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Bushido Success and Leadership

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The more successful you are the easier it is to lead. If you have success you can afford better advisors, food, health care, and most of all you have more energy. Seek out an older successful person and ask their advice. Consider the information they give you with a view toward change and having a vision. Stop everything and listen to the quiet to have contact with your intuition and creative thoughts. Forget about multitasking and focus on doing one thing with quality and excellence. Life is action, but do not confuse activity with progress. Satoru

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Bushido Attitude

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A strong wind comes over me. I know this wind from Alaska where it was called the hawk. It bites into my flesh taking bits from my soul and courses through me. There is no color around me. I look back at my trail, a being crawling over a checkerboard. I was saving the game of chess for when I got older. Then I would have time and money to drink fine red wine and learn the game. When death came for me I could play him and forestall the inevitable. I waited too long. My body is just a hollow shell, coupled with diminishing strength and the death of a thousand cuts. But the wind now changes from an arctic chill to invigorating energy and I enjoy the feeling of still being alive. I look ahead and take one more step.

We possess nothing certainly except the past- yet to live we must exist only in the present. Satoru

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Faith and Reality

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A true moral religion proselytizes only through good deeds or ethical information. The religion includes both sexes, accepts all moral affiliations, embraces all reasonable, intelligent, modern people, and ideas. If any coercion, or force of any kind, is used to assert the religious conviction then the faith is transformed into a political policy. The religious conviction is then diminished and is only being used to obtain power, ascendency, and absolute control. A faith that justifies violence in God’s name is blasphemy. Beware of a political movement masquerading as a religion. Since the future will always come before we are ready to give up the present, today we must denounce religiously motivated violence and plant the seeds that will rescue the world from superstition and tyranny. Satoru

 

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Zen Flexibility

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Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

I have been told that it will be very difficult for a New Yorker to assimilate into the South’s culture. It will be hard for a Brooklyn Buddhist to absorb a rednecks’ country philosophy. To them I say, Give me a lift and I’ll hay your wagon. God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy. Can I get a halleluiah? Can I get an Amen?

Satoru

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Enthusiasm

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The etymology of enthusiasm is, to have god within.

It would be comforting to have a special faith, and to believe in resurrection, afterlife, or reincarnation. But after thousands of years of humanities believing in these fairy tales, no evidence or proofs have ever surfaced. Reincarnation is the most appealing to me of the many choices. But if I analyze the millenniums that wisdom should have accumulated in reincarnated individuals, there should be more talented and smart people on the earth, including more statesmen. Instead we have orangutans running for office, politicians that only think of power and personal enrichment, an unholy alliance between big government, big business, and big media, all benefiting by billions of dollars from this partnership. How are we to have faith, have enthusiasm about trying to improve the world, and ourselves, faced with the realities of our lives? It ain’t easy, but we still have to try.

Perhaps, to be more objectively analytical, considering action and time are life’s most important concepts, we should concentrate our beliefs and faiths in taking advantage of what we have and do it in a timely fashion. In this life, all we see and touch, is all we will ever have. This is not a dress rehearsal, soak it up and do it now. Satoru