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22 Sep 2013

Float

Tory Shulman News buddha, Buddhism, life, meditation, pema, pema chodron, relaxation, space, spiritual, spiritualism, yoga

When I get ready to go out on the town I usually turn up the volume on some Buddhist teachings. No, it's not Kanye but it's something. I was listening to Pema Chodron tonight from her book "Coming Closer to Ourselves." She made this very cool point that I hadn't thought of before. She says: "Life is just a succession of agreeable and disagreeable. Over and over and over again." It's a profound thought. Life isn't a straight line. Life isn't a road you pick for yourself. Life isn't even a highway even thought that's a great fucking song. Life is a succession of agreeable and disagreeable. Over and over and over again. Life goes up…

The Secret-Sauce to Survival

Tory Shulman News adapting, Buddhism, buddhist, depressed, depression, healing, inspiration, lost, meditation, mental health, metaphors, pema chodron, sadness, survival, zen

As most of you know, I'm not a the adventuresome sort. In fact, I am a bit of a homebody. Or as my friends and family sometimes call me--a sad, sad, reclusive hermit. However, I do enjoy the idea of adventure and I find myself absorbing any kind of extreme survival stories, books, TV shows or documentaries I can get my hands on. My latest read was a terrific book called "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why" by Laurence Gonzalez. I highly recommend it. Gonzalez takes you through a myriad of AMAZING survival stories and explains why certain people live and certain people die. Turns out, it has nothing to do with age or gender or…

You have exactly 90 seconds

Tory Shulman News brain, Buddhism, meditation, mental health, pema chodron, science

“I define responsibility as the ability to choose how we respond to stimulation…Although there are certain limbic system programs that can be triggered automatically, it takes less than 90 SECONDS for one of these programs to be triggered, surge through our body, and then be completely flushed out of our blood stream…If, however, I remain angry after those 90 seconds have passed then it is because I have chosen to let that circuit continue to run.” —-“My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. If you didn’t know, Dr. Jill Taylor is a one of the top brain anatomists in the country. In 1996 she famously suffered a severe stroke at the young age of 37 leaving her temporarily,…