Comments on: How I learnt Chinese, part 1: Where it all started https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-1-why-i-started-learning-chinese/ A better way of learning Mandarin Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marko (马口) Schütz Schmuck https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-1-why-i-started-learning-chinese/#comment-108738 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:30:22 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=7712#comment-108738 I just came across this today. I’ve started learning Chinese sometime during the beginning of the pandemic. I didn’t really have any reason for starting, but, like you, I’d had a history of interest in martial arts as well as philosophy/spirituality. And, again like you, I’ve listened and/or read all of Alan Watts. At the time I picked up Chinese, I had practiced Zhan Zhuang 站桩 for some years already. So, after a while I thought “wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read some original literature on this?” And similarly, I’d like to find/read some books that resonate with the writing of Rupert Spira as I’m sure also exist in Chinese.

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-1-why-i-started-learning-chinese/#comment-17834 Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:19:55 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=7712#comment-17834 In reply to Duke Vukadinovic.

I love Alan Watts too! I’ve listened to everything I could find by him and I think he’s had a considerable impact on my way of thinking, too.

]]> By: Duke Vukadinovic https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-1-why-i-started-learning-chinese/#comment-17822 Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:00:17 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=7712#comment-17822 I really enjoy reading this post because my path of learning Japanese is very similar to yours. I was also inspired by Zen Buddhism so I started thinking about and reading up on Eastern philosophy and listened and read everything I could find by Alan Watts, who has had a great impact on the way I think.

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