“It takes 3 times as much energy to get rid of something as it does to buy it.”
The Chemical Buddha was a bit of a pack rat. He was always holding on to stuff because he thought he might need it someday. Then, he’d have so much shit he couldn’t find what he needed, so he’d go out and buy another one. Which meant he ended up with two or three. Of course, he never had multiple cases of beer or pounds of pot. That stuff was consumed as it was bought. Through this process, The Chemical Buddha realized how much energy it took to sort through, organize, and decide what shit to get rid of. He found that what took seconds to buy took minutes, hours, days, even weeks to get rid of. Luckily, he was always being evicted from his apartment and all of his shit was either thrown out on the street with him or trashed. Making the sorting job someone else’s problem.
What is your relationship with stuff? Do you have too much? Too little?
Why do you hang onto what you have?
How much time do you spend deciding what to get rid of?
How might your life be easier with less?
About The Elvis of Enlightenment
- The Chemical Buddha
- Not much is known about The Chemical Buddha (as he preferred to be called) other than he was a crack baby with fetal alcohol syndrome born into a family of hippie hedonists. Throughout his life, The Chemical Buddha sought spiritual enlightenment through excess. To put it quite simply, he saw himself as the Elvis of Enlightenment. While still in his-mid twenties, The Chemical Buddha left this earthly plain for the last time while beer bonging chicken gravy and shooting heroin as he engaged in an orgy that included at least four members of the amphibian family. His last coherent words, before he asphyxiated on vomit that was not entirely his own, was “Nirvana. Choke! Gag! Cough!” Did The Chemical Buddha transcend his earthly bonds through his unorthodox lifestyle? Did he find the key to “Nirvana?” Or was he answering a music trivia question? Here is a collection of the thoughts, sayings, views and bathroom graffiti that has been attributed to The Chemical Buddha. Was he a mystic sent to show us the way or just another drugged out freak that incoherently babbled a few crude views about life? Decide for yourself. This blog of his teaching is maintained by his "monks."
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