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website dating

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Satoru, I have broken off with my sweetheart and am searching the Internet for a new love. But I am in conflict with my Zen proclivity and the disappointment of my digital search. I read your last blog and laughed as I applied your/the Zen advice. My problem was completely alleviated. Can you help me with this dilemma?

The  dating websites should be declared a gigantic, permeating, buyer-beware zone. The most obvious problem is that they do not vet potentials for truthfulness so the biggest impediment in all-online dating is dishonesty. However, if you accept this fact, then screen very carefully, you might find a winner among the many players. But you must move on from a screen-dependent life and rethink your relationship to technology and our new always connected culture and its many forms of digital exhaustion. For years television and weed was a great zone out form of relaxation and a way to escape involvement. Now the digital age has given us an interactive diversion that sucks us in to believing that we are connected and refining our relationships and lists. Conversation, physical interaction, visual stimulation, sensatory experience, and significant bonding connections have taken a back seat to our computers, pads and cell phones. Not to denigrate the fantastic accomplishments of communication and facilitations that the digital age has given to us. But, interpersonal relationships, eye-to-eye contact, and acquiring a new honey, are about being in a state of communication, living physically, and in the now.

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Self Realization.

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Satoru,
“I love your blog, your book, your advice, but how do I start? I want to make my life better. I do not think I have the discipline. I still think of the pains, the mistakes and the time that I have wasted. Help me please.”

If you concentrate on all the hurts that life has given to you, you are looking backwards. Perhaps you need to stop and realign your focus. What if you have your hands tied behind you and you are dumped into the ocean? You choices have been narrowed to only survival. What do you do to survive?

But your circumstances are not that dire. Maybe instead of focusing on your problems you need to take a break. When was the last time you just stopped and listened to some music, the true gift of the gods. Have you tried to meditate? What can be so difficult about just sitting and breathing? Be receptive and open to the lessons, chances, and opportunities right in front of you. Life is action, but it is not a sprint, it is a marathon.

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Zen and Life.

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Zen and life are too important to be taken gravely. Life is a cosmic theater where we should endeavor to play our essential roles significantly while not taking them too seriously. The powerful play goes on and you want to develop a verse, edit, and rewrite your own story. Your reach should exceed your grasp, so keep your feet in the mud but aim for the stars. If you only grab the moon accept it cheerfully.

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Trigger Warning.

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Trigger Warning. This is a preemptive alert, issued by a professor or institution, indicating that material presented in class might be sufficiency graphic to spark symptoms of stress, trauma or disorder. This professor, Satoru, and his course, A Way To Live – Zen, assert that, there is no trigger warning for living your life. Zen gives expression to many discomfiting and difficult ideas to enlarge a person’s comprehension and experience without care for the greater cultural preoccupation of achieving safety. Consciousness rising requires dispelling ignorant ideas, expanding ones reference’s, and achieving a rejuvenating awareness of your physical body.

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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