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Checking email and ‘socializing’ online have taught me how I am a slave to the Eight Worldly Concerns. A super enlightened guy (our buddy Buddha) said that humans are preoccupied with four buckets of mud – pleasure/pain, gain/loss, fame/disgrace, praise/blame. We ping pong all over the place: We hope for – we chase – pleasure, gain, fame and praise. We fear – we hide from – pain, loss, disgrace and blame.
A walk through my inbox, or Facebook and Instagram feeds makes Buddha’s clarity very clear to me. It’s obvious that clicking, replying, commenting, skimming make me more and more “wanty” and fearful. I lose my awareness, and get lost in a dizzying maze of keeping up, doing, doing, doing.
I want this and that, repeatedly. A never-ending cycle. Every mouth-watering chocolaty recipe makes me crave the pleasure of tasting something sweet. And then immediately, the disgrace of becoming overweight chimes in. I want to travel to those white sandy beaches, and look Photoshopped in real life. But then, being blamed for “not working hard enough” rears its colossal head. I want more followers, more great outfits, more money, more accomplishments, and more acknowledgments. I want a big fat thumbs up, not a thumbs-down life! I don’t want fame, per se, but I want to be appreciated and lauded for my work by a circle of admirers (first and foremost my own kids!). Be critically acclaimed and awarded by those who have “good taste”. But at the same time, I can’t bear being criticized, fried by one-star reviews or ordinaryness. Eek. I really am a ping pong ball.
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