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Triple-Filter Test
“Socrates”
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?”
“Hold on a minute,” Socrates replied. “Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“Well, no,” the man said, “actually I just heard about it and…”
“All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now, let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?”
“Umm, no, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but you’re not certain if it’s true. You may still pass the test though, because there’s one filter left—the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither true, nor good, nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”
Books Read by Tupac Shakur
One Hundred Years of Solitude Written by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1984 Written by: George Orwell
Ah, This! Written by: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
All God’s Children: The Boskett Family and the American Tradition of Violence Written by: Fox Butterfield
All You Need to Know About the Music Business Written by: Donald Passman
And Still I Rise Written by: Maya Angelou
Art of War Written by: Sun Tzu
Assata: An Autobiography Written by: Assata Shakur
At the Bottom of the River Written by: Jamaica Kincaid
The Autobiography of Malcolm X As told to: Alex Haley
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Written by: A.C. Bhaktive-danta Swami Prabhupada
Black Like Me Written by: John Howard Griffin
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746 to 1980 Edited by Earlene Stetson
Blues People Written by: Amiri Baraka
Catcher in the Rye Written by: J.D. Salinger
The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences Written by: Walter B. Gibson and Litzka R. Gibson
The Confessions of Nat Turner Written by: William Styron
The Destiny of the Nations Written by: Alice A. Bailey
The Diary of Anais Nin Edited and with a Preface by: Gunther Stuhlmann
The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Written by: E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
The Grapes of Wrath Written by: John Steinbeck
Great White Lie: Slavery, Emancipation and Changing Racial Attitudes Written by: Jack Gratus
The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War Written by: William H. Harris
Here and Hereafter Written by: Ruth Montgomery
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Written by: Maya Angelou
I Shall Not Be Moved Written by: Maya Angelou
Imitation of Christ Written by: Thomas a Kempis
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens Written by: Alice Walker
Initiation Written by: Elisabeth Haich
Interesting People: Black American History Makers Written by: George L. Lee
James Baldwin: The Legacy Edited by: Quincy Troupe
Kabbalah Written by: Gersham Scholem
Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Written by: Ira Peck
Life as Carola Written by: Joan Grant
Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs Written by: Linda Goodman
Makes Me Wanna Holler Written by: Nathan McCall
The Meaning of Masonry Written by: W.L. Wilmshurst
Moby Dick Written by: Herman Melville
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Written by: Sanyika Shakur
Music of Black Americans: A History Written by: Eileen Southern
Mysticism Written by: Evelyn Underhill
Native Son Written by: Richard Wright
Nature, Man and Woman Written by: Alan W. Watts
No Man Is an Island Written by: Thomas Merton
Nostradamus: The Millennium & Beyond Written by: Peter Lorie
The Phenomenon of Man Written by: Teilhard de Chardin
Ponder on This: A Compilation From the Writings of: Alice A Bailey & the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul
The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing Written by: Mark Bricklin
The Prince Written by: Niccolo Machiavelli
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead Written by: Timothy Leary, Ph.D, Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Richard Alpert, Ph.D.
The Psychic Realm Written by: Naomi A. Hintze and J. Gaither Pratt, Ph.D.
A Raisin in the Sun Written by: Lorraine Hansberry
Roots Written by: Alex Haley
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Written by: Jonathan Kozol
Secret Splendor Written by: Charles Essert
Serving Humanity From the writings of: Alice A. Bailey
Sisterhood is Powerful: Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement Written by: Robin Morgan
The State of the World Atlas Written by: Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal
Social Essays Written by: LeRoi Jones
The Souls of Black Folk Written by:W.E. Burghardt DuBois
Teachings of the Buddha Written by: Jack Kornfield
Telepathy Written by: Alice A Bailey
The Tibetan Book of the Dead Written by: W.Y. Evans-Wentz
Thoughts and Meditations Written by: Kahlil Gibran
Tropic of Cancer Written by: Henry Miller
The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg Written by: Paul Portuges
Wisdom of Insecurity Written by: A.N. Watts
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Written by: Robert M. Pirsig
Rewiring your intelligence!
The poet Baudelaire said that “true genius is the ability to hold two
contradictory thoughts simultaneously without losing your mind.” This
is step one in the process of transcending duality. You won’t lose your
mind, but you do have to use your mind. Just as we have to exercise and
retrain our muscles after periods of non-use, so do we need to exercise
and retrain our minds, when they have atrophied into a state of habitual
duality. When new learning occurs, it literally changes the architecture
of the human brain; hence, the phrase “neurons that fire together, wire
together,” which is a well-established catch phrase in developmental
neuroscience. What we’re literally doing when we unite the opposites is
rewiring our brains, creating new neural networks, new pathways in the
brain, which will re-route us from knee-jerk reactions to heart-based
responses. But “the new intelligence, rather than being encoded, forms
only by our doing,” writes Joseph Chilton Pearce in The Biology of Transcendence.
A post from twitter, a preview of “The Hustlers Bible”…! By Gayton McKenzie
Just because you guys asked so nicely – here’s another page from The Hustler’s Bible – book available after February only.
It’s about the job, not about your colleagues
I have met dozens of people who want to resign or take a transfer – not because they hate their job but because they hate someone they’re working with. They dread coming to work because of this particular person. They spend their time at home complaining about this person. It’s not long before the whole family and all his or her friends know all about this dreaded individual.
Not only is this person giving them shit at work but they have given this person control over their time away from work. They thus fall neatly into the trap this colleague has laid for them. By wanting to resign, they have given the bully exactly what he or she wanted all along. Of course office bullies want you to resign. They’d love nothing more. If you are being treated like shit it’s normally because someone feels deeply threatened by your presence – whether they realise it consciously or not.
They just don’t want you there. They’ll do their best to make you feel useless, even if they barely do any work themselves. They’ll make up endless stories about you behind your back, they’ll blame their own failings on you when you’re not around and do their best to paint you every shade of black. If you do have a corporate bully like that in your workplace (and, unfortunately, most people do) just remember the following story.
When I started at Chubb a lot of people were not happy. They got increasingly less happy the longer I stayed, and the better I performed.
No one was angrier than one guy in particular, Andre. He not only hated black people but he despised the fact that I had previously committed crimes against white people. He made his feelings known to me in my presence whenever he could.
I simply didn’t have the luxury of paying him any heed. At that stage, there wasn’t anywhere else I could hope to go for another job, and I had just been given a raise. I could now feed and clothe my family. I could do some of the stuff I used to pray about and used to talk about endlessly – but before this job at Chubb those things were all just dreams. Had I chosen to resign over Andre and the many others like him, I’m sure they would have had a little celebration to dance on my bones. Everyone brings joy to someone in some way, right? Some when they arrive, some when they depart.
But if I’d played into that game, it wouldn’t have just meant me leaving – I would have been abandoning all further prospects of career and personal growth.
I will never be able to give any person so much power over me and my achievements. I will only ever leave if the choice to do so benefits me.
If I join your company and you don’t like me, you will have to kill me to get rid of me – unless you can find a better job for me somewhere else.
When I was hired, I was promised a job, nothing more. I was certainly not guaranteed great treatment from fellow workers. A job, like everything in life, comes with arseholes. Unfortunately, some of them just happen to be sitting right next to you every day at your desk or, god forbid, are your boss.
But that’s just something we all have to live with. A hustler does not concern himself with being everyone’s friend. A hustler knows you can please some of the people some of the time, but you sure as hell won’t please all the people all the time. And an arsehole can never be pleased, unless someone falls in an open manhole and dies. Then he’ll spend the rest of the day chuckling about it and laughing uproariously with all his arsehole friends about how you got swept away in the drain and out to sea.
Console yourself with the thought that the arseholes are probably even less happy to see you every day than you are them. And the friendlier you are to them, in turn, the more you are actually turning the knife in their guts. So kill them every day with the sweetest of smiles that says: “I really could not give a fuck what your opinion might be.”
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