User Comments - dwfndley

Posted on: Detective Li 3: The Broken Glass

oh my god, I'm having a heart-attack... that was the most riveting, nerve-wrenching    episode  ever !

what was john going to mail out..

Posted on: Detective Li 3: The Broken Glass

Another excellent lesson.

Posted on: Bad Service Restaurant

okok I'm going to write out all of John's inner thoughts in this one:

25sec (I'm not gonna put up with it)

3:30 he says 'full of anger' (I'm not)

--at this point I get the feeling (from jenny,) that you yelled pretty hard

Gosh these are so subtle I almost miss them, but about 5:50 or so you speak a fluent sentence of chinese, and then (..fluent, because I am...) (Jenny also acknowledges that that was the voice you were hired for)

hmmm... When you were talkign to the waitress, did you say something along the lines of, 'ok, I'm not getting up' when you were getting up, in response to her blatantly denying something obviously being witnessed? hmmm...

Posted on: Pedestrian Peril

hahaha-- again, more subtle than usual, though; right in the beginning: (john) welcome to another upper-intermediate lesson <<it's not>>

It's Chinesepod Upper-Intermediate, John-- not college qualified upper-intermediate! gotta let it go, man...

Posted on: To Love or Be Loved

I think that the one who gives it (love) has more power than the one who recieves it (or 'holds back') because the one who loves can always take it back-- and that always, always hurts. No?

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: History

You really didn't already know that history lesson? Didn't you ever see Jet Li's 'hero'?

I totally gave in and decided that the Qin emperor's tyranny, in all its bloody, horrible wrath was wholly righteous ! (-of course, since it happened, then by the law of nature, it is Dao. 'Necessary' from the perspective of the philosophy of evolutionary,historical progression.)

-but I meant that, (and john, too,) that the actual material being taught was too easy.

(PS I hope you don't think that 'Li Pu' is worth 15 minutes listening to John and Jenny, no matter how much we love to hear them talk)

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: History

hahaha-- around 11:15, Jenny asks John which student he likes best, John answers "Li Feng", but then you hear just after that 'don't care' =p maybe he doesn't say it... really.. does nobody else hear these? -Not listening close enough?

They are almost like whispers echoing in the valleys of distant mountains. (well this one was pretty loud..)

P.S. there are so many of these that are mostly a waste of a student's time if he is really at the Upper Intermediate level. John felt this way, too, at this point... but it wasn't exactly his place to point this out.

Posted on: Yoga

Jenny has a very down-to-earth philosophy ('this is it' attitude) which is prime and excellent, but she dimisses the idea of 'enlightenment' at the same time. She's very authoritative, and this has a significant impact on John, who had once believed in the possibility of some kind of 'enlightenment', but has since been disillusioned.

I have the philosophical and experiential foundations for 'enlightenment' from the Taoist 'chan' perspective. it is not 'transcendental' (like many buddhists or indians or 'taoists' might think of it,) but it completely opens the mind to the Tao, (as 'wu-wei',) brings the body into consistent states of orgasmic bliss, and even seems to make one 'psychic', (if you understand how it is possible to 'communicate' without communicating.)

If any the Cpod team is interested I can explain this Taoist Chan method of enlightenment-- genuine and without corruption, so that you might also immediately experience the first unfoldings of enlightenment. (though of course it would be up to you to make it a consistant realization throughout the day.)

Posted on: SBTG: Confucius

yeah Confucius wasn't as good as Jesus, though, was he? just another cowardly dogmatist-- nothing better to do than groveling and people's feet and telling them what was right. He should have tried lifting weights or something.

All the real men were out raping and pillaging, yeah?

Posted on: SBTG: Sun Yatsen

LONG LIVE THE HISTORICAL INDIVIDUALS -would it kill the chinesepod cast to actually make these lessons educational? ...I guess you'd have to do that in the advanced section... you should get to it...