I had not heard of the Chinese term Yuanfen until I keyed up an Apple Podcast search last night for podcasts about "Synchronicity" and found the episode titled, 'Synchronicity: Medium Alicia’s Journey of Fate, Truth & Tattoos' at 'The Medium's Table' podcast.
"Yuรกn (traditional Chinese: ็ทฃ; simplified Chinese: ็ผ; pinyin: yuรกn; Pe̍h-ลe-jฤซ: iรขn) or Yuanfen (traditional Chinese: ็ทฃๅ; simplified Chinese: ็ผๅ; pinyin: yuรกnfรจn; Pe̍h-ลe-jฤซ: iรขn-hลซn), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad chances and potential relationships. It can also be translated as "destiny, luck as conditioned by one's past", or "natural affinity among friends." It is comparable to the concept of karma in Buddhism, but yuanfen is interactive rather than individual. The driving forces and causes behind yuรกnfรจn are said to be actions done in previous incarnations."
""Affinity occasion" could be a good translation of yuรกnfรจn, as yuรกnfรจn depends on the probability, or chance, of meeting (or seeing) someone in the real world at any given time and place, and involves both persons feeling as if they have already known each other for a very long time, even though in reality, they have not."
Memoir of a Snail?๐ฅ✍๐๐ฌ๐ฆ
I've had two tattoos done recently with a third one booked and with some rather yuanfen like things occurring relating to getting those tattoos being done.
So, maybe a 4th one is on the cards now?-)
The 2024 AFL Grand Final Line Up Sure Brings a Smile to My Face?๐
And yes, that 39% Rotten Tomatoes rating is about right, but it was an interesting movie all the same, and probably a movie that I was fated to see yesterday.
Now the weird thing here for me and my son is that I took him to see Bob Dylan to play Bluesfest and the curtain raiser for Dylan was a blind indigenous singer whose eyes where just white like the indigenous spirt children in the movie, and that singer has since passed away -
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| Bob Dylan at the 2011 Byron Bay Bluesfest |
I Wonder if "Synchromystic" Chris Knowles Will Be Doing a Deep Dive into the 2024 AFL Grand Final and Katy Perry? ๐๐ฆข๐๐ฆ๐๐
As soon as we hit the bridge the skies lit up with lightning and the sound of thunder could be heard.
We were told by security that we could go up to the "sky deck" as it was closed because of the storm, so we pretty much were confined to the gambling floor Sunday night and my son decided to play the slots asking me which machine I thought he should play.
I told him that I thought one of the '50 Lions' machines might prove lucky, since my new Brisbane Lions tattoo was tingling on my arm:-)
Easter Sunday at Bluesfest
And once we made it across the bridge a hard rain was a fallin' as Bob might sing:-)
To put that into Australian terms, it was pissing down.
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| The Brisbane Star Casino gambling floor |
Turned out my hunch was right, and he won a $69 dollar jackpot, then moved onto another machine and won a $42 jackpot ... and then he blew the lot on a "lucky Leprechaun" machine called 'Mine, Mine, Mine':-(
Then we decided to leave the casino and head back over the bridge to Southbank where the car was parked, since the rain seemed to have eased.
But as we hit the bridge the rain started up again until we got back to the car drenched, as there is hardly any cover on that new bridge.
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| Roger Hodgson at Bluesfest |
I guess we should have taken the long way home and crossed the river via 'The Goodwill' Bridge instead?-)
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