The Kiwi Clown Mime at the End of the World
Download MP3Do normal stuff or get enlightened? / Avoid problems you don't have / Away from climate anxiety
1. Listener mail - Eben crushes it with a killer question that really revs us up. Do the 10,000 things, or seek enlightenment? Neither. Both. Thank you so much Eben. Don't let us confuse you about enlightenment, you've got this. Keep doing what you're doing. We are here for this practical, get-on-with-it Mid-West vibe.
Guided meditation by Australian Buddhist nuns.
Tao te Ching - get into it, it's a great read, lots of good advice, practical, relaxing, and sometimes funny as well. A typical youtube version of Tao te Ching
Henry Shukman - "Take them as you will... pointers to help us in our lives, and guide us towards greater kindness and less harm, more love, and lives that are more open to witnessing this world, and calling out it's injustices, to seeing them. And to be able to do that without reactivity. Offering calm to the world, in it's turmoil."
Chop wood, carry water. Wash dishes, fold laundry
“Before Enlightenment…You chop wood and carry water, but secretly wish to get out of it all. You bear with these activities through habit and out of hopelessness, but you really wish you could do something else. In a way, you are a victim, a slave — the wood chops you and the water carries you, and there is no way to escape…After Enlightenment, you are in harmony with the universe…so you see that there is nothing more important than chopping wood and carrying water. All activities are equalized, there is no preference, no discrimination. Because there is no ‘you’, no ego, no personality, no being, no separate individuality — there is no conflict. No need to escape…because you have mastered your mind, you are not chopped by the wood and carried by the water anymore. You can flip your perspective at will. It is your choice to chop wood and carry water, and you live it in complete suchness and spontaneity.”
2. Introducing a regular segment: "Note to Self." Today's note: Is that rock heavy? Ajahn Chah says "Only if you pick it up." jackkornfield.com/bio/
3. Climate anxiety- don't beat yourself up to no good purpose? Stop telling your kids they'll die from climate change
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Do normal stuff or get enlightened? / Avoid problems you don't have / Away from climate anxiety
1. Listener mail - Eben crushes it with a killer question that really revs us up. Do the 10,000 things, or seek enlightenment? Neither. Both. Thank you so much Eben. Don't let us confuse you about enlightenment, you've got this. Keep doing what you're doing. We are here for this practical, get-on-with-it Mid-West vibe.
Guided meditation by Australian Buddhist nuns.
Tao te Ching - get into it, it's a great read, lots of good advice, practical, relaxing, and sometimes funny as well. A typical youtube version of Tao te Ching
Henry Shukman - "Take them as you will... pointers to help us in our lives, and guide us towards greater kindness and less harm, more love, and lives that are more open to witnessing this world, and calling out it's injustices, to seeing them. And to be able to do that without reactivity. Offering calm to the world, in it's turmoil."
“Before Enlightenment…You chop wood and carry water, but secretly wish to get out of it all. You bear with these activities through habit and out of hopelessness, but you really wish you could do something else. In a way, you are a victim, a slave — the wood chops you and the water carries you, and there is no way to escape…After Enlightenment, you are in harmony with the universe…so you see that there is nothing more important than chopping wood and carrying water. All activities are equalized, there is no preference, no discrimination. Because there is no ‘you’, no ego, no personality, no being, no separate individuality — there is no conflict. No need to escape…because you have mastered your mind, you are not chopped by the wood and carried by the water anymore. You can flip your perspective at will. It is your choice to chop wood and carry water, and you live it in complete suchness and spontaneity.”
2. Introducing a regular segment: "Note to Self." Today's note: Is that rock heavy? Ajahn Chah says "Only if you pick it up." jackkornfield.com/bio/
3. Climate anxiety- don't beat yourself up to no good purpose? Stop telling your kids they'll die from climate change
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