get a couple deeper meanings. One meaning, the one I came away with, was sort of a derivation of the verse that explained contentment. The one that said the one who doesn’t compete is not competed against. Remember that one? I took that plus this verse and thought hmm, I need not experience such extremes in my life if I recognize where I’m at, examine its opposite, and if that’s an undesired state for me, dial back the intensity with which I’m pursuing or giving attention to my current state. In other words, I’m kind of consciously using the Law of Balance. The second deeper meaning expands on the one we just talked about, from Chuang Tze, as relayed by Lin Yutang in his book, The Wisdom of Laotse, page 192 in the 1948 version: “To take the phenomena of rise and fall, growth and decay, the Tao does not regard rise and fall as rise and fall...These are all leveled together by Tao. Division is the same as creation, and creation is the same as destruction. There is no such thing as creation and destruction, for these conditions are again leveled together into One.”So this seems to be drawing a wider net around our counterintuitive discussion: that a time of action and a time of rest are just different varieties of times for the Tao. That a time of happiness and a time of sadness are just different ways to describe an experience.So there are a few takeaways here: one, that we can use the Subtle Light to look for and work towards balance in our lives, that seeming opposite times are just different kinds of times for the Tao - it’s only that importance that we place on them that makes them seem to matter, and two, the implication thereof: that nothing we can experience eclipses the Tao. We are safely ensconced in its domain. There is really nothing, either in our current forms or other forms of which to be afraid.

Tao Te Ching Verse 33:translated by Cheng LinThose who know others are wise; those who know themselves are enlightened.Those who overcome others are powerful; those who overcome themselves are strong.Those who feel self-contentment are rich; those who practice self-cultivation are resolute.Those who abide by their original natures or centers endure; those who follow Truth throughout life enjoy immortality.Photo by Guillermo Ferla on UnsplashImmortalityLet’s visualize our virtuous attributes.Wisdom. Inner Strength. Contentment. Inner BeingLet’s consider how those attributes relate to this feeling of life we have right now. I think we can take relate to Lao Tzu and how he puts it in the next two lines: Those who abide by their original natures [or centers] endure; those who follow Truth throughout life enjoy immortality.The center he’s talking about is that center you feel when being present with the things in that circle. The center is our life force, that thing that never really goes away. Of course, we cover it up with stuff in the left circle we left in the background, things like perception of others, force, and other make-humans-do-stuff kinds of things. But when we can reconnect with that inner glow, it turns out, for me at least, that nothing else seems as important in that moment. My life force is the one thing that keeps me going. That allows me to endure, just like Lao Tzu says.Now. If I can connect with that life force feeling - my center, my bagage wagons, my...essence, I may remember that that feeling is the feeling of the Tao within me. The Tao is inside me. And it’s inside of you. We are expressions of the Tao. So if the Tao is Infinite, always on, always moving, I would like to ask you: would that not apply to us, as well? If we can connect with that feeling of the Tao within us, and remember that we are integral to the infinite, always on, ever changing Tao, aren’t we also Tao? Aren’t we, dare I say, immortal, in a sense? In the last line, Lin Yutang translates Lao Tzu suggesting that [those of us who die yet remain have long life]. What is the death he’s talking about? It could be corporeal death, sure. For now, I like to think about it as the death of selfish desires, the death of ambition, the death of the importance of my will inflicted on the world. If I can pay more attention to the things that create the attributes of the right circle, the left circle fades way into the background and dies a kind of death back there, so that in my presence, the right circle things remain.I like how this verse serves as a reminder to us - in the last few verses, we’ve been discussing mindsets and practices that help us stay in that right circle. This verse kind of tells us about how we can start recognizing the fruits of our labor. If we can stay close to center by practicing what we’ve learned, we can consciously connect with the Tao inside us. We may concentrate on what’s really important vs what only seems important. We won’t need to fight anyone or anything - we’ll automatically endure, without suffering, without resistance. For we will have allowed our selfish desires to fade away so that we can spend more time living in harmony with the Tao.

Tao Te Ching Verse 20Translated by James LeggeWhen we renounce learning we have no troubles.The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'--Small is the difference they display.But mark their issues, good and ill;--What space the gulf between shall fill?What all men fear is indeed to be feared; but how wide and without endis the range of questions (asking to be discussed)!The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying afull banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seemlistless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication oftheir presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I lookdejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude ofmen all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have losteverything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state ofchaos.Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to bebenighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dulland confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting asif I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, whileI alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I aloneam different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).Photo by Vivek Doshi on UnsplashDepending on the TaoFrom the point of view of the ‘rest of the people in the world,’ Lao Tzu says he alone appears slow and stupid. I don’t know about you, but this certainly doesn’t make following the Tao appealing! Yet I have experienced so much goodness with it, that I am compelled to look further than my own limited perspective in this line. Here’s what I think:There is a lot of comparison and contrast in this verse, and as we saw in the middle section, these qualities are what my judging mind has constructed. So when Lao Tzu is saying he seems slow and stupid, could it be perhaps that he is criticizing his own ego? Imagine for a moment that his ego is really just the ‘other people’ in the world. Then it makes sense. Instead of saying ‘to the world’ I seems slow and stupid, we can re-imagine it like this: To my ego’s perception of me, I appear slow and stupid. Mmm, now we’re getting somewhere. I love the last line in this verse, as it takes everything we’ve been taking about and shapes it into perfect context: Lin Yutang translates, “I alone differ from the other people, And value drawing sustenance from the Mother.” Of course by Mother, we mean the Tao. We can put this another way using 2020 language: My higher self, different from my ego’s perception of other people, prefers to draw life from the Source.OK, let’s assume that’s the case right now. We have Higher Selves and we have the Ego Selves. Remember we have the power to choose where we direct our attention; therefore, we can concentrate on Source, or the Tao, or we can concentrate on fulfilling our worldly selves by satisfying the senses of the ego.For me, that’s the big paradox for right now: how gifts of the Tao can appear undesirable until I actually experience them. But to get there, I need to let go of this false sense of separation that I call my ego so I have a chance. I suppose that’s where my journey is leading me.

Tao Te Ching Verse 14Translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane EnglishLook, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.These three are indefinable;Therefore they are joined in one.From above it is not bright;From below it is not dark:An unbroken thread beyond description.It returns to nothingness.The form of the formless,The image of the imageless,It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.Stand before it and there is no beginning.Follow it and there is no end.Stay with the ancient Tao,Move with the present.Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao.Photo by Martin Widenka on UnsplashHere begins what Lin Yutang calls Book III - the Imitation of Tao. Lao Tzu seems to be reminding us of the un-namable and mystic quality of the Tao in this verse. I feel like he’s saying, ‘before we begin, let’s remember the eternal nature of the Tao.’ How the Tao is like a shadowCan’t see it, can’t hear it, can’t touch it. And yet it’s the thing that’s responsible for the known Universe and beyond. A statement like this, even in 2020, will get you filed away as someone who’s lost it. Imagine what it would have been like for Lao Tzu! Trying to name something that eludes all senses seems, on the surface, like an exercise in futility, doesn’t it? But for us, we happy humans who have had a beautiful introduction to the Tao thus far, we can glimpse, if even for a fleeting moment, the invisibility, the inaudibility, and the intangibility of this all pervasive force. We looked at Verse 12, the one that talks about inner vision. It was obvious from that verse that fulfillment only of the corporeal and egoistic senses are unfulfilling. It’s only when we discover the Tao though our inner vision that we become awakened to this seeming no thing. And really, all we can do at our very best is talk about it, hint at it, say what it’s not, and in so doing only get a feel for the Tao’s negative. I like to compare this to the idea of a shadow of something. The shadow itself only indicates what is causing it. Try to capture a shadow, and you’ll come up empty every time. The shadow is a negative of what is actually creating it. So it’s kind of like a negative indicator. It reveals what’s not there.We can observe the shadow. But the shadow is actually the absence of light! How can we see the absence of light? We can’t hear a shadow, nor can we touch it. But it’s there. We can sense it, can’t we? And we even have a name for it, but when we pause to consider what it actually is, we can’t really pin it down. Similar to the Tao.

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06/12/2019 The True Threat of Marxism, Socialism, Communism in America and The History of Global Genocide of 100's of Millions Under Communism: Article From www.Heritage.org Some conservatives may be discouraged by the latest surveys confirming that nearly one-half of millennials are receptive to living under socialism and regard capitalism as a captive of greed. In fact, they present us with a golden opportunity to educate all Americans about the manifold failures of socialism and the miraculous advances the world has made under free enterprise. For example, the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson revealed at a Heritage Foundation event that between 2000 and 2012, “the rate of absolute poverty in the world fell by 50 percent.” That is, “the poor in the world are getting rich at a rate that is absolutely unparalleled in all of human history.” Heritage’s 2019 Index of Economic Freedom reported that the greatest advances came in African and Asian countries (such as Botswana and Taiwan) that limited rather than expanded the role of government. More than 100 countries, many of them with less developed or emerging economies, showed marked advances in economic growth and individual prosperity.   Such good news is seldom reported by the mainstream media, Dr. Peterson said, because of the technological revolution that’s occurring in every form of media. All the broadcast networks, leading newspapers and magazines exist in a shrinking market with dwindling margins of profit. To attract attention they are turning to an old journalism axiom: “If it bleeds, it leads.”   The news media obsess over the latest school shooting and bloody street riot. And yet, Dr. Peterson pointed out, the rates of violent crime in the United States and in most places “have plummeted in the last 50 years.” The U.S. is now safer than it has been since the early 1960s, but the reporting of violent crime in America has materially increased as the mainstream media, in pursuit of ratings and revenue, have highlighted the dark side of society. Conservatives must step forward to tell the truth about capitalism: the better life it has brought to billions of people, the diversity and freedom of choice it celebrates, the individual responsibility it encourages, the continuing miracle of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” its rejection of government planning that always leads to dictatorship. Which brings us to the urgent task of exposing the chimera that socialism is just another political system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their fellow socialists carefully omit any mention of the principles laid down by Karl Marx, the founding father of Socialism, such as the abolition of private property and the centralization of the means of production and of decision-making. But make no mistake: there are radical socialists waiting in the wings to promote these extreme initiatives. It’s up to us to tell the truth. Socialists promise a classless society but create the prison camps of the Gulag and the Isle of Pines. They assure peace but engage in wars of national liberation. They abolish private property but depend upon the underground economy. They stamp out religion but worship Big Brother. They bring down corrupt dictators but institute a dictatorship of the Party. Here are some of the most telling failures of socialism. One, socialism has never succeeded anywhere, including the Marxism-Leninism of the Soviet Union, the National Socialism of Nazi Germany, the Maoism of Communist China, the Chavez-Maduro socialism of Venezuela. It has never come close anywhere to Marx’s ideal of a classless society. Two, Karl Marx has been wrong about nearly everything he predicted. The nation-state has not withered away. Capitalism didn’t break down as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Workers haven’t become revolutionaries but capitalists. The middle class hasn’t disappeared; indeed, it has expanded exponentially around the world (see the above about the sharp decline in global poverty). Marx’s attempt to use Hegel to create a “scientific socialism” has been an abject failure. Three, socialism denies the existence of an essential human trait – human nature. Marx borrowed from the Enlightenment to declare that human nature was malleable, not constant. Christian theology with its idea of a fixed God-given nature infuriated Marx. The socialist state established by Lenin tried for seven decades to create an entirely new human being – Soviet Man. In December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev gave up trying and dissolved the world’s most spectacular failure in human engineering. Four, socialism depends not upon the will of the people but on the dictatorship of the Party to remain in power. In “The God That Failed,” six famous Western intellectuals describe their journey into socialism and their exit when they encountered the gigantic gap between their vision of a socialist utopia and the totalitarian reality of the socialist state. After visiting the Soviet Union, the French Nobel Laureate writer Andre Gide said: “I doubt where in any country in the world – not even in Hitler’s Germany – have the mind and spirit ever been less free, more bent, more terrorized and indeed vassalized than in the Soviet Union.” What price socialism? The Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang listed the “little terrors” that prevailed in China – making children of 12 subject to capital punishment, sending women to work in underground coal mines, harassing workers during their lunchtime with threats of prison if they were late returning to work. A Soviet defector said of the perpetual surveillance: “We lived in a world swarming with invisible eyes and ears.” Given the ignorance of so many of our fellow especially young Americans, telling the truth about socialism has become an imperative. If we do not, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and their fellow travelers will fill the vacuum with their misleading rhetoric. This is the truth about socialism: It is a pseudo-religion founded in pseudo-science and enforced by political tyranny. This piece originally appeared in Fox News

La frase de Hoy: Además del noble arte de hacer cosas, existe también el noble arte de dejar cosas sin hacer. La sabiduría de la vida consiste en la eliminación […]

La frase de Hoy:  Además del noble arte de hacer cosas, existe también el noble arte de dejar cosas sin hacer. La sabiduría de la vida consiste en la eliminación de lo que no es esencial. Lin Yutang Música: Diggin In de Robert Grigg

In this episode, the Write Pack celebrate Chinese author Lin Yutang and discuss his concept of a scamp. To Lin, the scamp is the character that stands between freedom and tyranny. “My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. . . . In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from being lost in serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies.  The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships.  He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered.  All modern civilization depends entirely upon him.”--Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living [1937] Do you a question or a topic for the Write Pack to explore? Leave a comment here, or on our Facebook page, or email us at WritePackRadio@WindingTrailsMedia.com All episodes available at:    -  iTunes    -  Blog Talk Radio    -  TuneIn    - YouTube    -  And other platforms New episodes every Sunday Music: by Meredith Tate

In today's episode, Gina outlines five useful ways to avoid anxiety, or in other words, to have an anti-anxiety mind. At the core of these suggestions lies a duality of emotion that we can use to guide ourselves: open-mindedness, flexibility and curiosity on one hand, and closed-mindedness, rigidity and frustration on the other hand. Using the techniques suggested in this podcast, we can cultivate a flexibility and open-mindedness that can help us resolve our anxious state. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now  by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial  To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -LIN YUTANG

In today's episode, Gina outlines five useful ways to avoid anxiety, or in other words, to have an anti-anxiety mind.  At the core of these suggestions lies a duality of emotion that we can use to guide ourselves:  open-mindedness, flexibility and curiosity on one hand, and closed-mindedness, rigidity and frustration on the other hand.  Using the techniques suggested in this podcast, we can cultivate a flexibility and open-mindedness that can help us resolve our anxious state. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now  by Eckhart Tolle  www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial  To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -LIN YUTANG

Frase de Lin YutangLa vida está compuesta de insignificancias; el año de instantes y las montañas de granos de arena. Por lo tanto no subestimes nada, por pequeño que te parezca.Música de Studio Wanted - Beautiful Morning

Frase de Lin YutangLa vida está compuesta de insignificancias; el año de instantes y las montañas de granos de arena. Por lo tanto no subestimes nada, por pequeño que te parezca.Música de Studio Wanted - Beautiful Morning

Die meisten China-Kenner sind sich heute einig - das Buch "Mein Land und mein Volk" ist immer noch das Beste, was es zum Denken und Verhalten der Chinesen gibt. Das ist das Hauptwerk von Lin Yutang (1895-1976).

Peter Horse is back ready to talk about all kinds of things that could get us carted off to prison, including Liu Xiaobo, Taylor Swift T-shirts vs The Chinese Communist Party, the hidden world of the Taiwanese pop/rock industry, Lin Yutang, enormous typewriters, Christianity and that “incident” that went down at Tiananmen Square. To hear on iTunes, click here!

Richard Jean So’s new book studies a group of American and Chinese writers in the three decades after WWI to propose a conceptual framework for understanding intellectual and cultural relations between China and America in the twentieth century and beyond. The period that So focuses on was crucial for a number of reasons, including a transformation in US-China relations, transformations in the world economy and international politics, the rise of a new era in media technologies (including the formation of a massive technological infrastructure between the US and East Asia, due in part to radio and telegraph technology and a transpacific transportation system) and the related emergence of a discourse of communications. In Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016), So argues that literary histories of U.S.-China cultural encounter in the twentieth century must also, in part, be histories of media. So recasts the Pacific in the twentieth century as a site of mediation and traces the engagement with concepts of democracy through the work of such writers as Agnes Smedley, Pearl Buck, Paul Robeson, Lin Yutang, Ding Ling, Liu Liangmo, Lao She, and Ida Puitt. It’s a focused, compelling account with resonance for Asian studies, Asian American studies, and broader debates about literature, translation, networks, and media in the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Jean So’s new book studies a group of American and Chinese writers in the three decades after WWI to propose a conceptual framework for understanding intellectual and cultural relations between China and America in the twentieth century and beyond. The period that So focuses on was crucial for a number of reasons, including a transformation in US-China relations, transformations in the world economy and international politics, the rise of a new era in media technologies (including the formation of a massive technological infrastructure between the US and East Asia, due in part to radio and telegraph technology and a transpacific transportation system) and the related emergence of a discourse of communications. In Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016), So argues that literary histories of U.S.-China cultural encounter in the twentieth century must also, in part, be histories of media. So recasts the Pacific in the twentieth century as a site of mediation and traces the engagement with concepts of democracy through the work of such writers as Agnes Smedley, Pearl Buck, Paul Robeson, Lin Yutang, Ding Ling, Liu Liangmo, Lao She, and Ida Puitt. It’s a focused, compelling account with resonance for Asian studies, Asian American studies, and broader debates about literature, translation, networks, and media in the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Jean So’s new book studies a group of American and Chinese writers in the three decades after WWI to propose a conceptual framework for understanding intellectual and cultural relations between China and America in the twentieth century and beyond. The period that So focuses on was crucial for a number of reasons, including a transformation in US-China relations, transformations in the world economy and international politics, the rise of a new era in media technologies (including the formation of a massive technological infrastructure between the US and East Asia, due in part to radio and telegraph technology and a transpacific transportation system) and the related emergence of a discourse of communications. In Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016), So argues that literary histories of U.S.-China cultural encounter in the twentieth century must also, in part, be histories of media. So recasts the Pacific in the twentieth century as a site of mediation and traces the engagement with concepts of democracy through the work of such writers as Agnes Smedley, Pearl Buck, Paul Robeson, Lin Yutang, Ding Ling, Liu Liangmo, Lao She, and Ida Puitt. It’s a focused, compelling account with resonance for Asian studies, Asian American studies, and broader debates about literature, translation, networks, and media in the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Jean So’s new book studies a group of American and Chinese writers in the three decades after WWI to propose a conceptual framework for understanding intellectual and cultural relations between China and America in the twentieth century and beyond. The period that So focuses on was crucial for a number of reasons, including a transformation in US-China relations, transformations in the world economy and international politics, the rise of a new era in media technologies (including the formation of a massive technological infrastructure between the US and East Asia, due in part to radio and telegraph technology and a transpacific transportation system) and the related emergence of a discourse of communications. In Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016), So argues that literary histories of U.S.-China cultural encounter in the twentieth century must also, in part, be histories of media. So recasts the Pacific in the twentieth century as a site of mediation and traces the engagement with concepts of democracy through the work of such writers as Agnes Smedley, Pearl Buck, Paul Robeson, Lin Yutang, Ding Ling, Liu Liangmo, Lao She, and Ida Puitt. It’s a focused, compelling account with resonance for Asian studies, Asian American studies, and broader debates about literature, translation, networks, and media in the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author of Books for Living Interview starts at 19:07 and ends at 43:15 "One of the reasons I come back to Lin Yutang is a marvelous story he tells, in 1937, about being in the most famous tea house in China. And the tourists there are so busy taking photographs of themselves drinking tea that they don't enjoy the tea. And I thought to myself, ‘We blame too much on the machines.' Constant connectivity is our fault. It's not the fault of the little items we hold in our hands. And it's been a problem—distraction and impatience have been with us since the dawn of time. So my first thing is to blame myself and not the machine. News “How Alexa Won CES” (video) by Geoffrey A. Fowler at The Wall Street Journal - January 6, 2017 “Amazon's Alexa is everywhere at CES 2017” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - January 6, 2017 LG press release on Smart Instaview refrigerator - January 4, 2017 “Mattel's $300 Echo clone will read your children bedtime stories” by James Vincent at The Verge - January 3, 2017 “Lynx Robot is Alexa's best disguise at CES 2017” by Andrew Gebhart at CNET - January 5, 2017 “Get Ready, Your Robotic Roomate is Moving in” by Aki Ito at Bloomberg - January 6, 2016 “Murder Suspect's Amazon Echo device could help solve the case” by Chris Graham at The Telegraph - December 28, 2016 “Bentonville PD Says Man Strangled, Drowned Former Georgia Officer” at 5News - February 23, 2016 “Police ask: “Alexa, did you witness a murder?” by Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica - December 28, 2016 Bentonville Police search warrants in Bates case Amazon Books page at Amazon.com Tech Tip ereaderiq.com Interview with Will Schwalbe Books for Living by Will Schwalbe “The Need to Read” by Will Schwalbe at The Wall Street Journal - November 25, 2016 (Behind a paywall; try Googling “The Need to Read by Will Schwalbe”) Wonder by R. J. Palacio The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang “Cabdriver's Book Club” by Ryder Ziebarth at The New York Times - March 11, 2013 The Golden Age: A Novel by Joan London Three Lives & Company bookstore in New York City Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane E. Smith (not available on Kindle) Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo “Lessons on How to Live, in 26 Books” by A. J. Jacobs at The New York Times - December 23, 2016 Next Week's Guest Paul Slavin, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!  

https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Wisdom-Unplugged2.png () Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 450 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomEliminate the Non-Essentials – Wisdom UnpluggedThank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is day 450 of our trek, and it is Tuesday and time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today's trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom each Tuesday and Thursday. So let's jump right in with today's nugget. Today's quote is from a Lin Yutang, who says, “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/51f43a0a61485d908d7d4381ad330a90.jpg () We all seem to be so busy in the relentless pursuit of fame and fortune that we sometimes miss the important aspect of life. I would conjecture that there are many activities and pursuits in life that are just not that essential to living a happy, joyful, and peaceful life, which is a life that is rich and satisfying. I am a driven and disciplined person and certainly fall prey to the trap of trying to get so many things done that I too miss the forest for the trees. Let us have the wisdom to diligently eliminate those activities and goals that are not helping us to fulfill our true purpose in life. As the Apostle Paul encouraged his apprentice Timothy in his first letter to him in 1 Timothy 6:11, “But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.” That's a wrap for today's Wisdom Unplugged. If you enjoy these quotes, I have created and published a searchable database of over 10,000 quotes that I have collected for many years. If you would like access to my database of inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of Wisdom-Trek.com. Encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy. Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly your friend as I serve you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal each day.https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-wisdom-of-life-consists-in-the-elimination-of-non-essentials.-–-Lin-Yutang-1200x630.png ()As we take this trek of life together, let us always: Live Abundantly (Fully) Love Unconditionally Listen Intentionally Learn Continuously Lend to others Generously Lead with Integrity Leave a Living Legacy Each Day This is Guthrie Chamberlain reminding you to Keep Moving Forward, Enjoy Your Journey, and Create a Great Day Every Day! See you tomorrow for Wisdom Wednesday!

https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Wisdom-Trek2800.jpg () Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 393 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Cycles and Seasons of Life (8) – The Celebration of Fall Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy podcast. This is Day 393 of our trek, and today is Philosophy Friday. Every Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. Today we are continuing our trek covering the Cycles and Seasons of Life. In particular, we are moving forward and focusing on the fall season of life. https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/philosophy-def.jpg () We are broadcasting from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. We drove back to Charlotte on Wednesday and will be here for a week before heading back to Marietta for a few days to assist clients and enjoy our granddaughter Aurora's 5th birthday celebration. We do travel a good bit, but with each season of life, our focus and priorities will change. We need to be flexible and willing to make those changes. Life rarely turns out how we expected and is based on the accumulation of all the decisions we have made in our lives up till now. The key to living a rich and satisfying life is to make wise decisions and then choose to enjoy life even if it is different than we expected. What you plant in the spring season of life and then nurture during the summer season of life is what you will harvest in the fall season of life. So plant and nurture wisely, so your harvest will be fruitful and in abundance. Realize also that during your lifetime, there will be many different cycles of seasons. Just because a particular season did not turn out as you expected, don't let that control the entirety of your life. Each winter season is a time for reflection and planning while each new spring season gives you an opportunity to start new again. https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/95e72966e72925259f375bab1086389f1.jpg () This brings us to our trek for today as we consider moving from summer to fall within the Cycles and Seasons of Life, and this section of our trek is titled… The Celebration of Fall I would like to start off our trek today with a quote from Lin Yutang who explained the seasons of life in this way, “I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like fall best of all, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colors richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow… Its golden riches speak not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kingly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.” https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fall-harvest-celebration.jpg () I have to admit that I am approaching my fall of life, and I find this quote to be so true.  As I mature, it is easier to see the richness of life but also some of the limitations of life. With this knowledge, I can be content with life how it is, not necessarily how I expected it to be. Fall is a time for celebration as well as a time for a searching of the conscience. If you planted abundantly in the spring and fought against the insects, weeds, and weather of summer, fall can bring rewards that will give you cause for rejoicing. On the other hand, if you watched both the arrival and departure of spring and made little effort to take advantage of its almost momentary tenure, fall can be a time of turmoil, a time of anxiety, and a time of great regret. It is in the fall when you discover how long or short the winter will be. The fall tells you if you have really done that which is required, or if you have fooled yourself through the temporary anesthetizing of conversation and pretense of telling yourself you...

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There are no words to describe this video podcast, so I suppose it's best not to over think it. I'm not quite sure why, but Chinese writer and inventor Lin Yutang comes to mind when describing today's daily video documentation on the road again as, noted author of Alibiography and Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia, filmmaker, and moreover life documentarian, since age 11 in 1987, Jonathan Harnisch (hey, that's me!) ventures out and about around the town of Corrales, New Mexico where he continues to seek meaning and purpose in life, living with schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome, in particular, referring to the Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself.” Simply spend the afternoon with Jonathan Harnisch on a typical positive day. Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.” To quote Yutang, “If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” Jonathan accomplishes this and more in this partly educational and partly just staying in the now sort of film. Thank you all for tuning in and your continued support and love living with mental illness, rather comorbid mental health conditions as I recover. Life can be tough, and so can recovery. Sometimes we just have to let go and stay in the moment, presenting a half hour of hanging out, hoping you hang out with me. As always, there are more movies to come. Again, thank you. I have a lot to be grateful for, including you, which is why I publish these film dailies as I have been for over 5 years now, namely on Vimeo and my podcast currently called Schizophrenia Raw on iTunes.

Lin Yutang’s quote is pretty profound. In my own life, I’ve noticed anytime I’ve achieved success, or happiness, it’s because I’m focused on the essential things. Getting caught up in the non-essentials causes failure, and unhappiness. In this episode I … Continued The post The Wisdom of Life Consists in the Elimination of Non-Essentials. Episode 188 appeared first on Forever Jobless.

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Ha Jin was born in China in 1956. After Tiananmen Square, he emigrated to the United States. Unlike most exiled writers Ha Jin was not established in his native language; he had no audience in Chinese, and so chose to write in English.   He has published three collections of poetry, including Between Silences and Facing Shadows, and three collections of short fiction, Ocean of Words, received the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, won the Flannery O'Connor Award. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. In 2004, he published War Trash, which also won the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. We met in Ottawa to talk about his first book of non-fiction The Writer as Migrant . Adapted from The Rice University Campbell Lecture he delivered in 2006, the book consists of  three interconnected essays exploring the experience of the migrant,  ‘exiled' writers in relation to their ‘home' countries and languages.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn,  Lin Yutang, Homer, Joseph Conrad , Vladimir Nabokov and others all contribute to the conversation.