May 2011
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May 1st
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April 2011
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Apr 30th
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The Wake Up
I am going to give you all a piece of technology. This technology was given to me by a powerful tantrik in his own right. It is called waking up.  Read these words, they are charged with power and intent. Shift your perspective to try and understand everything through this lens.  Everything is God pretending to be otherwise. All of us are actors who have forgotten we are on stage, forgotten of...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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usgroovykids22-deactivated20130 asked: how would you define yourself?
Apr 30th
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“Gradually as we practice meditation, we gain more control over the mind. When we...”
– Shri ShivaRudraBalaYogi
Apr 30th
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Anonymous asked: how does one become a devotee of a guru?
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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How to Cultivate Bodhicitta (Loving-Kindness)
Smile at a stranger. 
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Anonymous asked: I sent you a message a while ago asking for help regarding controlling desire while under an altered state of mind influenced by marijuana but you never responded. I was really hoping you might be able to help. :/
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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“Sitting in meditation allows me to see the impermanence of all this financial...”
– William Harryman (tricycle.com)
Apr 28th
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Anonymous asked: Do you have to know/meet your Guru, for he/she to be your Guru?
Apr 28th
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usgroovykids22-deactivated20130 asked: Do you strictly adhere to Hidnu/Vedic teachings, or are you very Eclectic (taking things from other beliefs - e.g- Buddhism, Taoism...)?
Apr 28th
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Postmodernism, Yoga, and the Occult
“Postmodern” is one of those words many people throw around without really knowing what it means. Trying to define it often embarrasses the fool who sets himself to the task. And so I will shoulder said risk as I lay the following piece of thought before you.  Postmodernism is a kind of awareness. It fosters endless perspectives because of one thing and one thing alone: postmodernism...
Apr 28th
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usgroovykids22-deactivated20130 asked: Who do you consider as your greatest Gurus/Teachers?
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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ohhelloholly asked: So I'm intrigued by you lazyyogi and am wondering what it is I want to ask you - I guess to start: are you mostly self taught? The reason for my intrigue stems from my own soulful search, which only began a few years ago in my very late 30s.
Apr 25th
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Some Zen Art I've been doing on my new iPad!
Warning: looking at Zen art in a certain way may cause shifts in consciousness. :P
Apr 25th
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Anonymous asked: what do you feel about the 'third eye'? have you ever tried to open your's or what?
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Lazy Koan #5
Many people have interests in meditation. They have interests in yoga and spirituality. They have interests in asking questions. Some put these interests aside to be dealt with or engaged in later. I ask: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. When is the Dharma??
Apr 24th
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“Silence is another kind of space. When everything is quiet and suddenly there is...”
– Ken McLeod (tricycle.com)
Apr 24th
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usgroovykids22-deactivated20130 asked: What is a day in the life of you, like?
Apr 24th
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The Three Jewels
I apologize for my brief absence! My girlfriend came for a surprise visit. It was wonderful.  One thing that has been on my mind lately are the Three Jewels of Buddhism. Buddhism is groovy in that people don’t convert to it, they take shelter in it. This is an important difference to understand. Buddhism is a Way, a technology that jives with the cosmos. It is not the only one but it is...
Apr 24th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“There aren’t that many fundamental, or root, principles of dharma. The Buddha...”
– Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Apr 20th
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More on Tantra
Earlier this week, a fellow yogi-brother of mine asked a question integral to tantra: How does one reconcile the wisdom that no external source should be relied upon for happiness with the desire for a partner? The answer is not so simple. Tantric sex cannot occur out of desire. It can only happen out of desirelessness.  Part of tantra is using gender energies to catalyze shifts in...
Apr 20th
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“Directly upon encountering the Dharma, we will abandon the law of the world.”
– Dogen
Apr 20th
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windandwaves asked: Hi uhm so I've recently realized that I just can't seem to meditate when I'm high. I used to be able to no problem and did it pretty frequently but now I can only do it when I'm very sober and it's a much longer process getting myself to even relax and when I try and push my thoughts away it feels like 10 times as many rush back. Although the other night I was smoking...
Apr 20th
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Anonymous asked: Dear Lazy Yogi,

I need some help. I'd like to try meditating while stoned to get another perspective on my meditative thoughts/feelings while under the psycho/spiritual influence of pot, but whenever I smoke I get the SEVERE urge to binge eat. It's funny in a way. I can joke about how smoking pot gives me the munchies but when I'm high my relationship with food is...
Apr 20th
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Lazy Koan number, uh, 4?
Where are your thoughts before you have them? After?
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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lauraogden-deactivated20110429 asked: I was going so well with meditation, doing it everyday, and I was starting to really feel at peace with everything. But lately I just keep falling back into old habits and feeling so lost. It's so hard to stop slipping back into feeling terrible, I don't know what to do because I keep trying to make things go right and nothing will. How do you keep focus so well?
Apr 19th
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The Autumn Moon
The above image is an example of buddhist art. The wonderful thing about the art that buddhism has produced is that the works demonstrate both admirable beauty and enlightened insight.  Here we see an old man laboring with a chore by the riverside, accompanied by his servant boy. Together they are grinding taro roots into a bucket for food. However, in the midst of their chore, the old man...
Apr 19th
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“The Buddha taught that freedom is going beyond conditions. For me, the people...”
– Vinny Ferraro (tricycle.com)
Apr 19th
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“The practice of meditation is basically a process of getting to know yourself...”
– From Ponlop Rinpoche’s Rebel Buddha
Apr 18th
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True Magic
A poem by Ponlop Rinpoche, author of Rebel Buddha: Thought …  You’re the best actor  Hollywood has ever seen  Your dramas …  Have higher ratings than any soap operas on TV  Can’t imagine missing any of your episodes  Your special effects …  Exceed the best of DreamWorks  So real they can even fool their creator  How can this world exist without your creativity?  The world would...
Apr 18th
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“Vairagya (detachment) is not depression. It is an alertness that nothing belongs...”
– Shri ShivaRudraBalaYogi
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Anonymous asked: do you practice Bhakti yoga and if yes to whom are you showing devotion to?
Apr 18th
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Rebel Buddha, A Book Review
“Dzogchen Ponlop (Mind Beyond Death) focuses on the experiential aspects of Buddhism that transcend culture…He argues that everyone has a “rebel Buddha” within that wants to wake up, be free, and see the truth in the midst of illusion. The traditionally educated Tibetan-American uses straightforward, informal language with fresh analogies to examine a range of basic and...
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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wanderinmymind asked: lazy yogi,

i just thought (since i've been asking you a couple of questions about meditation this week) that i'd let you know that i got mala beads and meditated today :) it felt absolutely amazing and completely surreal.

your blog has inspired me infinitely, so i owe a lot of the courage to start meditating to you.

lots of love and great...
Apr 18th
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“We try to turn a profit in practice—to get something from it. We try to get...”
– Sensei Nancy Mujo Baker
Apr 18th
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“Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The...”
– Ramakrishna
Apr 17th
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kikiiii asked: I try so hard to be a happy, positive person.. but I feel like I keep slipping into this dark, negative place. Without thinking about it, or without anything actually going wrong, I just feel so miserable constantly. I feel like my emotions are on such a roller coaster. Any Advice?
Apr 17th
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