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Overview

  • 23 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English, French; learning Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Exploring my inner world, spread some light when I could
  • Enough to be unconcerned but not indifferent
  • From Kunming, Yunnan, China
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Recently, I just relocated from Lyon to Liverpool, still trying to adapt myself into the new environment/work/people and another phase of life, so I will receive only when I think I could have some time to share meaningful things with my guest, thank you for the understanding.

BE here and be here fully, Fulfill my soul, Live deeply in the present moment.

ABOUT ME

I always quote these fantastique words of William Butler Yeats as a way of describing myself ( which doesn't mean that I read lots of english poems....)

Cast a cold eye
On Life, on Death
Horseman pass by

and kissing the fire ( added by me,sorry~ ^^)

PHILOSOPHY

Bodhhicitta (Wisdom and Compassion)
Order of Interbeing
Make sweet and fun through out the bitter (they are just 2 sides of the same coin)
Liberty consists not in doing what we like and want, but in having the right view and ability to choose what we do as well as its consequence

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

keep hosting, surfing, exchanging and growing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met a Polish volunteer by chance in Beijing in 2005, hosted him without knowing existence of CS and hanged around with him for several days before I came to France for my study, he was working for some great lovely projets ( we can probably call it family NGO) with his wife to help kids in difficulties in the rural area of south-west China, this humain experience gave me so much more than a "simple happy time", I've appreciated,and want to continue.

Interests

Sprititual exploraions in all forms
Travel and share, music, reading, cinema, bodhichitta paths
All sorts of creative production including creative exchange (those that can inspire both me and others)

  • arts
  • poetry
  • dancing
  • flamenco
  • environment
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • philosophy
  • volunteering
  • adventure
  • cultures
  • spirituality
  • buddhism
  • alternative medicine
  • alternative living
  • dharma

Music, Movies, and Books

There are quite a lot...as indications:

Music: basically what we call independent and alternative music, rock,indie,folk, electronic, recently a lot of world music and spiritual music, also flamenco, blues...well I just love the music! ( I just wrote a phd dissertation about rock music in Chine in fact)

Films: part of the "Author cinema" ( Krzysztof Kieslowski,Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders, Sergio Leone; Pedro Almodovar, Andrei Tarkovsky, Miyazaki hayao, Kar Wai Wong 王家卫, Ang Lee李安, etc)

some personal favor ( Enlish Patient, The Big Blue, Brokeback Mountain, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ŒBefore sunset, Before sunrise, Wings of Desire, Underground, Paris Texas, La Double Vie de Véronique, Le décalogue, Le hasard, Fight Club, Samsara...)

Books: Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Henry Miller
WANG Xiaobo 王小波, Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, Stefan Zweig, Saint Exupéry, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, etc)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Letting myself drop totally and found out there's no ground in the end

Teach, Learn, Share

Could give some chinese and french courses (language teaching is my mainly job for the moment)
Follower of Bouddha, spiritual seeker
If you're interested in some not-so-mainstream chinese music (rock, alternative, indie, others) and art scene , maybe I can give you some advices or references;

Learning Flamenco dance and the ukulele
Want to learn spanish and energetic medicine, genuine Taichi 太极拳

In a bigger way,since the knowledge, the potential and the energy of world has no boundary, I always want to learn more, in order to finally understand myself and possibly the others better

I would like to share anything that may benefit myself and others in a way that all of us would find them beneficial

What I Can Share with Hosts

Human experience

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, France

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