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  • What is not learning: 無為 (wú wéi) and good governance

    That is what the pursuit of the 道 (dào) entails: an action that leads to less and less doing until there is no doing at all. However, this is not an empty sort of doing because “nothing is left undone” still. 無為 (wú wéi) is not just a “not doing” but an action-less action. Such…

  • Words for a nation

    Whatever it means to be human varies in some way from person to person. Yet everyone has a collective albeit oftentimes both unexpressed and inexpressible understanding of this common denominator. Similarly, nations differ from how they understand their ‘group’ and ‘other groups’ while all calling these unique sets using similar terms. In the twenty-first century…

  • Initial thoughts on ‘구운몽’ (Kim Manjung’s ‘The Nine Cloud Dream’)

    Initial thoughts on ‘구운몽’ (Kim Manjung’s ‘The Nine Cloud Dream’)

    “As he looked around, he was filled with melancholy thoughts, and he sighed. “My mind is tired and my nerves are frayed from the war. Why must I be so engaged with worldly troubles? After I have fulfilled my duties I will retire and live in nature, detached from the cares of this world of…

  • Secrets of a rainy night

    On the roof is confrontation that strangely comforts me and my little brothers, asleep through this pitter-patter. In our room, it resonates this sound, through this this noise: they can sleep lying dogs after a long day and I in here can breathe, stay still, finally, still. The rain seeps through the ceiling making our…

  • Augmented reality and the illusion of dependence

    I find it interesting how the ‘key takeaways’ in this article had been written: “Social media manipulates our reality by filtering what we are allowed (or not allowed) to see.” Louis Rosenberg, “Metaverse: Augmented reality inventor warns it could be far worse than social media.” BigThink. Link. Not because I agree or disagree with it,…

  • I See You

    I See You

    “I see you,” / said an online group / where we / felt stressed and anxious, / experienced a sense of / well— / with words / “saw” / me—my hopes, fears, struggles, and dreams— Today’s reading

  • Pencil studies: bahay kubo

    Pencil studies: bahay kubo

    I try to take more pictures with my phone now. Not because I got my current model exactly for its cameras nor is it for the sake of having more ‘memories’. Truthfully, the idea of having ‘a lot of memories’ to keep still feels overwhelming. My comfort zone is when everything is neat and tidy…

  • ‘Blue Hour’ (2021)

    ‘Blue Hour’ (2021)

    The gallery, for now. However all of café gyü‘s artworks are going to arrange themselves someday, I have no idea yet. For now, I have stopped thinking about such so I could make more of them instead. Make more in whatever daylight remains by the time I awake. This is the season of sunsets and…

  • ‘Riveted’

    A magic pill that brings forth wakefulness instantaneously to my sleeping hippocampus sedated by the lullof every ticking time bombs: dead-lineswhere the living humans lie—this word is my panaceathat an unseen spirit injects often without consentlike emergency aid before all is too lateand there is no one in the roombut the patient and the medicine…

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