“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
— Anthony Robbins
Let’s consider some questions that are truly empowering:
– Is there a message for me in this experience?
– What’s the gift in this situation?
– What can I learn from this?
– What’s the most loving thing I could do now?
– What’s the most important thing for me to focus on now?
– What would I do if I knew I could not fail?
– What would I do if there were nothing to fear?
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon (The Daily Guru, August 4, 2006)
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JAMBO contributed ¥30,000 to Ashinaga (Support for Tohoku Orphans) (www.ashinaga.org/en/). Many children and adolescents were hit hard by the recent earthquake and tsunami. Ashinaga provides them with the care that they need.
These funds come from you, the participants of JAMBO, Thank you very much.
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March 1 event is rained out. Instead, we meet at Shinjuku Gyoen’s Okido gate at 3:00 (park&eats).
You can choose the easier short course or longer course.
We will meet at the ticket gate of Ogose at 10:53AM. From Ikebukuro, take the Tobu Tojo Line’s Express Train at 9:40 and change at Sakado (arriving here at 10:24 to the Tobu Ogose Line. Take the 10:33AM Tobu Ogose Line train to the end (Ogose Station). It arrives at Ogose at 10:51AM. From here, we hike by a nice temple, down to Ogose Plum Tree Park, which should be in bloom and has 1,000 trees, with some being 600 years old, and then up a small mountain. The short course goes back to Ogose Station and the long one goes to Higashi Moro Station.
The short hike (David) itself is about 3.5 hours and the long hike (Leszek) is about 5 hours. Should be a lot of fun! The train fare is 720 Yen one-way.
If you’d like to go from Ikebukuro, get on the front of the 9:40 train at Ikebukuro Station. David will get on that car at Wakoshi Station at 9:53.
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Reservations needed
Time/Place: 6:30-9:00pm at Ebisu 7 (Map is at http://www.kokusaika.org/english/ebisu.html)
For JAMBO members, the cost is 3,500 yen for men and 3,000 for women w/reservation (500 yen discount for foreigners; plus 500 yen if you go directly without making a reservation). Large international party with buffet dinner (AUSSIE DAY Celebration), including spare ribs, fruit, cheese platters, salads, veggies, cake and ice cream. Open drink bar.
Reservations can be made with David at jambodave@green.email.ne.jp or phone (03-6599-8112) by February 27.
Half of your admission fee will be donated to Friends of the Earth Japan, so you can have an enjoyable evening and help a good cause at the same time.
If you’d like to go with David, please meet at the Hibiya Line’s Ebisu Station (Exit # 1) at 6:20PM on the 28th.
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JAMBO contributed $500 (¥60,230) to Tikondane (ZAMBIA) . This is a place educating nurses and teaching literacy. There are also various income generating activities such as the garden and skill training initiatives, as well as important community development work. Tikondane is a gem for the tourist interested in finding the real Africa.
These funds come from you, the participants of JAMBO, Thank you very much.
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1000円, Canceled in case of rain, intermediate
Please bring your food and drink.
Please wear trekking shoes (or exercise shoes). Spikes, if you have. Bring non-slip gloves to grab on to branches and ropes.
Course: Hatsukari Station – Mt. Takagawa – Tenjin Pass – Batou Goddess of Mercy – Ootsuki Station
From the top of the mountain, we have a 360 degree panoramic view, including beautiful Mt. Fuji.
Meeting Place and Time: On the front car of the Keio Line train at Shinjuku at 8:49 or at Hatsukari ticket gate at 10:50
We leave Shinjuku on the 8:49 Keio Line train, arriving at Takao at 9:39. We’ll change trains there to the Chuo Line, getting on the 9:48 train and arriving at Hatsukari Station at 10:48AM. (One way is ¥1,090)
More information about the course (in Japanese):
yamazuki.fc2web.com/takagawa.html
www.geocities.jp/hmrmyamada/yamaaruki/takagawayama.html
http://www.yamareco.com/modules/yamareco/detail-587266.html
From Hatsukari Station (leaving around 11:00AM), it’s about 5 hours of walking (plus rest time and lunch time).
Leader: Leszek (070-6572-2537)
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JAMBO contributed $US1000 (about ¥120,000) to Global Greengrants Fund – a group that provides grants for local environmental work in Africa, Asia and other poor areas (http://www.greengrants.org/). This donation is matched, so it becomes $2000.
These funds come from you, the participants of JAMBO, Thank you very much.
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From Uenohara we take the bus to Arai. Then we climb over the top of No-Dake (542m) to the top of Yae-Yama. After lunch, to bus stop Ohori, then bus to Uenohara and with JR-Chuo line to Shinjuku.
Meeting place: 10:05 at Uenohara station
Leader: Guy Exley 08048182089
Train:
- DEP 08.54 Depart JR-Shinjuku (with Chūō-Line)
- ARR 09.38 Takao (change to train going towards Matsumoto)
- DEP 09.48 Takao
- ARR 10.05 Uenohara
- DEP 10.25 Uenohara (with the bus)
- ARR 10.37 Bus stop Arai – (on foot 140 Min.) – Nō-Dake – (on foot 20 Min.) – Yae-Yama – (on foot 20 Min.) – Yae-Yama top – (on foot about 1 hour) – Bus stop Ohori – (with the bus) – Stn. Uenohara – (JR-Chuo-Line) – Shinjuku
Walking time is about 4 hours.
Total train cost: ¥2,460
- Shinjuku → Uenohara ¥970
- Uenohara → Arai ¥260
- Ohori → Uenohara ¥260
- Uenohara → Shinjuku ¥970
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All of us wish to change something in our lives – our job, our friends, our family, our living situation. And yet, what is the fundamental change we truly seek? Could it be some kind of unshakeable happiness and fulfillment? If so, this cannot be attained by external changes, because even if we can change these outer aspects of our lives, the feeling of dissatisfaction eventually returns.
There are also changes which suddenly force themselves on us unwillingly – an accident, getting divorced, losing a job. How do we deal with those? For one person, this may be devastating, moving her to a life of despair. To another, this is an opportunity to “learn from the loss” and become more appreciative of what she still has or commit herself to more fulfillment in other parts of her life.
In other words, the most fundamental change never comes from outside of ourselves, but rather from inside. When a spirit of contentment, gratitude, and love is cultivated on a regular basis, you can find happiness even in troubling times. Cultivating such a spirit is the best, and kindest, thing you can ever do for yourself and for others.
LIVE THE CHANGE!!!
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