Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism

Sub-sections in This Section:

1. Food

2. Medicine

3. Sports

4. Language Study

5. Education

6. Friends, Family and Mentors

1. Eating Together:
    Body, Soul and Earth GO
2. Soup Night: American Style:
    The Many Become One But Not the Same GO
3. Tea Leaf Egg:
    A Recipe and a Story,
    With a Whiteheadian Reflection GO
4. Korean Bibimbab: 
    The Jazzic Aesthetics of Food Hybridity GO
5. The Beauty of Porridge: 
    The Laba Festival, a Nursery Rhyme, 
    and a little Whitehead
    (English and Chinese) GO
6. Nothing Can Be More Delicious Than Jiaozi:
    Recipe, Stories, and a Whiteheadian Reflection
    (English and Chinese) GO
7. Sacred Fudge:
    Family Recipes as Context for Love GO
8. The Spiritual Meaning of “Delicious”
    Enjoying a Meal in Hubei, China GO 
9. “Guò Zǎo” and Hot-and-dry Noodles 
   ----A Glimpse of the Food Culture of Wuhan, China 
    (English and Chinese) GO
10. Finding God in Rice: “밥은 하늘입니다.”
    A Reflection on Korean Culture, Hybridity, 
    and the Religion of Life GO 
11. Every Meal is Thanksgiving 
    Gratitude to the Farmer, Gratitude to the Earth
    怀着感恩的心   吃每一顿饭 GO 
12. American Chili and Chinese BBQ: 
    Creating an East-West Culture GO 
13. Spinach in a Hot Pot Reflections 
    on Food and Identity GO
14. Process Theology and Food:
     It Tastes So Good Already GO

1. Medicine East and West: 
    Combining Two Traditions GO 
2. On Death and Dying: 
    An East-West Approach GO 
3. Curing and Healing:
    An East-West Approach GO
4. Delightfully Familiar, Delightfully New
    Tai Ji as a Constructively 
    Postmodern Practice GO
5. Medicine with a Soft Touch
    The Role of Loving Hands in the Healing Arts GO
6. Some Sort of New Life
    Finding Healing within Illness and Trauma GO
7. When Your Child Is Seriously Ill: 
    A Constructive Postmodern Approach GO
8. Where is God in Mental Illness? GO
9. The Wind is Blowing
    The Presence of God in Autism GO 
10. 一本充满后现代智慧的养生书
      读中里巴人的《求医不如求己》 GO
11. Whitehead and Tai Ji (太极):
     A Chinese Student in America
     Reclaims theWisdom of His Tradition GO 
12. 中国式道德疗法      
    ----一个有待深入探讨的课题 GO
13. The World as Thoroughly Miraculous:
     Reflections on the Reality and Importance
     Of Miracles by John B. Cobb, Jr. 
     And Jay McDaniel GO
14. Do Miracles Occur?
    The Reality and Importance
    of the Astonishing GO
15. Gratitude After a Heart Attack and
    Spreading Peace After a Stroke GO

1. Baseball and Mysticism
    The Magic and Ecstasy of Flesh GO
2. Tennis as a Koan
    Reflections from Harbin, China GO
3. Football: It's About the Hitting GO 
4. Why Football?
    Mindful Acting in Concert with Others
    (English and Chinese) GO
5. Woo...Pig Sooie!
    American Football in Chinese Perspective
    (English and Chinese) GO
6. The Dao (道) of Basketball
    Wisdom for East and West GO

1. Learning English, A Part of My Life:
     An Adventure in Humanity, Too
    (English and Chinese) GO
2. 聪明 as Multiple Intelligence:
    Gaining Wisdom from Chinese Characters GO
3. “知音”(zhī yīn) and Musical Friendship:
    Gaining wisdom from Chinese characters GO
4. Language Learning:
    An Adventure in Multi-Colored Thinking 
    (English and Chinese) GO
5. Why One American Learns Chinese
     An Adventure in Humanity GO  
6. The Creative Transformation of Languages:
    From Translation to Novelty GO
7. In the Beginning is the Listening
    Learning from a Chinese Character 聪 GO

1. Video Games in a Postmodern World
    Addiction, Recreation, and Re-Creation GO

1. On the Real Problems of Curriculum Reform 
    In China's Primary and Secondary Schools GO
2. Education East and West:
    Beauty and the Harmonious Society 
    (English and Chinese) GO
3. The Chinese College Entrance Examination:
    One Student’s Story GO
4. When Headache Becomes Adventure: 
    Dancing with English 
    with Help from a Teacher
    (English and Chinese) GO
5. English in China Today
    (English and Chinese) GO
6. My Story of Teaching English in China
    (English and Chinese) GO 
7. Listening, Openness, and Novelty:
    Lessons from a Morning Market in Harbin, China
    on International Education  GO
8. FEELS
    A Constructive Postmodern Idea 
    On Curriculum and Education
    (English and Chinese) GO     
9. Open-Source Learning and Process Philosophy:
     Free Online Global Education GO
10. Does Education Kill Creativity? GO

1. Friends, Families, and Mentors:
    Where Education Begins but Does Not End GO
2. Pine, Bamboo, and Blossom:
     Learning from My Grandfather in China GO 
3. The Live Ugly Team and the Cruel Sister:
     The Challenges and Joys of High School GO 
4. Taking On the Hurts of Orphans:
    Creative Transformation through 
    Volunteering GO
5. Confucian Scholar, Christian, and Guitarist:
     Remembering my Grandfather in Korea GO
6. And Me with my Blonde Hair:
    Postmodern Curiosity in China GO
7. Two Mentors, Two Styles, 
    and the Multifarious World
    (English and Chinese) GO 
8. The Tao of Grandparenting
    “Thou saucy clay-brained fustilarian” GO 
9. Friendships in Airports:
    Holy Communion for Seekers Like Me GO 
10. My Father-아빠
     Filial Piety (孝, 효)and a Daughter’s Love GO 
11. Hungarian, American, Christian, and Buddhist
    Multiple Identities in a Postmodern World GO 
12. Wet time: My Bluestone Story 
    (English and Chinese) GO
13. Mothers Across Oceans:
    The Greatest Love is Wordless GO 
14. Third Spaces
    Cross-Cultural Communities 
    through Food, Music, and Stories
    (English and Chinese)  GO 
15. What Really Matters?
    Metaphysics for the Welfare of Children GO
16.  Mourning my Father: 
    The Confucian Way in Process Perspective GO
17.  Likving to be Ninety: The Possibility
     of Blossoming in Each Circumstance  GO 
18. That's Me Dancing, On the Left
    Reflecting on a Wedding
    With help from Whitehead  GO
19. Fishing with My Father:
    Mutual Transformation by a River GO
20. Two Videos by Marcus Zhu:
    Fish People and The Gift GO
21. Wendell Berry, John Cobb, and Community GO