CURRENT MISSION

Simplify!

ABOUT ME

We are two middle aged children who are inquisitive and open minded. We love reading, cooking vegan food, watching strange movies, learning, exploring, meeting new people with new ideas.

PHILOSOPHY

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.

Lao Tzu

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Spread the word!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Never had a bad one! Well okay, there was the time that crazy Russian dude walked right through the sliding glass door in our apartment in China, but it wasn't really his fault, I guess!

Interests

Vegan cooking; Taoism; Buddhism; democratic workplaces as an alternative to capitalism; history; Anarchism; different cultures

• books
• dining
• cooking
• vegan
• movies
• reading
• cycling
• buddhist
• economics
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies enjoyed recently: The Science of Sleep, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Children, Humpday, Air Doll, Pan's Labrynth, La Nana, The War on Democracy. Authors: E.F. Schumacher, Richard Wolff, Alexander Berkman, Maxim Gorky, Steve Hagen, Albert Camus, Tom Wolfe, John Pilger. Website: www.rdwolff.com

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting Monique and packing my life into two suitcases and moving to Holland (and then China, Viet Nam and Morocco) to be with her. The only really clever thing I ever did.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always interested to learn about the real history of places we live (not the propaganda in the books) from people who've lived it. Happy to share what I've gleaned from reading about Buddhism/Anarchism/Economics if anyone's interested, but I'm still on the learning curve myself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Cameroon, China, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

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