{"id":33942,"date":"2019-07-17T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33942"},"modified":"2019-07-14T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:07:43","slug":"advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #14:  Rules to Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this issue of Book Freak: simple advice for living.<\/p>\n<p>Three rules to live by<br \/>\n\u201cThree rules [Lou Reed] and I came up with \u2013 rules to live by. The first one is don\u2019t be afraid of anyone. Imagine living your life so that you are afraid of no one. Second is get a really good bullshit detector and learn how to use it.\u2028 And third is be really, really tender.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Laurie Anderson, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2lm87LK\">Art Is the Highest Form of Hope &#038; Other Quotes by Artists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making the best of the bad bargain<br \/>\n\u201cLet us make the best of that bad bargain of being born in this vile planet, where we may find, however (God be thanked), much to laugh at, though little to approve.<br \/>\n\u2015 Mary Wortley Montagu: \u201cLetter to James Steuart, Jan 13, 1761,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2llfyCW\">A New Dictionary of Quotations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do nothing, expect nothing<br \/>\n\u201cShikantaza is the Japanese translation of a Chinese colloquialism for zazen, which in English means \u2018single-minded sitting.\u2019 In shinkantaza, you forget even that you are sitting, and your mind enters a state of nothingness. You are not seeking enlightenment, you are not strengthening your will, you are not doing this for good health \u2014 you aren\u2019t actively thinking of anything. In Soto Zen, you simply sit, without striving.<br \/>\n\u2015 Sunmyo Masuno, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2lgAs5Z\">The Art of Simple Living<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple advice for living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33944,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions\/33944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}