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Cook Ding's Kitchen
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Featuring a stew consisting of a look at history, poetry (mostly haiku and cinquains), strategy, Zen, books and movies, Daoism, martial arts, Japanese language study, art, tea, and commentary on the events of the day that leave you wondering ââ¬Åwho needs fiction?ââ¬Â
- Added on: Jun 25th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Poems Philosophy Fitness
- Tags: Culture martial arts zen ordinary life who needs fiction? daoism
Recent Posts
Four Arts of a Chinese Scholar
A friend sent me a link to an article regarding the four arts in which one should be accomplished to be regarded a scholar. An excerpt is below. The full article may be read here.Throughout Chinese history, every scholar learns and strives to excel i...
To Find Old Tokyo...
A friend sent me this article. I've excerpted a portion below. Click here to read the full article. There is a slide show. Near Tokyo, a City Shows Its Age, Proudly By KEN BELSON TO learn about Tokyo, you sometimes have to leave it. The ca...
Tea and Aikido
Two of my favorite subjects are the topic of the article I've copied a portion of below. If you click here, you'll be directed to the full article.Tea was cultivated and developed in China about 2000 years ago - initially for m...
300 Tang Dynasty Poems: #33 To My Daughter ...
The Tang Dynasty was considered a cultural golden age in China. The arts were highly developed and poetry was particularly esteemed. No home coming or leave taking was too common, no occasion to small to be commemorated with a poem.The finest poems o...
Big Government in China
A friend sent me this article about some current issues in China. Among them are the perils of big government and a one party system. An excerpt is below. The full article may be read here.July 27, 2009 Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future ...
A Way to Put Power Into Your Movements
Put your back into it!Over at Weakness with a Twist, Scott Phillips has a very good article about the large and efficient muscles in our backs that our "normal" way of moving doesn't make much use of, but internal martial arts uses to a high degree.B...
