Category Archives: Life Lessons

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Pigeons and Rats. 

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If you were in organized crime, pigeons and rats, stool pigeons, and betraying rats would be synonymous. Unfortunately, they are still synonymous, even if you are just an ordinary citizen. In Ahearn Park, between Grand Street and East Broadway, two older women with shopping carts full of crumbs, old bread, seeds, and other foods spread out twenty-foot lines of food on the ground. The feed pigeons don’t eat in the daytime; the rats feast on at night. The pigeon population and the rat population have doubled. The renewed Ahearn Park is supposed to be an enduring oasis in the Lower East Side. But the benches are covered with bird poo, and the rats at night ruin it.

One day, I saw these women spreading out their garbage in the middle of the park. My neighbors sitting in the park said, “See, this is what they do every day about this time.” Since the 7th precinct was just a block away, I walked over and spoke to the young cop with beautiful hair and an attitude at the desk. I told him the situation. He made a call on his cell phone, and by the time I walked back to the park, the cops were there talking to the two women.

I asked the two policemen, “Isn’t this a summons offense for throwing so much garbage in the street? They said, “We can’t give them a summons unless we see them doing it.” 
I answered, “Walk away to your patrol car across the street, and you will see them throwing the garbage. The cops left and were not seen again. The woman came back and dumped the trash on the floor. It is not against the law to feed the pigeons. It is against the law to dump garbage and feed the rats. I know the pigeons spread hepatitis, and the rats can spread all sorts of diseases. I went back to the precinct the following day. I received a cop’s stupid response.

“It’s New York, Whatayaexpect? 

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Casting Zen Pearls

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Perhaps the most significant attribute a person can develop for success in life is the adaptability to change, and the ability to embrace change itself. Examine the last few years of your life. How much has changed? How many things in your existence have you altered? How much have you progressed? Most of us are arrogant and stubborn in our interpretation of our self-image and our life’s. We are comfortable with what we have developed, and the progress we have made, and cannot accept a quantum leap forward because it requires first unlearning a behavior and then, substituting an unfamiliar action in order to obtain a rational change forward.

If we always do what we have always done, although it is easier, then we will always get the same results. But the few opportunities to radically improve our lives usually are disguised in alternative actions and uncomfortable beginnings that require new efforts and a change in our behavior and our preconceived limitations.

So, luck, or in reality preparation meeting opportunity, only works if you are flexible and have the scope to face the realization that you have been; procrastinating, preoccupied, not prioritizing, and making excuses, (which in reality is just a well-planned lie,) and not making time to alter your direction and grow.

So, meditate on living in the now and being absolutely engaged, open yourself to new opportunities, cultivate a more objective persona, simplify and plan, and adapt as your new mantra, Life is Action.

Satoru

 

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Sense of Humor

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Exercise probably helps to sustain your life more then any other factor. It allows us to have more focus, energy, and relaxation because it reduces stress. The second most important factor in prolonging your life is probably a sense of humor. Laughing also deactivates stress hormones and aids the immune system. People with a developed sense of humor tend to be more creative and more adapt at solving the many problems that life gives us. It improves many cognitive functions. Most of all, it helps people get along with others.

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Imagination

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Many people are compulsively into control because they lack imagination. They do not internalize that life is not linear, and that communication, growth, people, and activities have multiplicities of variables. This is why many administrators, supervisors, and relationships destroy initiative, because they cannot make dynamic plans without hope and conceptualize future inconsistencies. Hope cannot be projected without imagination and change. Situations and the future have to be conceptualized as different; you cannot just concentrate on attempting to perfect the present. How do we learn to modulate our control, increase our essential imagination, and expand our scope? Is the answer in the question? Satoru

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Bird Song

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I posted this blog before but I just wanted you to hear this one birds song. Turn up your volume and turn down the base.

I am on a tiny island just off a small archipelago in the Caribbean. I do not listen to music or watch television. The biggest event in the evening is dinner. At night, I reconnect with the sky, seeing thousands of stars because there are no lights. In the evening I read on the terrace overlooking, with a 180-degree view, miles of still ocean and a pink-sanded beach were eons ago the hourglass of time spilled its contents. The view coupled with the isolation is spiritual and I have reverence for the sky, the ocean, and the sun. The only two sounds are the rhythmic waves breaking on the shore and the song of the birds. The birds have an immense medley of thirty or so wobbles, squeak, whistles, beeps and songs. I am transfixed by the sounds of the birds and just listen to their song. In the background, the silver waves are a steady heartbeat. The cool breeze blows silently off the ocean and I breath deeply the fresh air. It is a calm and quiet peace.

Satoru