“Why don’t you a blog post on meditation?” asked a man I recently met. “What is every executive in a company were required to?” he continued. What would the world look like? How much petty bullshit and time wasting would vaporize….” Clearly the man had pleasurable meditation experiences. He didn’t know that I [...]
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Who You Meet, Who You Love, and Who Sticks Around
Your timing determines who you will meet in your life Your heart determines who you will love in your life Your behavior determines who will stay in your life Your timing determines who you will meet in your life I used to scorn the concept of timing. I was a romantic believing [...]
Be Naked: A Weekend in Esalen
Rather than go to multiple Memorial Day barbecues, I decided to head back down to Big Sur for the long weekend. No, this time I wasn’t going to a monastery to think impure thoughts. Rather I was going to Esalen to not think and be impure. Esalen is a beautiful new-agey retreat built into the cliffs [...]
Not Thinking About Sex in a Monastery
Hedonism and asceticism have always been fundamental parts of American culture. Never able to completely stay true to one path, we take turns diving into each, using one to wash us from the pleasurable guilt of the other. In pursuit of a little of each for writing inspiration, I drove down Big Sur, California. Big [...]