Michael Napoli CP#3

I enjoyed my meeting with Pei. I was feeling more emotional than I had wished for, so our conversations had a more philosophical turn. We talked about life, philosophy, and buddhism. I discussed spiritual power with him. It is a subject that fascinates me. I am Greek Orthodox. I have read books written by Monks about Spiritual powers that they possessed. Pei is a Theist. He mentioned to me that in his country, the Bhuddist practice of meditation has much spiritual power. I believe him. I think the most powerful part of the body is the mind. I talked with him about China's place as a world power. They have huge interests in Africa. I talked with about American Chinese vs regular Chinese food. I suggested that maybe their is no such thing as American Chinese food there is just commercialized Chinese food. Pei said Commercialized food is American. This was profound.