Friday, September 21, 2012

Most Paradoxical Headline of the Week

Our Most Paradoxical Headline of the Week is brought to you by The Washington Post's website:

More than a dozen killed in riots as 'Day of Love' for prophet in Pakistan turn deadly
 


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A Few Quotes Concerning Substance Abuse, Addiction and the Human Mind


Drugs can bring about meaningful experiences, but the one who takes a drug has not made causes for such effects. He has just temporarily altered nature, like injecting a monkey with hormones that send him shooting up a tree to pick coconuts. Such experiences my be true but not good or good but not true, whereas the Dharma is always both good and true.” Achaan Chah, A Still Forest Pool

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Between the stimulus and the response there is a space and in that space lies our freedom.” Bob Stahl, PhD, from his GoogleTechTalks video presentation on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu5irWStNvA

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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, (Robin) Williams had an addiction to cocaine; he has stated that he has since quit. Williams was a close friend of and frequent partier alongside John Belushi. He says the death of his friend and the birth of his son prompted him to quit drugs: ‘Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped too.’” — from the Wikipedia entry on Robin Williams, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams

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Though one were to conquer a million men in battle, that man who conquers himself is the greater victor.” — The Dhammapada, verse 103

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The way of the vow: SAJJA

“The Pali word ‘sacca’ (usually spelt sajja and pronounced sat-cha) means a solemn declaration about the active fulfillment of a truth.

“According to Luangpor Charoen, (Abbot of Thamkrabok Monastery), the physical detox is only 5% of the Thamkrabok treatment. You must do the remaining 95% of the work in your mind and through your action.

“If you want to enter the drug-detox area and start with the purification of your body, you will have to go through the ceremony of SAJJA. The Sajja is a very essential element here in Thamkrabok. It might be the most serious and the most important thing you have done so far in your life.

“The Sajja looks like a vow. But it is far more than just a promise ‘to be a good guy’ or ‘a good girl’ from now on, having nothing to do anymore with consuming or promoting alcohol or other drugs.

“Sajja is a sacred act that, if you believe in it, will connect you with your will power and with something ‘beyond’. Something that is far more existential than the fight against the drugs! It connects you with a teaching. This teaching is not given in the form of intellectual lectures. But it will be there for you in any moment you really want it strongly enough and when you are ready for it.”

— from the website for Wat Thamkrabok, a legendary drug treatment center and Buddhist monastery in Thailand

The Kwik Kar Archives: The Neck from...PLANET X!!!

Wow...how time flies! Seems like it was just yesterday when Kwik Kar Scioness Debbie Lincoln's husband Mike had the neck operation (2003). And yes, that's a copy of Mike's actual neck X-Ray image we used in the ad. I swear that whatever the doctors put in poor Mike's neck looked exactly like a section of chain from an old Harley-Davidson. See for yourself:


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