An experiment with experiential learning
Brought me back
Seven years had passed
Since I called Tokyo my home
Like an ex-lover
Familiar but different
A flood of memories
In the streets, big and small
The love and the hate I once felt
for the city, for the culture and for a boy
Fused, buried
A different self, many life times ago
Filled with paradoxes
Racism to extremes
Celebritised or despised
Aliens swimming in a foreign sea
of manicured faces
Designer top to toe
Toy cars, Read more [...]
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Japan – a poem
An experiment with experiential learning
Brought me back
Seven years had passed
Since I called Tokyo my home
Like an ex-lover
Familiar but different
A flood of memories
In the streets, big and small
The love and the hate I once felt
for the city, for the culture and for a boy
Fused, buried
A different self, many life times ago
Filled with paradoxes
Racism to extremes
Celebritised or despised
Aliens swimming in a foreign sea
of manicured faces
Designer top to toe
Toy cars, Read more [...] 2013 Sydney Peace Prize: Dr Cynthia Maung
Let me introduce Dr Cynthia Maung, recipient of the 2013 Sydney Peace Prize, who is consuming my life right now as (as Executive Officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation) I am organising Dr Cynthia's visit to Sydney and two HUGE events that follow.
Since the announcement in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend (“Fragile Sanctuary”), on 17 August, we have been on a mission to sell tickets, stimulate media interest and organise the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture in the Sydney Town Read more [...] Why write?
I tend not to write when everything is going well. There's little need. Such peace, in a sense, is boring. At least when it comes to content for a blog.
I also tend not to write when I'm "too busy". When all my energy is being directed elsewhere: into work, relationships, exercise or otherwise.
For a lover of writing this tension can be sickening to their being. But, there are times in life when time must be diverted in this way. The shorter the period of such a diversion the better.
A blog Read more [...] Boundaries between Self and World
"Your skin doesn't separate you from the world; it's a bridge through which the external world flows into you, and you flow into it."
More Alan Watts? Yes, it's always a good time for more Alan Watts. Over and over and over, repeat.
"The whole world is moving through you, all the cosmic rays, all the food you're eating, the stream of steaks and milk and eggs and everything is just flowing right through you."
Have you ever thought about your self in this way? In goes oxygen, water, sunshine Read more [...] A Call to Philosophical Literacy
Philosophy, ideas, culture, intellectual development in the Arts, have been ridiculed by the right-wing "Liberal" political party in Australia. A Coalition Press Release yesterday read:
'The Coalition would look to targeting those ridiculous research grants that leave taxpayers scratching their heads wondering just what the Government was thinking.
Taxpayer dollars have been wasted on projects that do little, if anything, to advance Australians research needs. For example:
The quest for Read more [...]
Legitimate & Illegitimate Authority
On Thursday evening the widely acclaimed author Susan George presented the Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney, on the difference between legitimate and illegitimate authority. These are some of my scribbles.
Susan George started by reminding us that democracy is and will always be a work in progress—something you do not something you get.
The Problems with Neo-liberalism
She put into perspective the new neo-liberal model of politics, which continue to get Read more [...] Adventure
Japan – a poem
An experiment with experiential learning Brought me back Seven years had passed Since I called Tokyo
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Truth
Boundaries between Self and World
"Your skin doesn't separate you from the world; it's a bridge through which the external world flows
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Beauty
Global wealth pyramid – Credit Suisse
If your total wealth is over 1 million dollars you are in the top 0.5% of the global wealth pyramid.
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Peace
2013 Sydney Peace Prize: Dr Cynthia Maung
Let me introduce Dr Cynthia Maung, recipient of the 2013 Sydney Peace Prize, who is consuming my lif
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Random Life Stuff
A drop in the ocean
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multi
