It’s raining pebbles, and your wheelbarrow is filling up!
You have accepted the job of pushing a wheelbarrow up a gradual slope to the top of a long and graceful climb, with a beautiful view at the summit. Cold tea and lemonade are waiting on ice.
It’s easy at first. The barrow is new. The wheel rolls firmly and smoothly.
But then it starts raining small rocks. They don’t hurt you, and most plink off the barrow, but some start collecting.
After a while, the barrow doesn’t roll as smoothly because it’s taking on weight. The slope of the hill is working harder against your strength and momentum.
Eventually, the barrow fills, becomes unmanageable, and tips over, taking you and it tumbling down the hill.
You lose.
Try it again, but don’t try to be a superhero this time. Instead, stop and dump the barrow consistently, emptying the small pebbles.
Make it to the top fast. Get your pay.
Drink the lemonade.
Hell, make yourself an Arnold Palmer 🧋
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Your life is the hill.
You are the wheelbarrow.
The rocks are pressure from the outside world.
The barrow filling up, tipping over, and falling is your depression, your addiction, your cruelty, your divorce, and the stress disease trying to kill you.
Falling down the mountain is an early death and suicide.
Emptying the wheelbarrow consistently is meditation.
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Stop fooling around with your life and turn inward.
Meditate 20 minutes, twice every day.
Empty your wheelbarrow, dummy.
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What I’ve Learned From Several Years Of Daily Transcendental Meditation
I was nearly run off the road, and it was my fault. I flipped the guy the finger. I looked at him across the lanes of highway traffic, looked him right in the eye, and mouthed the words my finger was already saying. And it nearly got me killed.
The Twin Peaks Home Stretch!
I’ll be soon done writing about Twin Peaks for a long time, maybe for good. With the conclusion of the 2nd Edition of A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, and over a million words written on the topic since 2017, I will have said what I need to say about my experience with the art.
And then it will be time to move on. But before that, I have three more parts to finish.
The Resurrection of the Red Room Podcast
It’s Easter Sunday, and I am at a Men’s Transcendental Meditation Retreat. I am eliminating stress from my body and mind with asanas, clean organic vegetarian food, daily walks in deep nature, and multiple rounds of TM. Additionally, I will be discuss raising human consciousness through daily practices of health and balance.
When I return, I will tackle a new project (see below). No, I’m not rebooting the Red Room. It’s dead and gone. But I want to reflect on how it happened and what it all meant. And we’re going to revisit some of these episodes along the journey.
Thank you, and I’ll see you on the other side!
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