August 2009
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The probability that I will stand up on my chair...
In all aspects of my approach to life and reality I try to do away with dualism and strive to find unifications everywhere my mind wanders. I find that the universe is always in balance and that the two ends of the pendulum are actually one. As in a famous Taoist symbol, the big white entity and the big black entity actually hold a little bit of each other. They’re really one and the same,...
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The Blue Parrot
I went to a used bookstore in Takadanobaba on Sunday called The Blue Parrot. It’s apparently a pretty well known used English bookstore in Tokyo. A friend of my mine at work mentioned it to me and I finally got around to checking it out. I was lucky to find they were having a half-off sale last weekend. The place is a pretty tiny, cramped space with three aisles of various books. It has a...