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Dec.21.2010
Meditation is not a mystery and you don't have to be in a convent to do it, and you don't need to separate yourself from society and live in a cave, and you don't need special prayers, etc. You don't have to be a Hindu, a Yoga, or a Buddhist monk to gain the true benefits of meditation. You don't...
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Nov.23.2010
Superfragilistic Amniotic Intercourse
Title hardly makes any sense, right? Wrong!
Attempting to decipher the rhyme or reason for things of potential global impact goes against the pall of rational thought that is of value to the human race. Kind of like calling an otter a threat to walruses.
Let's...
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Nov.11.2010
Dear Readers,
The following conversation took place this morning via IM with a friend in China. We have had conversations in the past and I felt that the import of this particular event would be of interest to all of you who follow my work. Ying Wu is a school teacher and her English is...
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Oct.12.2010
Hanshi Damashi is a collection of apothegms along with commentary that expresses the feelings of a contemporary practitioner of ancient samurai philosophy. Each of the adages is particularly composed with the idea of fulfilling the sub-title of the book: To Amuse, Bemuse, Confuse and Defuse....
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Sep.27.2010
Practicing Self-Revealization Acceptance to Empower Your Life
Practicing Self-Revealization Acceptance is the second book in the opus of Self-Revealization Acceptance, an original concept in personal life reality facilitation discovered by the author after many years of experience with healing...
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Sep.19.2010
Mokubei’s Music Lesson
Mokubei, the wise man, was known to be a wonderful flute player. Sometimes he would sit outside of his hut and play his flute while looking at the moon for no other reason than the pleasure it gave him. People would come from far and near just to sit and listen....
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Sep.12.2010
One of the beauties of being an author and a philosopher is the random thought process put down on paper. When I began to put together apothegms, I didn't know they were apothegms, essentially worthy little words of insight from a poetic perspective. I thought they were just “hip”, if you will, one...
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Sep.11.2010
Sonny Rollins @ 80 Birthday Concert
Beacon Theater, New York City
September 10, 2010
A phenomenal bit of good luck must be attributed to the gods for my ability to have captured two ducats for this extraordinary event that can certainly never happen again.
That Mr. Rollins has...
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Sep.03.2010
The Absurdity of Afghanistan:
The Wasteful Potential Brilliance of Gen. David Petraeus
and the Reality of Ignoring Sun Tzu's Art of War
The intelligent warlord understands that entrance into conflict is senseless without an attitude of complete and total victory.
Congratulations to Gen....
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Aug.28.2010
You are on your way towards enlightenment. But you will never attain it. Why? Because you are finite in form and, therefore, cannot comprehend the Infinite.When you attempt to define the Infinite, your finite thinking will interfere with It. The "Spirit of the Thing Itself" is thereby...
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Aug.27.2010
Meditation 2 from The Living Tao - Meditations on the Tao Te Ching to Empower Your Life
If there is one thing then there is anotherIf there is good then there is evilIf there is grief then there is joyIf something is beautiful then something is uglyNeither is more important than the otherAll come...
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Aug.25.2010
from The Sword in the Boardroom
Knowing the manner in which people carry themselves is of utmost importance to a person's overall poise: mentally and physically. I personally depise slothful and shoddy attitudes because I am aware that the mind and body maintain an individual's demeanor. This...
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Aug.22.2010
from the Book of Five Rings-The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy
The name of this book is Five Rings. Buddhist teachings contain the five elements of the universe: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and No-thing-ness.
In the Book of Earth, the strategy of my school is...
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Jul.28.2010
Without getting melodramatic, I will tell you about my earliest memories as a “writer.”
I could not have been more than nine or ten years of age when I would hide in my grandfather's basement in the house where I lived in Brooklyn. I would go there and, into my secret place, I would sit and think...
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Jul.27.2010
I have posted a short new video, a visual introduction to Self-Revealization, the first and foremost Reality Facilitation concept ever presented to the modern world. Acceptance, http://www.redroom.com/video/self-revealization-acceptance Viewers have a choice to watch either the smaller embedded...
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If you're gonna play, play. Don't play!”
—Stephen F Kaufman - Hanshi's Apothegms
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Stephen F. Kaufman is an acknowledged master speaker and educator and a teacher of ancient wisdom made practical for contemporary global society who entertains and educates audiences and groups by presenting the notions of what the ancient...
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