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Last week Chen Sheng-wei (陳昇瑋), Taiwan AI Academy’s CEO and E. Sun Financial Holding’s CTO, passed away from a stroke. This was a big loss to the tech and AI community, and we’d like to take the time to highlight some of his accomplishments for the ecosystem.

He has been dubbed “Taiwan’s AI guru” and “the godfather of Taiwan’s data science” because of his contributions to the community, making data science known as his north star, and growing AI talent. Taiwan AI Academy, for example, nurtures top AI talent through intensive four-month training programs to help industries in Taiwan gain a competitive edge in the AI revolution and industrial development. They offer different tracks depending on the students’ skills and needs, such as programs for technical professionals versus ones for business managers. They have a roster of heavyweight AI experts on the panel of teachers who have teaching experience as well. Taiwan AI Academy has so far cultivated around 6,000 young people around the country in 2 years, according to the academy.

The National Development Council (NDC) had previously recruited him to serve as a government advisor in drafting an open-data policy due to his expertise. One of his latest projects was the Taiwan Renaissance Platform, which was launched earlier this year with the aim of helping Taiwanese businesses upgrade and transfer from their existing, more traditional business models, in preparation for the challenges ahead.

In terms of his background, Chen Sheng-wei received his PhD. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University. He started his career at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s top research institute, at the age of 26. In 2017, he helped Academia Sinica to build its first popular science website to make science more approachable to the general public. During his 18-year tenure of service to the country’s research pool, Taiwanese manufacturers, and future workforce, he published over 130 research papers and founded the Taiwan Data Science Society alongside Taiwan AI Academy.

What kind of lessons can founders take away from Chen Sheng-wei?

1. Have a north star: when you have a big, lofty goal to reach, you essentially have a vision for your company. Keeping your north star in mind will ensure that you’re always moving in the right direction.

2. Users first: One of the biggest challenges in the early days of AI was education. The general public viewed AI in the lens of entertainment or sci-fi, which wasn’t that accurate. Chen Sheng-wei educated the public on the true nature of AI and the importance of data science in a format that best suited the public’s UX. The same kind of thinking can be applied to your users as well.

3. Give back to the community: One of the ways that Silicon Valley is so powerful is because everyone in the ecosystem understands the concept of “paying it forward”. Helping other founders and stakeholders will open doors of opportunity in the future. See if you can use the COVID-19 situation in a positive way to help others like Chen Sheng-wei did, for example by taking your data and turning it into content for your users / clients, or by onboarding offline clients affected by the virus to being online to drive sales.

Thank you Chen Sheng-wei for your contributions to Taiwan’s development, may you rest in peace.

Photo credit: Taiwan News

By: Natalie Feng Lin, Analyst

【慈悲喜捨：原來你也可以】YOU CAN DO IT TOO
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7月22日那天，放了一段師尊的開示視頻，關於窮人如何修資糧道，以及資糧道對我們生活的重要性。

一位師姐就與我分享她在希臘的善舉，並留言：

「看到師姐的發文..忍不住也發了ㄧ則...我也相信要多行善..我相信多或少不是重點。而是心意和盡力..後來我明白的是付出後會得到更多不一樣東西..」

我的回覆：

心靈的拓展應該是行善後最大的快樂。我想，很多人沒想到的，就是行善的感染力和主動性。

就如師尊這開示感染了我，讓我想和大家分享。你看到了這發文，你也與大家分享你的善行。

本來一件很小的善，但因為我們主動去告訴別人，灑了很多善種子。這個小善的感染力就因此擴大了。讀者讀了，真的去行善，小善也就變成大善了。

沒有人向我們求助，我們也會主動去帶快樂給人事物，甚至天天做，如飲食前的超度、師尊說的多對人友善等。這主動，也吻合了你說的心意和盡力。

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簡單的說：

我們的出生好不好
吃多好、用多少
學歷多高
我們的外貌、身材、健康
家山、家庭
我們貴人小人的多寡
智慧、財富、事業、人緣、本領
嫁的好不好、娶的好不好
生的孩子會否孝順、讀書、健康、快樂
我們有沒有福份遇到明師，從輪迴中解脫
聽不聽得懂佛法......

這些都是資糧道的範圍

如果你這一世很辛苦，處處都「遇難」，如「落難女子」逢不到英雄來救你，代表你前幾世沒有聚集好資糧。

從你的八字看，就能知曉這一切前世今生的因果。

我們主動，是很大的心意佈施。

社交媒體是我們很好修資糧道，結眾生緣的平台。

有的人用臉書來傳播欲望 - 哪裡吃、哪裡玩、買什麼東西、戀人放閃、親子關係多好等等。

不是不可以，但如果只貼這些，就未免浪費了修福的機緣。

多放些善的貼文，而非一些渲染貪嗔癡的內容，你會發現原來你也有這個能力帶給人們快樂、方便，拔起人家一絲絲的煩惱與苦。你心中得到的清安，是你最大的收穫，只是你從來沒有給自己機會去練習而已。

天生我才必有用，現在開始修資糧道，永遠都來得及。

四無量心偈：

願一切眾生具足樂及樂因，是慈無量。
願一切眾生脫離苦及苦因，是悲無量。
願一切眾生永住無苦安樂，是喜無量。
願一切眾生棄愛憎住平等，是捨無量。

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On 22nd of July, I posted a video of my Grandmaster’s Dharma discourse. He imparted on how the poor should accumulate resources, and the importance of resource accumulation to our daily living.

A Dharma Sister saw it, shared with me her kind deed in Greece and commented:

“After reading your post, I can’t help but post something too..I also believe in doing more good deeds..I believe it isn’t the quantity that matters, but the intent and doing your best that do. Later on, I learnt that after contributing, we will gain more things..”

My reply:

The expansion of the soul must be the biggest joy after performing a virtuous deed. I think what many people do not realise is the influencing power and initiative behind a good deed.

For example, this Dharma discourse from Grandmaster inspired me to share it with everyone. You shared your act of kindness with your readers, after seeing my post.

What was merely an insignificant deed of virtue became multiple seeds of kindness sowed only because we made the effort to share it with others. This seemingly small act of kindness grows in influence. When the readers implement what they read and go on to perform good deeds, this small virtuous act transforms into a huge one.

When no one asks for our help, we take the initiative to bring happiness to others. We do it everyday, like the prayers of deliverance before our every meal, and act upon what Grandmaster said: be friendly to others. This act of initiative matches the intent and best effort you mentioned.

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To put it simply:

The grade of family background that you are born into
How good the food you get to eat
How much you get to use daily
How great is your education
Our physical appearance, figure, health
Our family wealth
The family members we have
How many/little benefactors or difficult people we meet
Our wisdom, wealth, career, interpersonal relations, talents
Whether we marry a good spouse
Whether our children are filial, healthy, happy and can study
Whether we have the good fortune to meet a wise accomplished Teacher to guide us out of Samsara
Whether we can understand the Dharma...

All these and more fall under the scope of Resource Accumulation.

So if you meet with lot of difficulties in this life, aka the perpetual "damsel in distress" with no hero in sight to come rescue you, this means that you fail to accumulate sufficient resources for yourself in your previous lifetimes.

The signs will show up in your Bazi, giving a clear picture of your past and current lives.

Taking the initiative to do good is a very great giving example of putting in our best effort.

Social media is a wonderful platform for us to cultivate resource accumulation and mass positive affinities with the sentient beings.

Some people use Facebook to propagate desires, e.g. where to eat, where to have fun, what they bought, the romance between couples, the kinship between parents and children etc.

I'm not saying you cannot do that, but it would be a pity if you ONLY post that, for you are wasting the opportune affinity to cultivate more good fortune.

When you put up more posts of kindness, and doing away with posts that incite greed, hatred and ignorance, you will realise that you too have the ability to bring joy and convenience to people. You can also help others to eradicate some of their troubles and sufferings, no matter how slight.

The bliss of serenity you experience in your heart is the greatest reward you can present to yourself. It's just that you have never given yourself the opportunity to train this ability.

We are all born talented in something. It is never too late for you to start cultivating your resource accumulation and live a happier life.

The Four Immeasurables:

May all beings have happiness and the cause of happiness
May all beings be free of suffering and the cause of suffering.
May all beings never be disassociated from the supreme happiness which is without suffering.
May they remain in the boundless equanimity, free from both attachment to close ones and rejection of others.

【望聞問切】

Sir Isaac Newton's 1st Law of Motion:

"An object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change its state by an external force."

This reminds me of a how a vacant house has no Feng Shui influence to speak of. Unless a person comes in to stay.

The energy field from the human will stir up the energies dormant in the house.

This interaction will give rise to a good or bad pattern Feng Shui, that subsequently affects the occupant's life.

My job is to create good patterns and disrupt bad patterns.

People and their home Feng Shui cannot start, stop, or change direction all by themselves. It requires some force from the outside to catalyse a change.

I am like the external force as stated in the 1st Law.

But one of the greatest forces that I was taught early by Shifu to deal with...

Is the mental blocks in people.

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#1

I sometimes hear these from clients and readers.

"I am a logical person, so I am unsure what to think of Chinese Metaphysics."

This sounds like all geomancers are illogical people. 😄

No, we are thinking people too. Our parents didn't raise us up to be mystical beings like unicorns who poo rainbow.

The years we spend mastering our skills are in no way less comparable to your time in schools.

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"I want to keep an open mind, and hear what you have to say."

I have mixed feelings about this phrase, open mind.

Are we getting too westernised in our education, that anything not taught in school is considered unorthodox?

And to understand Chinese Metaphysics, something that's unique to our Chinese culture, needs an open mind?

Must be stifling to live with a closed mind like that.

It sometimes sound like they are doing me a favour when they need to open their minds to listen to me speak. 😄

When I probe further to ask what lead to their clamped minds, I get different answers.

Some blame it on their bad experiences with certain Feng Shui practitioners.

Some had parents/friends/spouses who learnt Chinese Metaphysics, yet these people aren't successful in any way for them to look up to.

A bad student doesn't always mean the teacher is lousy or the school sucks.

Others couldn't give me a logical answer. They just follow-the-herd.

In other words, it was an emotional decision for them to disregard our ancestral ancient wisdom.

Nothing logical about it.

讀這麼多書，卻不能夠說出一些像樣的話。

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"I am a scientific person, but I believe there is more to Science in this universe. So I'm somewhat curious about what Feng Shui can do for me."

I'm happy that you are making space to take in new knowledge. But some questions.

What Science did you study?

Only those developed by the Western civilisations?

How long and how much did you study?

How about the science that is developed by our ancestors?

Or are you so Ang-Mohdified that you only accept science from the Western world and not those from our roots?

If you formulate a hypothesis that Chinese Metaphysics is woowoo talk, what experiments have you carried out, how many and under what conditions?

Who monitors the experiments and how qualified is the person? Who are your test subjects? What is your sample size?

Or you assume your hypothesis stands as a well-established theory, without all these testing?

That would be disgracefully illogical, my Friend, and no way will you qualify to declare yourself as a scientific person.

Modern science is only about 400 years old.

Chinese Metaphysics spans over 5000 years.

How can a 400-year-old understand something as dense and complex as a 5000-year-old?

I hail from a pure Science background.

If you had spent the same effort as I did, learning from the right Teachers, you too would realise the Science in Chinese Metaphysics, instead of saying "there is more to Science".

Chinese Metaphysics is more scientific than modern Science in so many ways.

If only you know the experiments our ancestors did on themselves to establish this great vault of knowledge to benefit humanity.

My advice: don't be too quick to label others as unscientific or superstitious, when you know and did nothing.

書讀得少，不是一個好藉口去排斥我們古聖賢的智慧。

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I particularly like this example quoted by a well-known TCM professor and physician, 樊正倫教授, Prof Fan Zheng Lun. He is from China and has about 40 years of clinical experience. He has also appeared in several TV shows to talk about his experience.

He used this simple example to illustrate the difference in TCM and Western Medicine, to students in Beijing University:

「我給北大的學生們講課，他們問中醫、西醫有什么區別。簡單地說，夏天買西瓜，想買一個好瓜，你把那瓜拿起來，不管你會不會，拍一拍，聽一聽，看看樣子，看什么呢？對瓜望、聞、問、切。對不對？

我說如果一個很有經驗的老瓜農，都不用拍，他一看，他就告訴你，這瓜是生的，那瓜是熟的，為什么？觀其象，知其數。西醫怎么辦，要不就切開觀看，要不就從根那兒抽點水，從上面抽點水，再從中間抽點水，到實驗室化驗一下。然后告訴你，這是熟的，這是甜的。你要問他是沙瓤還是肉瓤，那得用X線照一照。老瓜農不用，他把瓜的產地弄明白，把今年的氣候弄明白，就敢告訴你，這瓜就是沙瓤，這就是中醫和西醫的區別。」

My translation:

"When I was lecturing to the students in Beijing University, they asked me what the difference in Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine is.

Simply put, when you buy a watermelon in summer, you want to get a good one. Whether you know how to do it or not, you will hold the watermelon up, and knock on it. You will listen to the sound and examine it.

What are you looking at? You are looking, listening, questioning and feeling the pulse (TCM four ways of diagnosis), aren't you?

I say, if it's a very experienced and veteran watermelon farmer, he would not even need to knock on the watermelon. With a single look, he can tell you that this melon is raw and that melon is ripe. Why? He observes its appearance, and he knows it in his mind.

What does Western medicine do?

They will either cut it up to examine, or extract some liquid from the stem, the top, and the middle part of the melon. The liquids will be sent to the laboratory for analysis, and then they will tell you this melon is ripe and this melon is sweet.

If you ask him whether the melon flesh is firm or mushy, he will need to do an X-ray to know.

But not the veteran watermelon farmer. When he figures out the production place of the watermelon and the climatic weather of this year, he will dare to tell you that this melon has firm and crunchy flesh.

That is the difference between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine."

A western approach is not always the best way to understand everything.

It is also not the ONLY way to make sense of the world around us.

If you have been misunderstanding our Chinese ancestral wisdom, I say it's high time to build new neural pathways.

We have high brain plasticity.

Live like you own it.

Don't look down on the wisdom of our Chinese ancestors.

I don't subscribe to nonsense like things are fated.

It is always the people that refuse to change.