英国学者:法轮功是有政治野心的危险邪教 Many Chinese people oppose the Falun Gong and I shall explain why. In the above picture (taken in May, 2008) an 80 year old
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Ode to Hippies
I was very much the product of the Hippy Movement and was born in 1967 during the ‘Summer of Love’ – my parents were hippies.
Cultivating Dao and Developing Mind is True Self-Cultivation
Genuine self-cultivation can only be achieved after the mind has been developed through discipline. The mind is developed in two ways – by cultivating the permanent states of virtue and selflessness. Cause and effect is entirely dependent upon our own physical actions which produce either blessings or misfortune – but only the realised state of wuwei (non-action) in the mind and body is considered real. Even spirits and ghosts have their method – but their cycle of endless transformation is difficult to discern.
Elderly Male Gay Couple Married in China
“It is very difficult within the context of Chinese culture for young and old (gay) people to fully express what they think and feel about one another to the wider society.”
Taiwan Held its First Lesbian Marriage in 2012
Original Chinese Language Article: By Yi Re Qiu (一日囚) (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Taiwan’s Taoyuan County was the venue for the island’s first marriage
Learning Humility and Respect for China
Another issue is that of Eurocentric academics who write tomes apparently ‘correcting’ Chinese people’s distorted interpretations of the world, without the slightest sense of awareness that what they are doing is committing academic inspired racism. This is because they are commenting on and criticising an entirely ‘imagined’ Chinese community that only exists in their minds,