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Send a text Topics Discussed: Meditation Generosity  Compassion Mindfulness Efficiency  DOGE People Mentioned: My Family Bob Marley Trump Musk Books to Consider: Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari Money, Lies and God - Katherine Stewart Resurrecting Jesus - Adyashanti Contact: https://www.anotherfinger.com Email: support@anotherfinger.com Donate:   https://www.anotherfinger.com/donate Free month of Waking...

Send a text Discussed in this episode: Topics: Thinking Judgment Attachment Resistance Mindfulness Meditation  People: Marcus Aurelius Lao Tzu Jesus The Buddha Alan Watts Shakespeare Related Books: Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu Alan Watts - The Book Falling Into Grace - Adyashanti Loving What is - Byron Katie The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh https://www.anotherfinger.com...

Send a text Be mindful in all that you think and do. “When you follow a leader, consider what would lead you to withdraw your support. If the answer is nothing, your integrity is in jeopardy. Your highest loyalty belongs to principles, not people. No leader deserves unconditional love. Commitment is earned through character.” -Adam Grant Grant is the host of the WorkLife and ReThinking podcasts He...

Send a text Topics discussed: Connections and synchronicities. Non-attachment, non-resistance, non-judgment. Mental suffering, depression.  Happiness and acceptance. Books mentioned: The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler M.D. and The Dalai Lama Falling Into Grace by Adyashanti Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Links: Free month of Waking Up, my meditation app of choice: https://dynamic.wakingup...

Send a text The New Year, with the darkest days of winter just behind us, is a great time to Begin Again. Don't give up! Links: https://www.anotherfinger.com  Email: support@anotherfinger.com    Free month of Waking Up: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/d5251a Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/another-finger/id1526096210 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cMYCxrGf3b...

Send a text This episode I decided to share some of my favorite books I read or listened to in 2023. Here's a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Fiction: Tenth of December - George Saunders Liberation Day - George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman Philosophy: The Creative Act - Rick Rubin  The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts....

Send a text With the New Year upon us, many of us have embarked on the old tradition of setting New Years Resolutions. We do a little inventory on our lives and determine to change what we don’t like about ourselves, our behaviors or environment. We’ll try to ad that which is missing, or subtract that which is useless or harmful in one way or another. In general, I think this self reflection a goo...

Send a text Lo and behold, Santa delivered this episode directly to your device while you were sleeping! What a sneaky and jolly good fellow. Christmas itself has changed more than my opinions about it. As I get older, and now have a child of my own, my relationship to this holiday continues to change. https://www.anotherfinger.com  Email: support@anotherfinger.com    Free month of Waking Up: http...

Send a text I couldn't decide what to title this episode so as not to give it all away. There were several good title contenders: Doobie Dilemma, Doobie Dunce, Kush Core, Cannabis Coma, Cannabis Creep, Cannabis Corpse, Moderate Mary, From  Mary to Buddha, Taking the Bud out of Buddha etc. the list could go on and on. Ultimately, I decided on Cannabinoid Android for the reference to the Radioh...

Send a text The big news is revealed. Plus, how do you pull yourself out of a creative funk? What have I been doing since my last recording?  Just the act of freely expressing oneself, even if only to oneself, is extremely liberating. If you stick with it until the steam subsides, you just might get to the root of the issue.  Free month of Waking Up: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/d5...

Send a text Recorded on August 3, 2023, the third anniversary of the podcast. This episode sat untouched for nearly 4 months before I edited it. This episode is a bit of a three year recap, some things I've noticed, learned, and would like to change. Why has it taken 3 and a half months to edit this episode? We'll talk about that in Episode 25. Stay tuned. Free month of Waking Up: https:...

Send a text She is here! The light has emerged out of the darkness. All things are held in a state of balance. Picture the Chinese symbol of Yin Yang. Equal parts black and white, which chase one another in a circle infinitely. They coexist. They are intertwined. Not a single thing is exempt from this. There is a dark side to everything light, but there’s also a light side to everything dark. Ther...

Send a text These are my final words as a childless man. Our baby is due to be born this week and I am equally excited and nervous. I just want to do good by this human being. Also, some big news is revealed at the end. Stick around. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins   Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Send a text Ep 20: J is now 20 weeks pregnant! We're halfway there… to the beginning.  Plus, fiction. I've been reading it, and enjoying it! Cover Art: Rory Jenkins   Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Send a text Our choices have determined much of our life.  Choose wisely. Happy Holidays! Give well, receive well.  Be mindful of your Resolutions this year. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins   Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Send a text A brief review of my experience my first 7 day silent retreat with Refuge Recovery and Noah Levine. I encourage you to find a retreat and enjoy it. Go deep. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins   Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Send a text About to walk in to a week long silent retreat. This will be my first retreat of any kind. Excited to see what's on the other side. Also... there is some Big News in here, but you must listen to learn. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins   Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Send a text This is a call to use mindfulness as we vote this election cycle. There are ideas for healing our great division in the U.S. This is also a plea to treat others with kindness, love, and respect. If you're interested in finding common ground, and you'd like to have an open and honest discussion or you believe I am missing some information which you have access to, feel free to...

Send a text Vacations are interesting things. They are like little life microcosms. In most instances we attempt to vacate our regular lives, jobs and responsibilities. Yet we find pretty quickly that we cannot escape ourselves. Sometimes in an attempt to be free of stress for a short time, we end up creating a lot more of it through our planning and expectations. We make a plan and we want to sti...

Send a text A few years ago I was having a difficult time in my mind. My life on paper was great, but I was constantly being bombarded with thoughts of inadequacy, meaninglessness, and unimportance.  I had heard the founder of Headspace, a meditation app, in a radio interview some months earlier and had downloaded the app upon his promise of making life a little bit better if I dedicated at least...

Send a text Don’t cheat yourself. Learn to enjoy every moment. Learn to be present in the now. If you can make these slight shifts in your mental attitudes you will regret nothing. You will have lived life to its fullest. The quality of your life will meet exactly the quality of your attention now. If you choose to rush through, that’s what you’ll get. If you choose to be annoyed, that’s what you’...

Send a text  I have been asked to record a few guided meditations from some of you who listen, so here is the first of them. This is a meditation from Noah Levine's Refuge Recovery World Services' (RRWS) program. I highly recommend the book; Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovery From Addiction to anyone struggling with addictive behaviors of any kind. Thanks to my good friend who...

Send a text We know little to nothing about all of what is going on around us at any given moment. It is natural for us to want to make sense of the world, just spend some time with a curious child and you’ll see this natural tendency. Our desire for knowledge may take us further from the Eternal Tao, that which cannot be named. Perhaps this is because we begin to divide and categorize and label e...

Send a text Meditation is itself a practice in doing not doing. While it is true that meditation is an action which we perform, what we are really doing is absolutely nothing. This action of non-action can be difficult for many people to accept, especially in the west, where we have a difficult time just sitting and doing nothing. Free month of Waking Up: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAcce...

Send a text Free month of Waking Up: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/d5251a Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/another-finger/id1526096210 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cMYCxrGf3brRjQvj6SBvJ?si=Cle2fGlwQkqXr5GpXsN6Xg YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQfLN0PW4J8KkFr86y8lifA Alan Watts has an analogy to life, or of living life rather, to that of dancing or playi...