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Amsterdam is famous for one thing (besides canals, and cannabis cafés, and prostitutes): the tattered, ancient, much-misunderstood word liberalism. Amsterdam is, by most accounts, the most liberal place on earth.
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Multiculturalism proved to be a failure. It was leading not to a mixed society but to a multiplicity of ghettoized communities living next to but cut off from one another: the very opposite of a “society.”
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“We were against authority and ownership. Buying real estate was for patsers.” (The word doesn’t translate well, but “establishment assholes” gets close.)
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News of the satiric order caught on and spread throughout the provinces. The rebels adopted a mock chivalric fashion: gray cloak (gray was the color associated with the poor), a begging bowl attached to the belt, and, as a topper, a flourishing “Turkish” moustache. Paintings, prints, and medals of handsomely dressed-down Beggars circulated. The look became a fad among young people.
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The parallels are indeed striking. In both the Dutch and the American causes, people had to struggle to expand their identities from the local (Virginians and Hollanders to Americans and Netherlander). Both revolts had economic injustice at their heart. In each there was a foreign monarch whose behavior allowed for him to be easily demonized. And both had a founding father. The reasons for the similarities are fairly clear. Both countries came into being as a result of the unfolding of the concept of individual liberty. The differences between the two situations are partly explained by the two centuries separating them, in which, so to speak, society was able to integrate the longing for liberty.
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Technically, it was the day that the city became Calvinist, but it might be more pertinent to say it was the day it became liberal. Ahead was staggering growth, a stock market, a harbor bristling with masts, streets filling with immigrants from all points of the compass. As the Dutch writer Geert Mak has it, “the 26th of May in the year 1578 is the exact moment when the real Amsterdam was born.” It is with striking but perhaps typical Dutch understatement that Amsterdammers to this day refer to the event, into which so much calamitous history had gone, as the Alteration.
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The genius of the VOC was in threading itself through this highly evolved network. By the end of the golden age a century later, the Dutch were selling spices not only to Europe but to China, India, and even to the Spice Islanders.
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What you have before you is a chance to engage in one of the most rewarding aspects of travel, which is also one of the most enjoyable things about reading (and writing) narrative history: the possibility of lifting the veil of the present and systematically willing a particular iteration of the past to reconstitute itself.
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That they are still holding up so much of the city is the result of a bit of seventeenth-century genius. The engineers knew that the logs would not rot once they were below the waterline. The problem was the tops had to rest in the air, where masonry fixed them to the bricks, in order for the mortar to harden. The solution was to dig ditches where the piles would be driven to a point below the waterline and then temporarily pump water out of them. Once the mortar had dried, the water could be let back in the ditch,
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That they are still holding up so much of the city is the result of a bit of seventeenth-century genius. The engineers knew that the logs would not rot once they were below the waterline. The problem was the tops had to rest in the air, where masonry fixed them to the bricks, in order for the mortar to harden. The solution was to dig ditches where the piles would be driven to a point below the waterline and then temporarily pump water out of them. Once the mortar had dried, the water could be let back in the ditch, and the pile, safely under water, remained preserved from the ravaging effects of oxygen.
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Because pain is just a thought, your brain can ignore it, and you can learn to suppress it.
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What keeps us alive and propels us forward are our actions, not our fears. Fear, if anything, paralyzes us. It blurs our judgment and blocks us from making the best possible decisions.
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the amygdala uses approximately two-thirds of its neurons to detect negative experiences, and once the brain starts looking for bad news, it stores it into the long-term memory immediately, while positive experiences have to be held in our awareness for more than twelve seconds in order for the transfer from short-term to long-term memory to occur.
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The story your brain tells you is always incomplete.
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Predicting something will happen often lays the path to make it happen.
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We view memories as archives of past eventsof what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened. And because what we think is always distorted by our brain’s blind spots, it’s often not true.
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you mixed a gallon of pure water with one tiny drop of ink, the resulting liquid, diluted though it may be, would no longer be pure. Memories are like that
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In one of Plato’s dialogues, Phaedrus describes reason as a charioteer who holds the raging emotions of his horses in place.
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Daniel Kahneman calls this “the availability heuristic”:
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What’s more than the truth is less than true.
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Shawn Achor, a professor of positive psychology at Harvard, says, “What we’re finding is that it’s not necessarily the reality that shapes us but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. If I know everything about your external world, I can only predict 10 percent of your long-term happiness. Ninety percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world but by the way your brain processes the world.”13
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Keep asking the question “Is it true?” as many times as you need until you realize how ridiculous the statements our brain offers us really are.
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Most of the time the only thing wrong with our lives is the way we think about them
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Like a master archer, you need to not only see your target but, more important, see nothing else but your target. Your target is the truth.
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The truthalwaysis just a single dot on a long line of infinite possibilities, of which every other point is an illusion.
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Golden Rule for Happiness: Choose to believe in the side that makes you happy. That side is more likely closer to the truth.
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The study collected more than 650,000 reports and presented a profound discovery: regardless of what people were doing at any given time, they were noticeably happier when they were fully present. It didn’t even matter what they were thinking about. It didn’t matter if it was a pleasant, a neutral, or an unpleasant thought; when they were focused outside the present, people were less happy. Period.1
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Without the intent to be aware, there’s only reception without awarenessa state all too familiar in our modern world.
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The Taoist tradition captures this in a concept called wu wei, which translates as “nondoing.”
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Many meditation techniques identify four corners as the extent of our “awareness space.”
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“positive events journal.”
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Dedicate only ten minutes in the morning and ten in the evening for social networks.
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Whenever you feel your mind racing or the day rushing by, just stop. Tell yourself that you’re not going back to the hubbub of life until you observe ten things around you, one for each one of your fingers. There’s a tree, a chubby cat, there’s some fresh air, a pain in my left shoulder, and the noise of the water cooler behind me. Count to ten, then take a deep breath and jump back into the day.
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the physical self is an illusion; life is not the body that is subject to the limitations of space-time.
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His life always existed, and so has mine, outside the boundaries of space-time. In my definition, death is the end of our physical form, but it is not the opposite of life. Death is the opposite of birth. Birth and death are the portals through which we come in and go out of this physical form, but life is independent of all that’s physical. Life observes the physical. It resides outside of it, where there is no before or after. In this lies the source of the peace I’ve experienced since Ali’s departure. I know we will meet again.
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Death anchors us in the truth. It’s the signpost that takes away all illusions.
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It’s as true in engineering as it is in business as it is in life: the most crucial step on the path to finding an answer depends on the question itself. If we don’t know what we’re solving for, then whatever answer we may find will be irrelevant. So let’s accurately define the problem statement.
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I actually believe the designer isn’t running the show at all! The equations he created do.
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Our universe is far too complex to predict. Surrendering oneself to a design that is beyond our ability to grasp is freeing. That freedom is joy. Try to shape your destiny and aspire to change the world for the better. Know, however, that your input into the equations of the grand design is limited. Arm yourself with committed acceptance in the instances when a billion other parameters tilt the result away from your expectation. Surrender and marvel at the brilliance of the design and you will have the ride of your life.
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Without thinking, all things are exactly as they are. The truth is just like this.
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“If you stay at 180°, you become attached to emptiness. If you stay at 270°, you become attached to freedom. “At 360°, all things are just as they are; the truth is just like this. ‘Like this’ means that there is no attachment to anything. This point is exactly the same as the zero point: we arrive where we began, where we have always been. The difference is that 0° is attachment thinking, while 360° is no-attachment thinking.
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Red light means Stop; green light means Go. It is intuitive action. Intuitive action means acting without any desire or attachment. My mind is like a clear mirror, reflecting everything just as it is. Red comes, and the mirror becomes red; yellow comes, and the mirror becomes yellow. This is how a Bodhisattva lives. I have no desires for myself. My actions are for all people.
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Long ago in China, the Sixth Patriarch once passed two monks who were arguing about a flag blowing in the wind. One monk said, “It is the flag that is moving.” The second monk said, “It is the wind that is moving.” The Sixth Patriarch said, “You are both wrong. It is not the flag, it is not the wind: it is your mind that is moving.” In the same way, with the leaves, wind, anger, etc., when your mind is moving, then actions appear. But when your mind is not moving, the truth is just like this. The falling of the leaves is the truth. The sweeping is the truth. The wind's blowing them away is the truth. The people's anger also is the truth. If your mind is moving, you can't understand the truth. You must first understand that form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Next, no form, no emptiness. Then you will understand that form is form, emptiness is emptiness. Then all these actions are the truth. And then you will find your true home. If
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Life is death; death is life. They understand very clearly that fighting and differences among people are unnecessary, are just the result of wrong thinking. They no longer desire to be rich or successful. Rich or poor, success or failureit is all the same. It comes to the same thing when you are dead.” The first student said, “You've just convinced me to take special medicine twice a day!” Soen-sa said, “Taking it once or twice can be very helpful. But taking it more often is dangerous. It is very easy to become attached to special medicine. You are already a Zen student. So you already understand that life is empty; you understand what the true way is. When your body is sick, it is sometimes necessary to take a strong drug. But when you are healthy, you don't take drugs. So this special medicine cures some sickness, but it creates other sicknesses. After you take it, you have many attachments. You don't feel like working. You don't want to make money. You only want to relax or work in the garden or listen to music or enjoy art.” “Not make money? Heaven forbid!” “This is an attachment to natural-style or hippie-style living. It is no good for a Zen student. Many people take special medicine and understand themselves. But their understanding is only thinking. It is not attainment. True attainment of emptiness means that all thinking has been cut off. There are neither likes nor dislikes. Natural-style living is good. Plastic-style living is good. There are no attachments to anything.” The third student said, “Soen-sa-nim, many different people practice Zen. I practice Zen; businessmen and lawyers practice Zen. I have an attachment to natural-style; they have an attachment to big-business-style. You don't say to them that they must give up business and only practice Zen, and you don't say to me that I must give up natural-style and only practice Zen. It's just different karma, isn't it?” Soen-sa said, “Your life is natural-style; that's good. Businessman-style living is also good. What is important is why you are living this way. If you desire money for yourself or if you desire natural-style for yourselfthis is no good. If you cut off your desires, then business is not business. It is Bodhisattva business. Natural-style is not natural-style. It is Bodhisattva action. So you can use business or natural-style living to teach all people the true way.” “You can teach natural-style living?” “Yes, teaching natural-style is very good, as long as you are not attached to it. Natural-style is very high-class Bodhisattva action.” “Why?” “True hippies have no hindrance. If I have no money, that's okay. If I don't have a house or a bed, that's okay. I can sleep anywhere, I can eat any food. My whole life is freedom. I am free to do anything. Having no hindrance means not being attached to anything. So this hippie-mind is very good; it is a very high-class mind. But many young people are attached to hippie-style or natural-style living. This is no good. If you are attached, then hippie-style becomes a hindrance. You must cut off all thinking and all desires for yourself. Then you will soon attain enlightenment. The hippie-mind is only one hair's-breadth away from enlightenment. If a hippie could cut off his attachment to being a hippie, he would soon discover, ‘Oh, this is enlightenment!’ One of my first students in America had very long blond hair, which he wore in a pony-tail. One day I said to him, ‘I think it would be good if you cut your hair.’ He said, ‘No no, I like my hair the way it is.’ I said, ‘If you are attached to your hair, you cannot attain enlightenment.’ ‘Is this true?’ ‘Yah, enlightenment is complete freedom. If you are attached to your hair, then your hair is a hindrance. 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