How many books read, retreats attended, sages heard, and personal experiences had before we acquire some fundamental, perennially-affirmed Life Practices as permanent acquisitions? What have we been waiting for? Perhaps we have been waiting for the non-judgmental, hilarious recognition that we don’t know what the reason is that we have been waiting so long. I [...]
Stronger, Faster, Smarter Exercise does more than build muscles and help prevent heart disease. New science shows that it also boosts brainpower—and may offer hope in the battle against Alzheimer’s. by Mary Carmichael Newsweek Magazine, http://www.newsweek.com/2007/03/25/stronger-faster-smarter.html, March 26, 2007 The stereotype of the “dumb jock” has never sounded right to Charles Hillman. A jock himself, [...]
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation. You yourself try it, and compare your test results with others who have also performed the experiment. Out of [...]
Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman is in my experience one of the finest expressions in the kosmos, and I have been reading Whitman – and enjoying the freedom and fullness of his mysticism – since I was on the road during a sabbatical from college at the age of 20. Whitman is [...]
Hi Juice Feasting Friends, What does the film Never Cry Wolf have to do with Juice Feasting? The Hero’s Journey! I addressed the connection at the Raw Food World Gathering here in Vilcabamba, Ecuador this week in my two-hour presentation on Juice Feasting: A Modern Hero’s Journey. The film is based on Canadian writer and [...]
There is A Cure for Diabetes Type-2. Do you want proof? Most of us do. How about a FILM and a BOOK that prove we can heal diabetes? You can find the goods in the powerful documentary film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.” If you haven’t yet seen this film there’s something really [...]
David Rainoshek: I love this video (full transcript below). Carlin makes the excellent point that “saving the planet” is not the issue – saving ourselves is. The planet is fine, and will be fine. It is the biosphere as suitable for maintaining human life that is in question. And even that will come to an end.
Here is the mystical perspective: There is no Earth, and no one to save it. From that place of Big Mind, Ein Sof, Suchness, the All – we recognize that the only thing that lasts is the Ground of Being: Spirit itself. All that is will decay, and it is okay. Before you allow Big Heart and your mind to come back in, just rest in the knowing that impermanence is completely okay. It is all lila – the sport and play of Spirit with Spirit. Big Mind. Everything is Spirit. No beings to save, no environment to save, no one to save them.
George Carlin, in his inimitable comic style, illustrates the point that the western overuse of antiseptics and washing can actually diminish our body’s natural ability to protect itself from opportunists. Says Carlin, “We swam in raw sewage – to cool off. We were tempered in raw shit.” One of Katrina and my favorite selections from George Carlin.
This week on The Stuart Davis Show Episode 6: Zen and the Zen of Zen.
It’s a Special Episode, all about Buddhism. What is Zen? What is not Zen? The Stu Clones debate the essence of the ineffable. Is Zen madness? Sanity? Is it simply the direct apprehension of Reality as-it-is, or does it involve a practice, and the development of one’s World View. Is there a difference between Horizontal and Vertical Englightenment? What the hell does that even mean? Find out this week, FREE on You Tube, Episode Six is full of Nude Buddhas and Inscrutable Grooves, with all the hilarity and heresy you’ve come to expect from the Stuart Davis Show, plus the news from Sex, God, and Rock ‘n Roll
Reports Lt. Taeko McFadden, U.S. Navy: “The classes here average about 20 each time. It is amazing how word spreads and how much people like it. Military personnel don’t realize how much they need yoga until they try it.” David Rainoshek: Let’s encourage all military personnel – right up to the very top – to [...]
Making the enso – the Zen circle that conveys everything, the whole world, complete, the ultimate Zen symbol of emptiness – is kind of a practice. Ensos are traditionally done in sumi ink, black on white. When I first saw one of Kaz Tanahashi’s color ensos, a breakthrough in the form, I put it on [...]
Lou Charloff was born in Romania and moved to New York (specifically, the Bronx) when he was two years old. He speaks five languages and served as an interpreter for the military government of occupied Germany after World War II. Four years ago, he decided to try his hand at stand-up comedy in Los Angeles, making him, simultaneously, one of the oldest and one of the newest comics in the business.
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Here Ken Wilber discusses the noble (though occasionally misplaced) drive to help raise the consciousness of the world. This sort of spiritual urgency can be very difficult to work through—on the one hand, considering the fairly dismal state of this world, urgency seems the only appropriate response. On the other hand, many of our ambitions to transform the world might actually be coming from a somewhat less-than-bodhisattvic place within us, a sort of “spiritual ego” that thrives upon creating opportunities to display just how enlightened it is. Assuming the drive is authentic and selfless, how can we effectively bring just a little more light into the world, without spinning our psycho-spiritual wheels in the muck of ignorance, casting our most precious pearls of wisdom before the swine of self-deception?
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. The film explores the bottled water industrys [...]
