Throughout history every since they have been keeping records civilizations experimented with fasting. Many religions incorporated fasting doctrines because It allowed a platform in which to guide their people. The earliest monks practiced fasting because they believed it not only cleansed and purified their bodies, but it helped them get closer in their [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 30, 2007
Zentraveler interviews Bigfoot!
During a blistery snow storm in the Himalayas I spotted a single light in the distant and started to feel warm all over as if someone was breathing hot air down my neck. My god I have always heard just before you freeze to death you begin to feel warm and then its curtain [...]
January 29, 2007
Zentraveler opens weight loss clinic!
How could I achieve the status of a Doctor and bypass 22 years of intense education— not to mention owing the banking community a percentage of the gross national product?
Open your own franchised weight loss clinic. We have done all of the hard work for you. It’s so simple even a caveperson could do it!
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January 26, 2007
Zentraveler explores reasons to become a vegetarian!
It all started with Adam and Eve who were strict vegetarians. In fact it never crossed their minds to slaughter a cow and eat it. They didn’t need to gut a pig and throw the entrails on the ground to predict the future or make sacrificial lambs to their gods. They were just [...]
January 25, 2007
Zentraveler’s guide to healthfood stores!
Just like Nick Nolte the famous hollywood actor maybe it’s time to make a few life changes. You look at yourself and decide I’m going to eat and live healthy. Off you go in your new neon green Hummer decked out in bright orange shorts, fish belt, purple crocs, gold embossed sports shirt— topped [...]
January 24, 2007
Zentraveler uses Zen techniques to stop brain chatter!
Sitting with your favorite shrink the conversation might go something like this. Too much data doc where is all of this information coming from and were is it heading. My computer is overloaded I need to slow down. ” Have you ever tried Meditation?” Yes I have tried meditation— especially the zen [...]
January 23, 2007
Zentraveler paints like a caveperson!
It all started when aunt fernie taught me to draw a dirty stick figure in first grade. We were asked to draw a picture by Miss Mosteller and I turned in a stick figure boy pissing in a bowl. She preceded to grab me by the neck and drug me to the cloak [...]
January 23, 2007
Zentraveler seeks disagreeable person!
A Zen student was moving from India to Tibet and he had heard that all of the people of Tibet were so nice, friendly and agreeable he became concerned that he would not have anyone to serve as as his instructor so he brought his tea servant along, a most disagreeable, surly and argumentative fellow [...]
January 22, 2007
Zentraveler adjusts the doomsday clock!
You know we can do it just look at history. If Mahatma Gandhi himself could polarize millions of people on one wave length and Martin Luther King could transform a nation by stating “I have a dream” then it’s up to us to take advantage of the electronic age and blog ourselves into the [...]
January 19, 2007
Zentraveler trains like a cat!
A Buddhist Zen master told a student if he really wanted the essence of zen he should emulate the cat. I spent the first day in the observation mode which included watching the cat sit on the windowsill motionless for hours. The cat leaped off the windowsill and headed to the far edge [...]
