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The World Through Zen Eyes Podcast
What we do?
Once a week we take a look at the going-ons of the world and say something about ‘em.
The goal?
None, really. Just trying to make heads and tails of the great world roar of Ooommmmmm.
Why?
To try ‘n keep a modicum of personal sanity. And stay off both the meds and the cool aid.
The point?
Points are sharp and therefore violent. We just go around, and round….and round.
Disclaimer:
The views, perspectives, and humor of the speakers and guests of this podcast do not necessarily represent the those of any associated organizations, businesses, or groups, social, religious,cultural or otherwise. The entirety of the podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Topics discussed and views expressed do not constitute medical advice. As the saying goes “Opinions are like bellybuttons, everybody’s got one”.
The World Through Zen Eyes Podcast
Bonus Track #3: Buckets of Gold or Manure: It's Your Lift
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Have you ever wondered about the incredible strength you unknowingly possess? The strength that allows you to carry heavy worries day after day without collapsing under their weight?
Life presents itself as messy and unnerving—not the neat, nicely packaged experience we might wish for. As we navigate this muddy terrain, we often feel a sense of helplessness and paralysis when facing harsh realities. But this bonus track challenges that very notion. What if the paralysis is false? What if we're already demonstrating superhuman strength by hoisting up our anxieties and carrying them with us—sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, sometimes making them a permanent part of our identity?
The profound insight offered here is deceptively simple yet revolutionary: it takes exactly the same amount of power to lift a bucket of manure as it does to lift a bucket of gold. Both weigh the same. The question becomes not whether you have the strength—you clearly do—but what you choose to carry with that strength. Some people use their money because they suffer poverty of soul. Others use their brains because they suffer from who they are. But what if we redirected the immense energy we expend on worry toward something precious and valuable instead? This perspective flips our understanding of personal power on its head, revealing that we're not helpless at all—we're actually demonstrating remarkable strength, just in service of carrying burdens rather than treasures. Listen now and discover how to transform what you carry in life's journey. What will you choose to lift today?
Dr. Ruben Lambert can be found at wisdomspring.com
Ven. MyongAhn Sunim can be found at soshimsa.org
Welcome to the place where you love me. Come on in when you longed, come out. Welcome to yet another bonus track. The truth, life, existence is unnerving. It's not neat, nicely packaged, easy to open. It's not garn emotions. Our heart, it's the fingernails and we the chalkboard. The truth is mud and we spin our wheels in it.
Speaker 1:To do so, however, is fruitless. It is an immoral squandering of the resources of our spirit, leading us into chronic existential angst, fear and, most of all, frustration. We anguish, wrongly so, in helplessness. Helplessness of worries, agitation, anxiety of seeming paralysis in the face of harsh realities. False, helpless paralysis. But what are we to do? But what are we to do? What do you define as doing? We do what we can.
Speaker 1:Some poor people use their money because they suffer poverty of spirit. Some poor people use their brains because they suffer who they are. We are falsely suffering paralysis of worries, the deeper self, if you will, the powerful self. Consider that it takes the same amount of power muscular power in this case to lift a five-pound bucket of manure. Same amount of power to lift one or the other.
Speaker 1:Consider then, if you will, the powerful way in which we hold and hoist up our worries, our anxieties, our stresses, our stresses with superhuman strength. We hoist them up, these heavy burdens, and we carry them with us, no fatigue. We carry them with us, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, weeks, sometimes we make it a habit, a part of me, we carry this great heavy mass, this great heavy burden. Consider the strength needed to do so, and then consider the possibility that the same can be done with a bucket of gold. Some people use their soul for they know who they are. Some people use their brains because they suffer poverty of soul. Some people use their money because they suffer poverty of soul.
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