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zen_monkey

About Me



See things as they are, not as you want them to be...

Goenka

My Interests

yoga, snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, golf, tennis, rollerblading, basketball.

Music:

groove armada, mgmt, the grateful dead, fugiya & miyagi, rouge wave, sonice youth, panic at the disco, white stripes, deep dish, the killers, bjork, donna deLory, deva premal, george harrison, gilberto santa rosa, zap mama, the brazillian girls

Movies:

Into the Wild, Pans Labyrinth, Grizzly Man, Fountain, Casablanca, Alpha Dog, Barton Fink, Being John Malkovich, Blade Runner, A Beautiful Mind, The Chumscrubber, Brazil, The Children of Men, Dazed and Confused, 12 Monkeys, The Machinist, Donny Darko, Memento, American Beauty, Lost Highway, Zoolander, Starky & Hutch ...

Television:

The Riches, Planet Earth- BBC

Heroes:



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My Blog

Maya

I'm pretty sure I'm going to name my new puppy, Maya.  Here's the 411: Maya (Sanskrit ???? maya[1] ), in Hinduism, is a term describing many things. Maya is the phenomenal world of separate objec...
Posted by zen_monkey on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:39:00 PST

Going through the fire

Tim Miller is an incredible teacher.  40 students from around the world are here to study with the master.  Asana is only a fraction of what we're learning.  other subjects in...
Posted by zen_monkey on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

Satya

This article is about the Sanskrit word. For other meanings see Satya (disambiguation). Satya is a Sanskrit word that loosely translates into English as "Truth." Satya is pronounced like Libya, with...
Posted by zen_monkey on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:09:00 PST

1% Theory

33%     Inside 33%     Margin 33%     Outside 1%       Theory     Inside From the most outwardly living skin c...
Posted by zen_monkey on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:20:00 PST

Interactions- top of the morning thoughts

As much as possible, one should strive to treat everyone the same.  And of course treat others how you would want to be treated.  For a while there, I was considering two other ways of inte...
Posted by zen_monkey on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:03:00 PST

nyc

Last week NY I saw a couple of musicals, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Hilarious) and Beauty and the Beast (Classic).  Yesterday I went to MOMA...
Posted by zen_monkey on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:20:00 PST

Bodies

I went to see the "Bodies" exhibition today at the Seaport in NYC today.  Quite a humbling experience.  It certainly made me feel honored to have a body...  It's cool from the outside, ...
Posted by zen_monkey on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:38:00 PST

Welcome in the New Year

Some of the following are surely ideas passed on from some famous zen, buddhist, or taoist philosophers... sorry about not giving proper credit...  If you know who said the ma...
Posted by zen_monkey on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:20:00 PST