Tokyo–Admitting that she has failed yet again to memorize the vocabulary words assigned in ESL lesson last week, Shiitake Miyashita, 16, burst violently into tears in your local cram school and spewed a concatenation of angry words in her native… Read More ›
Buddhism
Is this bullshit? Yeah. No? Yeah. No? Who gives a shit. You do? Nah…Well, maybe?
I ran into Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck and its summary, Summary of the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck recently. I’m not done with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck yet,… Read More ›
Zen Buddhists eat traditional Japanese donuts during meditation
EIHEIJI, JAPAN—Zen Buddhist Dōgen Zenji, 38, revealed an esoteric trick to successful meditation known as dōnatsu no michi, the practice of masticating a piece of donut until one becomes united with the cosmos. The history of the donut is disputed. Some… Read More ›
Fourth graders stun scholars with incisive Rothko analyses
COLUMBUS, OH—A group of home-schooled fourth graders have established a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal entitled Midwest Journal of the Metaphysics of Art, stunning professors and graduate students from disciplines ranging from the arts to biomedical engineering. “The problem with postmodern art is that… Read More ›
Third grader locks himself in Skinner box in failed attempt to achieve enlightenment
TAICHUNG, TAIWAN—While teachers convened in preparation for a PTA meeting, American School in Taichung (AST) 8-year-old student Dustin Huffman sought nirvana in the science lab, to which he gained unauthorized access using a crowbar he had stolen from the general affairs… Read More ›