Art By Tali Landsman

The paintings below are a creative interpretation of the crowded apartment living in Hong Kong: The photos below are of creative sweet Desserts in the shape of a Ramen bowl, a fish pond and Kimchi pickles: Enjoying Hong Kong It was a strange sight indeed. Right outside of the huge steel and glass Apple Computer store in Kowloon, Hong Kong, we saw dozens of hawkers selling shrink-wrapped boxes with the new iPhone X for MORE money than it sells for inside the Apple store. We did not want to buy the new iPhone X, but we were puzzled about why anyone in his right mind would buy the new iPhone from a kid with a suitcase on the pavement, when the Apple store was right there, and to add insult to injury, to pay MORE money for it from the hawkers with the open suitcases or coolers. We decided to ask the hawkers with the suitcases. A young woman with a boxed phone in each hand, told us that her iPhone X’s are indeed originals, not fakes. She said that they charge about $65 MORE t...

Love The World That Is Not There... Many times, I would like to share my thought process on this blog, but I am aware that the way I think is not one that is shared by many. We are all trained to fit in with the prevailing cultural and social norms, and to use ‘politically correct’ words, behaviors, and beliefs. But as a spiritual student, I am often torn between the way I still misperceive the world, and the eternal, calming, loving, unifying nature of the Truth. So here is a description of my thought process, how I initially observe and judge situations and how I correct my thoughts and guide them to be more in alignment with Truth. From Zagreb, Croatia, we flew back to Colorado. It was the end of hunting season in the mountains of Colorado, and as always, I felt disheartened to be in the mountains at this time of the year. In order to keep the mountains clean, the county had placed large empty barrels by the side of the roads, to allow hunters to deposit the fur and animal parts tha...