Category Archives: Philosophy-Zen Buddhism

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*The Art Walk

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*The Art Walk

I am a native New Yorker. I love my city and I always have contributed toward making it better. I want to quiet down Grand Street in my neighborhood. The blasting car horns are excessive and rude drivers coming off the FDR drive queuing up to cross the Williamsburg Bridge are impatient and uncaring about the noise.

After the street is quiet I would like to line it with benches all the way from Soho to the Colliers Park on the FDR drive. Eventually I want to work on enhancing the beautiful parks that are all along Grand Street and on the islands that bisect the street. I would like to create a beautiful Art Walk from the Soho area, from the galleries, to Colliers Park. Then people can walk, talk, sit and enjoy the day, artwork, and city. The walk will do great things for the business in the area, it will increase it considerably, and it will make everything safer because of more people on the street. It will contribute to the quality of life in the city for tourists as well as the citizens who live here. I am a successful sculptor (www.sculptorhantz.com) and I have many artists’ friends and gallery associates that are interested in contributing sculpture to the betterment of the city.

If you would like to help with this worthwhile project please contact me at Sculptorhantz@gmail.com. Together we can do it. Life is Action.

 

Satoru
www.awaytolive.com

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ATTITUDE / TRANSFORMATION

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I am amazed by the response to my new book. Thank you for reading it. And I am more than pleasantly surprised at the emails I received inquiring what the next topic will be in the A Way To series.
The multitudes of requests seem to want an expanding of the topics about relationships and health and coincidently these are the very topics that I am currently working on.
But until then…

The national game of Russia is chess. It is a game of perfect information. There are feints but no bluffs. This is why Khrushchev, confronted by imponderables, backed down from the nuclear conformation. Poker on the other hand was originated in the U. S. A. It is played here most avidly and expertly. The combination of risk, guile, open aggression and refined calculation reflects America and its frontier mentality. Kennedy was not even obliged to show his cards.
In which month do the Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November.

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse.
“But why?” They asked, as they moved off.
Because he said, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”

Satoru
www.awaytolive.com

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Good news My book, A Way To Live – Zen will be out soon in EBook and soft cover. I will post it as soon as it is available. Thank you for following my blog.

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I used to have a handle on life but it broke. 

A Zen student reached the banks of a wide river. Looking out and across to the wide bank he saw his master on the far shore picking up flat white rocks. He called out to his teacher asking, “Master, how do I get to the other side?”  “Fool!” shouted the master; “You’re already on the other side!”

“Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t someone tell me?”

“I’m telling you now.”

Satoru

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When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.

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It used to be Think Yiddish, dress British and talk Chinese.  Now it’s, Talk Black, think White, love Yellow, and act Green.

Be careful of the computer age and the Internet information age.  It is becoming easier to download information a second or third time then to memorize it.  We no longer have to remember anything. Just Google it and the machine remembers for us. We are actually spending our lives in front of a screen mixing, mashing, downloading, uploading and feeding the network.

This magnified, collaborative interaction, complexly ebbed, into our environment and lives, is morphing into our identity.

Satoru
www.awaytolive.com

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New Year resolution

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Follow the three R’s: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions

There is only one time to wake up…now.  

One of the joys of life is beginning.  Learning anything is a new beginning and a human evolution. Pride is the greatest obstacle to learning.  This is why children, without self-awareness and ego, learn most easily and why some vain adults cannot learn at all.

Read more great literature.

Satoru
www.awaytolive.com