“Addicted to my distractions.”
As you may have noticed, The Chemical Buddha was addicted to a lot (and we do mean a lot) of things. But we think he was really trying to distract himself from his unhappy childhood, and problems holding down a job or finding a good woman. Although he would say his jumping around was about being in the moment and trying to take in as much as possible. And while, on the surface, that seems like a pretty good answer, we’re almost positive that seems like what was going on. But take it from us, once TCB got wasted or came he curled up into the fetal position and bawled like a baby about his childhood. Luckily, he wouldn’t remember any of it because he was soooo wasted.
How do you justify your behavior?
What do you try to forget? Do you think it’s possible to forget the things you’re trying to forget or do the memories come up at the wrong time?
What would work better for you to let them go? Talking about them and releasing them, or stuffing them and trying to forget them?
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Man is Keeping me Down
“I'm allergic to work.”
The Chemical Buddha started telling people this when his chronic unemployment was thrown in his face. In fact, he would often write it on the back of an empty 12 pack of Natural Light and stand on the street corner begging for money. And sometimes it even worked. Oftentimes people just wanted to know if it was a genetic condition and what they needed to do to catch it. The reality is The Chemical Buddha wasn’t just unemployed, he was unemployable. But, as the Buddhists say, even Buddhas have to eat, so he was merely following the begging bowl tradition. But in this case, he was using his begging cardboard. The most important thing to take away from this insight is the importance of finding a reason, no matter how far fetched, for doing what you do. Some lean on the fact that they had a bad childhood, others dwell on their lack of opportunity, and some blame the ‘six white men who control the world.’
What do you not like to do and how do you avoid doing it?
Is it less work to avoid it? Or less work to do it?
The Chemical Buddha started telling people this when his chronic unemployment was thrown in his face. In fact, he would often write it on the back of an empty 12 pack of Natural Light and stand on the street corner begging for money. And sometimes it even worked. Oftentimes people just wanted to know if it was a genetic condition and what they needed to do to catch it. The reality is The Chemical Buddha wasn’t just unemployed, he was unemployable. But, as the Buddhists say, even Buddhas have to eat, so he was merely following the begging bowl tradition. But in this case, he was using his begging cardboard. The most important thing to take away from this insight is the importance of finding a reason, no matter how far fetched, for doing what you do. Some lean on the fact that they had a bad childhood, others dwell on their lack of opportunity, and some blame the ‘six white men who control the world.’
What do you not like to do and how do you avoid doing it?
Is it less work to avoid it? Or less work to do it?
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