Category Archives: CONNECTION

I AM

As humans, we always feel the need to label everything. Especially ourselves. I am this and I am that. I am short, tall, fat, skinny, brown, black, white, legend. Labels help us form an idea around something and thus allow ourselves to believe we have some kind of control. If this is then, then that [...]
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3 Reasons Why You Should Teach What You Learn

There is no greater feeling than knowing that we can spend most of our time doing whatever we want. Absolutely any kind of information we are seeking is just a Google search, a library book or a person away. All we gotta do is put in the effort and we can pretty much learn whatever [...]
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LovingKindness

Currently I am rereading When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron.  And I’ve realized the general ideas behind buddhism has been guiding me for a better chunk of my life now. It just makes sense to me. I know because I know. Every religion will have people that claim that theirs is the best. Yet [...]
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How The First Noble Truth Can Help You Feel Less Insecure In Bars And Clubs

Buddhism can be summed up in four truths. (1) Life is suffering (2) Holding on to anything IS the cause of suffering (3) There is a way out of suffering (4) The eightfold path is the way The first noble truth states that life is suffering. Simply being born, we get sick and get old. [...]
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There Are Many Paths To The Top Of The Mountain, But The View Is Always The Same

One of my favorite spiritual metaphors of all time is The Mountain. The idea being that the world’s different religions and ideas are many paths you can take to reach the top. The funny thing is…. it always leads up to the same place! Introduced to me by the same teacher who showed me The [...]
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WHY A COMMUNITY IS IMPORTANT

There is no you, there is no me, there is only us -Brother Ali “Rock you should go watch that show The Pickup Artist on VH1.” my bff Christine suggested to me. I did and my life has never been the same since. I remember stumbling upon the pickup community last November and thinking to [...]
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HBAUSTRIA

So for tonight I thought I’d post a story from the weekend. What? You didn’t think this blog was gonna be all self improvement articles, did ya? Here is my field report from last weekend over at Wrigleyville. A field report is a report of a pua’s experience in the field, a recounting of the [...]
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