Over-Consumption and the Bloating of America
My husband and I just took a road trip from here is the San Francisco Bay area up through Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and camped on the way home down the coast. What was remarkable was the amount of obesity we encountered. Some of these encounters were more memorable [...]
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Money and Obesity
The Rubber Is Meeting The Road
The Spiritual Opportunity Of Our Money Pain
I really like this guy , Matt Taibbi, who writes for the Rolling Stone magazine. He again has a great article this month on the continued betrayal of the American people. The article is called “Wall Street Strikes Back” and the table of contents description on Page 5 [...]
The Money Split
The Spiritualization of Money
At the core of all great spiritual teachings is the recognition that as human beings we have two natures. In Hindu, this is talked about in terms of Shiva and Shakti. In Buddhsit Mahamudra, it is the union of luminous clarity and emptiness (Shiva) and Phenomenon. In Dzogchen, it is the union [...]
The Wall Street Hustle
Opting Out of the Big Bank Fiasco and Moving Toward Self Sufficiency
The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a very good case of it, taking us step by step through the [...]
Money and Inquiry
Applying the Spiritual Method of Inquiry to Money
One of the themes that I have continued to talk about is taking responsibility? It seems like an easy concept, but it is actually something very difficult to do. Mostly we like to blame- our mates, our parents, our investment advisor, the government, the economy, Bernie Madoff etc. [...]
Money and Fear
The Survival Instinct and Money
One of the opposing forces in addition to the usual resistances and psychodynamic issues we have to contend with on our journey of realization are the animal instincts. They are powerful drives underneath our consciousness that want to preserve life on an animal level and are not concerned as consciousness is [...]
Facing Limitation Is Being Human
The Economic Crisis as Human Growth in Conciousness
As I spoke about in my last blog, the chase for more is better has been a defining characteristic of our culture for some time. One of the hallmarks of this is the resulting “ubiquitous frenzy , arising from the almost universal discomfort of being with oneself. Everyone [...]
The Answer To Our Credit Crisis
The Antidote to Greed in the Economic Downturn
In my last post I talked about leaving the chase for more is better and a sense of deprivation which fueled that chase and start living in a sense of sufficiency. I also said this would take a shift in consciousness.
In the November 10 Newsweek, in the Article, [...]
Opting Out of Serfdom
Day to Day Living in the New Paradigm
In my last two blogs I talked at length about predatory lending and the debt economy getting us into trouble as a nation and as individuals.
We need to step out of the culture of easy money and magical thinking that allowed Ponzi schemes like Bernie Madoff- but not [...]
Serfdom in the Global Economy
Obama Bailing Out the Banks
In my last post, I talked about debt from the point of view of the individual getting off the wheel of bondage. Today I want to talk about debt again, but from the point of view of the Macro.
Why? Because we can’t talk intelligently about our own money actions without talking [...]