Utilize every minute

Beyond the time at work, there are actually a lot of time that can be used to improve oneself. I used these time to study Japanese, Cantonese and Deutsch. These trivial time are not useless time, in fact I can learn a lot with these time utilized.

If you don’t want to waste time, every minute counts and adds up your value.

—Negentropist.Z

Not knowing them, but being them

As a foreigner learning other’s language and culture, I once set my goal to really use the language a lot and to understand them. But I fall into one trap that I tried to understand them as an outsider, who knows another language and culture as backup and tries to understand object using mother language as a reference.

Now I feel that this approach to understanding as an outsider is not enough or even misleading because this is always our second option of living. I always have a god view so that I can never immerse myself into a new culture to really think as people in that culture. In other words, I never really put myself in their shoes.

Yeah, it is powerful enough to at least understand a different culture from an outsider’s view. But one step further, a lot more can be learnt if we become one of them by temporally immersing ourselves into that culture and totally forget about our origin, language and culture.

—Negentropist.Z

Anchor of life

If I do have the time to go through my post everyday, I can definitively find myself and live an efficient life. But I don’t.

On one hand, there has to be a constant effort to further refine and condense the wisdom to be easily recalled everyday to guide myself.

On the other hand, it would be even more helpful and practical to refine the wisdoms into daily habits. Habit is a more powerful form of words that produces real outcomes as productions of the spiritual wisdoms.

So lean down my mind and lean down my daily behaviors.

—Negentropist.Z

Each song pins one world

A man should never stop exploring.

A man should never loose interest in the world outside of his own.

I use one favorite song of each language to pin each new world and to remind me of my interest in that world and culture.

With one song as an anchor, I started to expand my vocabulary and knowledge about that world. What a wonderful journey.

—Negentropist.Z

! Ultimate form of me

The ultimate form of me is a walking soul.

Only my soul matters and only my soul could be immortal. The soul can’t be killed and will not vanish over time.

The soul is a rough unit that summarizes all your characteristics within. The flesh will be gone, social status will be replaced by others, wealth is just an external number used to roughly describes your value. But only soul remains even after death and also goes along with you towards the afterlife.

I want to do huge amount of work to purify myself to be a pure walking soul. At least a weak body cannot hold such a strong soul.

Antik – Nachtblut.

—Negentropist.Z

!lean mind without noise

Leaning down body fat is easy because it is a visualized reminder of what to do.

Leaning down mind noise is difficult. The clear mind about right things to do can be easily distracted by so much noise such as fear, puzzle, greedy, ambition, money, relationships and so on so forth. But I should get rid of everything and just focus on one right thing to do because my soul knows what is right. I should not be worried about anything, or distracted by anything.

Only by bringing back my mind into your body to focus on one right thing, am I really appreciating my life.

—Negentropist.Z