Unfortunately it’s still trial and error. Check out e.g Ovpn, Astrill, Mullvad though. You can always email and ask different providers as well. Though it’s best it you set it up before visiting China. A HK sim through Airalo or similar also works.

Yeah, I’ve heard Shanghai for example has zones where the GFW is much more lax?

It’s better to pay for a VPN provider that is verified to work in China. And no, they won’t kidnap you for using a VPN as some people write here. It’s a non-issue just to bypass the GFW. The issue is when you write to a Chinese audience things that the CCP do not like.

You don’t have to set up your own VPN. Many public providers work.

It’s crazy that this is an opinion that people really have. I don’t like authoritarian states and I have a lot of issues with the CCP, but this isn’t true at all. Loads of native Chinese living in China uses a VPN. They don’t care about it.

They have. I don’t know what people are talking about in this post. It’s bypassable easily, and the CCP won’t kill you for it. There are so many Chinese using aVPN themselves to bypass GFW

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Glad to hear you find these ideas useful! I’ve been a practicing Zen Buddhist for nearly a decade now, and Alan Watts was of course my first foray into exploring these ideas, even though he himself wouldn’t describe himself as a Buddhist. I was also raised non-religious and I’d say I was a staunch atheist for some of my teenage years, but the solace and insight I’ve found in Zen has been life-changing in many ways. It also made me way more interested in religion as a concept, and what religion means to people in general.

While all you mentioned might share some similar ideas, I think it’s difficult to group them together completely and find an encompassing term. But Watts, Ram Dass and MIyamoto Musashi at least were all inspired by dharmic religions. Stoicism shares similarities with Zen, but is in many ways also quite different. I’d hesitate to say too much though as I haven’t looked into stoicism a lot. Also, Zen is as much Buddhism as Buddhism is Zen. The first patriarch of Zen was Mahakashyapa who was the only one among the Buddha’s audience who understood what the Buddha meant when he raised a lotus flower in the air without saying anything :)

I’d say a fair idea is to host your own personal website with your resume, if you’re capable and/or want to learn. There are often examples you can base your portfolio on.

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I can relate, but luckily I got used to it :) I can sit in silent meditation without issues nowadays. I hope your situation improves, I know your pain

And I’m here thinking that I have too many things already in my 1 room apartment 🙃

What I find mad is that people are seriously depressed about this on /r/Tiktok. Yeah sure, I understand small creators now having a tough time having their business disappearing, but people are literally saying that TikTok was their only source of information and that they don’t know what to do now??