Joe Rogan - The Problem with Conventional Education

I'm a big fan of Joe Rogan, his stand-up comedy, and general outlook on life. If you've never seen his comedy, take a look on YouTube.

Zen Meditation Posters

Find many more great, humorous Zen/Enlightenment comics here: MoJo1000.com

The Wave Who Wanted to be the Ocean

The big wave who wanted to be as vast as the ocean - eventually gave up trying to get bigger and bigger - it dropped down, forgot itself and became.

Only an ego searches for enlightenment as an ego is the only thing that is not enlightened. The only fake in reality is this idea of self.

When ego finds what it selfishly seeks it finds the absence of ego. Realizing itself as nothing but an idea, it renders itself Extinguished.

What reality finds when it is rid of ego is that ..

You can not become what you already are.

This nugget delivered from TaoWow

It All Goes Back in the Box

A monopoly metaphor asking us to re-examine what's important in life.

Terrence McKenna - Nobody is Smarter Than You

A great bit of wisdom from a wise man

ONE - The Movie

ONE The Movie weaves the novice filmmaker's remarkable adventures with the answers to life's ultimate questions in a journey that just might transform your way of seeing the world as One.

Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

I just finished reading this for the second time. It's such a great book, a must-read for the spiritually-minded. Here are some of my favorite passages:

“This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated ‘egos’ inside bags of skin.” -Alan Watts, “The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are,” Vintage Books (8)

“An ardent Jehovah’s Witness once tried to convince me that if there were a God of love, he would certainly provide mankind with a reliable and infallible textbook for the guidance of conduct. I replied that no considerate God would destroy the human mind by making it so rigid and unadaptable as to depend upon on book, the Bible, for all the answers. For the use of words and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.” (11)

“The cat has already been let out of the bag. The inside information is that yourself as ‘just little me’ who ‘came into this world’ and lives temporarily in a bag of skin is a hoax and a fake. The fact is that because no one thing or feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or Self, is the whole. The rest of this book will attempt to make this so clear that you will not only understand the words but feel the fact.” (53)

Terrence McKenna on Cannabis

Thanks to Andrew for the clip. Here's a short bit from a Marijuana documentary discussing the seldom mentioned benefits of cannabis.