Author: sashen
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Start watching TV, Maitreya is coming, Maitreya is coming!
Over the last few weeks, there have been full-page ads in our local paper, The Daily Camera, announcing that Maitreya, the One World Healer, the World Teacher, the Messiah, the returning Christ (sorry for any confusion, all of the previous are referring to the same dude), will soon be back on earth and, even better,…
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I’m not leaving, but I am moving… ish
Just a quick announcement: I’ve launched an additional blog at http://www.MeditationTruth.com Some of you may know that I had a 30+ year meditation practice that I gave up cold turkey one day (the story of why is at http://www.meditationtruth.com/a-modern-look-at-meditation-how-to-meditate-and-meditating-science/) and then ended up developing the Instant Advanced Meditation Course. Well, to add a bit of…
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Oh, those wacky Buddhists…
I know a number of religious fundamentalists. But, no, they’re not Christian. Not even Muslim. And, nope, not Zoroastrian, either. They’re Buddhist. And among the reasons for their holier-than-thou-ness is they think Buddhism is “smarter” than other religions. They think Buddhists are more about critical inquiry than unfounded belief, not prone to superstition or magical…
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How to be successful in anything… finally, the truth revealed!
From the “I couldn’t have said it better myself” department comes the following, thanks to Saturday Night Live. While this video is about manifesting a particular goal — picking up women — I’m sure you’ll see how to apply this to whatever you’re trying to get. For extra credit, fill in the blanks: To become…
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I think I can’t. I think I can’t. Oh… oops, I was wrong.
From the “I couldn’t have said it better” department comes this op-ed from Barbara Ehrenreich that was in the New York Times on the 24th of September. Lifted, verbatim, with great appreciation… The Power of Negative Thinking GREED — and its crafty sibling, speculation — are the designated culprits for the financial crisis. But another,…
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Who you are really… AS IF!
Life is like a bowl of cherries. NOT. I just walked outside and life was in no way like a bowl of cherries. In fact, it was so unlike a bowl of cherries I can’t even list the differences between life and a bowl of cherries. All the world’s a stage… Ummm… not really. As…
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Buddha the Internet Marketer
If the Buddha were alive today, the odds are just as good that he’d be an Internet Marketer as the leader of a new religious sect. Why? Because the guy knew how to sell. Let me talk about the Internet Marketing world before we return full-circle to the robed former Prince of the Sakya clan…
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Attractive ways to attract attraction-attracting attractiveness
It’s getting worse. When I last wrote about “attraction,” I was getting maybe 3-4 emails a week telling me how I could attract whatever it was I wanted — sex, money, sexy money. Now it’s 3-4 per DAY. Clearly, I’m attracting these emails. Otherwise why would they show up in my inbox? It must be…
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Die your potential
Okay, here’s a chance for you to earn $20. I’ll give a Jackson, 2 Hamiltons, 4 Lincolns, 20 Washingtons or one-fifth of a Franklin to the first person who can send me a biography, autobiography, or recorded or printed interview with someone who says: “I have achieved my full and complete potential. I have done…
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Shoot me. Shoot me now! Why? It’s beyond a secret.
Let me sum up the following post in one word: AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If you can’t figure out from incisive and condensed comment what I’m talking about, I’ll elaborate (but only a bit, because I’m low on oxygen from screaming at the top of my lungs for the last 5 minutes). I’ve said before that the surest…
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Water is not water (and other things Quantum Physics DOES NOT say)
Every January 1st, I join about 600 other “Polar Bears” (a.k.a. boneheads) and head to the Boulder Reservoir for our annual plunge (if you were wondering about the “a.k.a.” a moment ago, you probably understand it now). If you don’t know how this works, here’s the deal: The ice has been cut away from a…
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What science says about enlightenment
With the idea that I should be eating a bit more protein, and being someone who is primarily a vegetarian who eats sushi every now and then, I headed for the low-fat dairy aisle. Sucker that I am for personal testimonials, I remembered a friend saying he loved kefir, a yogurt-ish drink. Well, I’m no…
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You can be Tony Robbins!
How’s this for a reality show: You can be the next Tony Robbins! Now the question is: Is this a show about becoming a self-help teacher or the freakiest makeover show ever on television? Then answer is actually… wait for it… motivational speaker. And this isn’t just an idea. This was a real show called…
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Semper Ube Sub Ube
From the Latin… Translation (kinda): Always Wear UnderWear Twice today someone asked me, “But if you feel confident and visualize getting what you want, don’t you believe that you will, at least, increase the probability that you’ll get it?” The shortest answer I came up with was: No. The longer version is this story: I…
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The Three Stooges of Truth…
All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer I don’t remember when I first heard this quote, but I can’t count high enough to list the number of times I’ve heard it tossed into conversations in the year since,…