Showing posts with label Changming Yuan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Changming Yuan. Show all posts

Monday, June 3, 2013

Wandering Mystic Meditation From China

As China makes more and more headlines in western media, everyone knows that the world's biggest communist country is rapidly changing. Yet, to what degree has the Asian giant transformed? For those who have visited the country recently, there's not a simple answer to this seemingly simple question. China has altered more in the last thirty years than the last thirty centuries. Still, it's hard to give a rational account of those changes in a report of readable size. Be that as it may, I will rely on traditional Chinese folk wisdom, which treats clothing, eating, dwelling and moving as the four most essential aspects of human existence, to sketch the transformations I've perceived since my previous visit to my homeland ten years ago.