ZEN and the Art of Gamboling
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Inspired by (and so dedicated to) FACEBOOK
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ATTACHMENT TO RESTRAINT
Is neither good nor bad ‘til thinking makes it so…
The independent choice to eat of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden
Seems, perhaps, to have been foreseen…
A Sublime Morality Play, if you will..
In quantum physics 1 +1 = 2.
In biology 1+1 often = three or more…
“The Perception and/or Perspective, of the so-called Powerful, oft times wreaks havoc”. - Robert Cecil Hanna (August 27, 2009) Good Intentions, or Not,
… Are irrelevant on an infinite plane..
Facebook Has Peeked ......... and found me wanting…
Yesterday, after years of facebook membership beginning when the social network first opened it membership to adults, I was banned from facebook forever by its computerized automated censorship program, which espouses a policy against ‘nudity’ on facebook – ostensibly to protect its ‘young’ members. I was notified that the decision is Final.
So I am considering posting here some of the short pithy statements which facebook solicits from its members on a freewill daily basis as the individual member’s ‘status’ on their personal page in response to the standing question ‘what are you thinking’…
There are many excellent reasons why facebook is the phenomenon of the Internet social network, uh networks..
Facebook is brilliant and historically important on a worldwide scale.
If banning me from membership is a necessary cog in the ‘Mainframe’ that facebook has become, I humbly accept…
It remains to be seen whether humankind will actually rise to the occasion, and evolve to a level that makes humanity a superior finite judgmental means of deciding knowledge of good and evil --over robotics/artificialintelligence/computerizeddecisionmaking/ and any other form of contrived system necessitated by humankind’s decision in the allegorical Garden of Eden to eat of the forbidden fruit…
So I am considering posting here some of the short pithy statements which facebook solicits from its members on a freewill daily basis as the individual member’s ‘status’ on their personal page in response to the standing question ‘what are you thinking’…
There are many excellent reasons why facebook is the phenomenon of the Internet social network, uh networks..
Facebook is brilliant and historically important on a worldwide scale.
If banning me from membership is a necessary cog in the ‘Mainframe’ that facebook has become, I humbly accept…
It remains to be seen whether humankind will actually rise to the occasion, and evolve to a level that makes humanity a superior finite judgmental means of deciding knowledge of good and evil --over robotics/artificialintelligence/computerizeddecisionmaking/ and any other form of contrived system necessitated by humankind’s decision in the allegorical Garden of Eden to eat of the forbidden fruit…
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
CHAPTER ONE (et seq)
Today I slipped my leash and wandered around outside my default mode!
I FOUND A WHOLE NEW WORLD! …
Assuming that everything is OK, no matter what it looks like to me at the moment,
IS TRANS FORMATIVE, in the extreme (when I choose to do it).
Now I am engaged in a great internal discussion testing whether this concept or any concept so constituted and so decisive can long endure…
I intend to test two hypotheses:
1) Perfection, for me, is a synthesis, in my mind, of ideal ‘conditions’ externally - with a set of ideal conditions created internally.
2) Perfection, like other conditions in life, once existing will tend to continue to remain in existence ...
I have been subliminally aware for some time that my mind ‘abhors a vacuum’ and so makes up stories to explain (or at least ‘hold/pause’) everything it touches… for ‘later’…
I recently realized (consciously) that this has the potential to be really misleading to my ‘train of thought’…
Sooooooooooooooo…
(just kidding – on facebook they say 'lol' - ) which is like the whiffle dust from an old time comic strip (sorry, no offense intended - I meant 'strip' as in comic strip no, wait, that doesn't sound quite right in today's uptight mindset)
let me think about this some more...
I FOUND A WHOLE NEW WORLD! …
Assuming that everything is OK, no matter what it looks like to me at the moment,
IS TRANS FORMATIVE, in the extreme (when I choose to do it).
Now I am engaged in a great internal discussion testing whether this concept or any concept so constituted and so decisive can long endure…
I intend to test two hypotheses:
1) Perfection, for me, is a synthesis, in my mind, of ideal ‘conditions’ externally - with a set of ideal conditions created internally.
2) Perfection, like other conditions in life, once existing will tend to continue to remain in existence ...
I have been subliminally aware for some time that my mind ‘abhors a vacuum’ and so makes up stories to explain (or at least ‘hold/pause’) everything it touches… for ‘later’…
I recently realized (consciously) that this has the potential to be really misleading to my ‘train of thought’…
Sooooooooooooooo…
(just kidding – on facebook they say 'lol' - ) which is like the whiffle dust from an old time comic strip (sorry, no offense intended - I meant 'strip' as in comic strip no, wait, that doesn't sound quite right in today's uptight mindset)
let me think about this some more...
ENLIGHTENMENT comes in on little cat feet
From the day I was born ‘til today (Aug 18 ’09), my thinking was guided by my ego.
That is because of a choice made by humankind a long time ago, as I understand it.
Today, for the first time, I am able to decide in an intelligent, informed mode whether I want to consider altering that freewill choice made so long ago.
I call this enlightenment.
It is now August 19, and yesterday was one of the really good days of my life…
In the last forty-eight hours I have discovered/realized that all my life I have had a default mode that assumes that something is wrong any time I do not understand…
One of the greatest revelations of my life came about ten years ago, when I suddenly realized that (as a finite being) I actually do not understand anything (on an infinite level) because it is not possible.
This allowed me to stop worrying about things I could not understand, but I was still not aware of my ongoing default mode…
That is because of a choice made by humankind a long time ago, as I understand it.
Today, for the first time, I am able to decide in an intelligent, informed mode whether I want to consider altering that freewill choice made so long ago.
I call this enlightenment.
It is now August 19, and yesterday was one of the really good days of my life…
In the last forty-eight hours I have discovered/realized that all my life I have had a default mode that assumes that something is wrong any time I do not understand…
One of the greatest revelations of my life came about ten years ago, when I suddenly realized that (as a finite being) I actually do not understand anything (on an infinite level) because it is not possible.
This allowed me to stop worrying about things I could not understand, but I was still not aware of my ongoing default mode…
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
A SHORTER VERSION OF YESTERDAY'S BIRTH DAY POST= For My Facebook Friends
PLEASE POST A COMMENT, OF ANY KIND, AFTER LOOKING, or READING, or --WHATEVER
Tuesday July 28, 2009:
I have been in the gravitational pull, and breathing atmosphere
Of the earth for seventy-two consecutive years.
I am announcing today (NO PRESS CONFERENCE PLEASE)
That I AM ‘BETTER THAN EVER’,
AS THE COWBOYS IN NEW MEXICO USED TO Say,
“I Am Raring To Go!”
Here, for no particular reason, is an anecdote from my life:
It is in the Autobiography I am writing:
…It’s about the time I had been in Cairo for an extended period,
On a business trip as an attorney,
on behalf of a Corporate Client in NYC.
I was negotiating a joint venture agreement between an all Jewish
New York City Corporation listed on the NYSE, and a group of
Arab investors in Kuwait,
to build a state of the art production facility in Egypt.
After arriving for a scheduled two-week stay in Cairo,
I learned that Arabs only do business with ‘friends’, -and it takes longer than two weeks, for them to decide if you are a friend or not…
I was booked at the world-famous Mena House Hotel across the road from the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside Cairo.
I would sometimes ride an Arabian horse into the Sahara just after sunrise, as morning recreation…
Our ‘middleman’ was an Iraqi businessman who lived in Albuquerque.
We were not able to do any business for the first two weeks,
Despite daily meetings with our Arab contacts in Cairo.
Then, once they decided they would be friends with me,
it became necessary for my client rep and I to travel to Kuwait City, which was only legally accessible then,
By invitation from a Kuwaiti citizen.
Our trip stretched into a month; my client was paying as much in gratuities to the desk clerk at the hotel as the room rate cost,
-Just to keep us in the hotel, - which was always fully booked.
There were daily scenes in the lobby involving people
Who thought they had a room booked, but were told that due to
Some mistake there was no room for them…
Then, I received word from my ex-wife in Albuquerque
That my eighty-year-old Father was in the hospital,
with a life threatening medical emergency, and I should come home immediately.
Booking a flight from Cairo to Albuquerque on short notice is never simple.
On the morning I was to take an early flight out of Cairo,
My taxi driver had to abandon the usual traffic routes in the city (which operate on the basic Arab premise of Ensha Allah,
– Which means “Whatever Allah Wills,” –
– This is also the basis for the basic Egyptian traffic rule –
– ‘First Vehicle into any space always has the right-of-way’).
–
My Taxi Driver, therefore, creatively used the relatively quiet and uncrowded Railroad tracks running to the airport, as his ‘freeway’.
As we bumped and bounced over the railroad-tie-‘highway’,
Watching for trains, it occurred to me that, Helen Keller once said, ‘Life is nothing, if not an Adventure’.
When I arrived back in Albuquerque I went straight to the hospital room, where my Father had been laying quietly for days.
I entered his room and my Mother said to the nurse in the room, “This is my son, Robert”, - to which my Father responded weakly, without opening his eyes, “He’s my son too.” Then…
The nurse, as women are wont to do, came in, on cue, with
“He still has a sense of humor.”
Which I believe is true of both of us; -but there was a difference.
I never saw my Father angry or rude at any time in his whole life.
As for me, jocularity has always been my greatest weakness...
After my Father recovered, I flew to New York City to report to the client on my Middle East trip.
Evidently the news had preceded me, because when I arrived in their Board Room, atop Rockefeller Center, --as I entered the room in my usual unacceptable casual sports jacket with an open shirt, the President of the Company stood, in his dark three piece suit, and announced to the members of the Board -“Gentlemen It is Mr. Hanna, -Please remove your neckties,” And they did, deftly, …
Without removing their vests.
When I was born, the automobile was a new invention. The railroad had just completed a track across America, and radio and newspapers were the ways we ‘got the news’.
Today I have really great facebook friends all over the world.
We have met the millennium, and it is we- (to paraphrase Pogo), -
-Archeologically speaking, - As in –“Digging The Ween’s,”- (“The US, or We” is explored from clues unearthed centuries from now --in a very funny skit performed on air years ago.)
Today I had a discussion with a lady friend about Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Woody’s (relatively speaking) new wife.
We talked about how Woody could have received the prestigious
Felipe Prince of Austria Award in view of his damaged public image --in the same year that Mia Farrow accused him of child abuse involving her adopted Asian daughter, - who is now Woody’s new wife.
THE YEAR 2009 IS A CUSP OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HUMANITY,
in my (not so) humble opinion…
Procreation at a phenomenal rate has been an essential element of evolution.
Tuesday July 28, 2009:
I have been in the gravitational pull, and breathing atmosphere
Of the earth for seventy-two consecutive years.
I am announcing today (NO PRESS CONFERENCE PLEASE)
That I AM ‘BETTER THAN EVER’,
AS THE COWBOYS IN NEW MEXICO USED TO Say,
“I Am Raring To Go!”
Here, for no particular reason, is an anecdote from my life:
It is in the Autobiography I am writing:
…It’s about the time I had been in Cairo for an extended period,
On a business trip as an attorney,
on behalf of a Corporate Client in NYC.
I was negotiating a joint venture agreement between an all Jewish
New York City Corporation listed on the NYSE, and a group of
Arab investors in Kuwait,
to build a state of the art production facility in Egypt.
After arriving for a scheduled two-week stay in Cairo,
I learned that Arabs only do business with ‘friends’, -and it takes longer than two weeks, for them to decide if you are a friend or not…
I was booked at the world-famous Mena House Hotel across the road from the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside Cairo.
I would sometimes ride an Arabian horse into the Sahara just after sunrise, as morning recreation…
Our ‘middleman’ was an Iraqi businessman who lived in Albuquerque.
We were not able to do any business for the first two weeks,
Despite daily meetings with our Arab contacts in Cairo.
Then, once they decided they would be friends with me,
it became necessary for my client rep and I to travel to Kuwait City, which was only legally accessible then,
By invitation from a Kuwaiti citizen.
Our trip stretched into a month; my client was paying as much in gratuities to the desk clerk at the hotel as the room rate cost,
-Just to keep us in the hotel, - which was always fully booked.
There were daily scenes in the lobby involving people
Who thought they had a room booked, but were told that due to
Some mistake there was no room for them…
Then, I received word from my ex-wife in Albuquerque
That my eighty-year-old Father was in the hospital,
with a life threatening medical emergency, and I should come home immediately.
Booking a flight from Cairo to Albuquerque on short notice is never simple.
On the morning I was to take an early flight out of Cairo,
My taxi driver had to abandon the usual traffic routes in the city (which operate on the basic Arab premise of Ensha Allah,
– Which means “Whatever Allah Wills,” –
– This is also the basis for the basic Egyptian traffic rule –
– ‘First Vehicle into any space always has the right-of-way’).
–
My Taxi Driver, therefore, creatively used the relatively quiet and uncrowded Railroad tracks running to the airport, as his ‘freeway’.
As we bumped and bounced over the railroad-tie-‘highway’,
Watching for trains, it occurred to me that, Helen Keller once said, ‘Life is nothing, if not an Adventure’.
When I arrived back in Albuquerque I went straight to the hospital room, where my Father had been laying quietly for days.
I entered his room and my Mother said to the nurse in the room, “This is my son, Robert”, - to which my Father responded weakly, without opening his eyes, “He’s my son too.” Then…
The nurse, as women are wont to do, came in, on cue, with
“He still has a sense of humor.”
Which I believe is true of both of us; -but there was a difference.
I never saw my Father angry or rude at any time in his whole life.
As for me, jocularity has always been my greatest weakness...
After my Father recovered, I flew to New York City to report to the client on my Middle East trip.
Evidently the news had preceded me, because when I arrived in their Board Room, atop Rockefeller Center, --as I entered the room in my usual unacceptable casual sports jacket with an open shirt, the President of the Company stood, in his dark three piece suit, and announced to the members of the Board -“Gentlemen It is Mr. Hanna, -Please remove your neckties,” And they did, deftly, …
Without removing their vests.
When I was born, the automobile was a new invention. The railroad had just completed a track across America, and radio and newspapers were the ways we ‘got the news’.
Today I have really great facebook friends all over the world.
We have met the millennium, and it is we- (to paraphrase Pogo), -
-Archeologically speaking, - As in –“Digging The Ween’s,”- (“The US, or We” is explored from clues unearthed centuries from now --in a very funny skit performed on air years ago.)
Today I had a discussion with a lady friend about Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Woody’s (relatively speaking) new wife.
We talked about how Woody could have received the prestigious
Felipe Prince of Austria Award in view of his damaged public image --in the same year that Mia Farrow accused him of child abuse involving her adopted Asian daughter, - who is now Woody’s new wife.
THE YEAR 2009 IS A CUSP OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HUMANITY,
in my (not so) humble opinion…
Procreation at a phenomenal rate has been an essential element of evolution.
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