Month: June 2015

The Train Story

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This is my favourite philosophical story from Aikido

The Train Story,

by Terry Dobson, Direct student of Ueshiba O’Sensei

THE TRAIN CLANKED and rattled through the suburbs of Tokyo on a drowsy spring afternoon. Our car was comparatively empty – a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks going shopping. I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedgerows.

At one station the doors opened, and suddenly the afternoon quiet was shattered by a man bellowing violent, incomprehensible curses. The man staggered into our car. He wore laborer’s clothing, and he was big, drunk, and dirty. Screaming, he swung at a woman holding a baby. The blow sent her spinning into the laps of an elderly couple. It was a miracle that she was unharmed.

Terrified, the couple jumped up and scrambled toward the other end of the car. The laborer aimed a kick at the…

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Inner State is far more crucial than Outer Circumstance

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“Eh,” Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was

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I promise to do all I can to kick the shit out of option B

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Sheryl Sandberg’s life-affirming tribute to late husband Dave Goldberg: ‘I want to choose life’

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 Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg isi photographed at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Sheryl Sandberg knows she will never stop grieving for the loss of her husband Dave Goldberg, but one month after his sudden passing, she wants to choose life.”I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning,” Sandberg wrote in a heartbreaking and remarkable Facebook post on Wednesday.

This marks her most extensive and candid public comments since Goldberg, the beloved chief executive of SurveyMonkey, died suddenly from a severe head trauma while on vacation last month.

“These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well,” she continued. “But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.”

http://mashable.com/2015/06/03/sheryl-sandberg-tribute/

Book Recommendation: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies-ebook/dp/B00D97HPQI/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1433310503
A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies with hardware, software, and networks at their core will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.

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Breaking with the Past

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break freeOne of the most important leadership roles during times of change is that of putting into words what it is time to leave behind. Continue reading →

Gandhi Sugar Story

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There is a story of a woman in India who was upset that her son was eating too much sugar. No matter how much she chided him, he continued to satisfy his sweet tooth. Totally frustrated, she decided to take her son to see his great hero Mahatma Gandhi. Continue reading →