I’m trying desperately to tame the voices in my head, or at least recognize them for what they are: a constant, annoying distraction.
To find out more about Eckhart Tolle, I highly recommend listening to Oprah’s interviews with him from her XM radio show, which are available on iTunes as free downloads (collect all three, in audio or video form). Get them here.
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Should I use grape or fruit-punch flavored kool aid? Landmark, Est, Scientology or maybe Sanford Meisner’s in the Now ohhhh AA
Fear not for I am of the past which doesn’t exist of course there is no now now either because when you read this it will be the past, but if you read it in the future that won’t exist either.
Ahh self centered idolatry.
Holy cow, do you think they actually got me? Have I already been so brainwashed that I don’t see that I’m finally a member of a cult? I always hope I’d start a cult, but to get sucked in by one, especially one lead by Oprah, is just downright embarrassing…
Dude, I need to step away from the brain cycles every once and a while and just live. If I have to get there thru The Queen of All Media, then so be it.
Either way, I’ll always be, to some extent, a cynical dill weed.
Oh, Please stay a dill weed so we all can enjoy the NOW of dill weedyness and help us move toward the inner harmony of our own dill weedyness
I became frightened for a friend and possible Lord of Dill weeds.
I apologize
I’m no expert on this…and have only very slightly read some things on Buddhism…and get readily confused by the “3 seals”, “5 aggregates” and”4 noble truths”, etc., but I seem to recall some aspect referring to letting go of the past and future, and focusing on the here and now. So, it seems to me Mr. Tolle was “adopting” some very ancient concepts — a case of the everything old is new again.
In view of your new found search for Nirvana and Hudson’s current obsession w/ all things Star Wars, I highly recommend the book “The Dharma of Star Wars” by Matthew Bortolin. It’s no Oprah reco, so you run a good chance of it actually having substance and not turning out to be lie (Oprah’s had some trouble, as I’m sure you are aware, with the integrity of some of her previously recommended authors). Kase enjoyed the book very much, as did I. Tho’, it seems I need to re-read it as a refresher.
What you said about your kids carried a lot of resonance with me. I think i’ll look out this author.
Thanks for the tip
wayne
I’m downloading them now thanks
I like that are a cynical old dill weed. I like that you are earnestly in search of something outside of everything there is to be cynical about. Isn’t that the point of cynicism – keeping the crap at bay while hoping for something higher?