This summer on the too cool for school bus.

   

      Look at this photo.   ..on first glace it’s just me sitting in my bus.. ..but look further and you will notice something strange.  …that’s right.  I use my kitchen in my living area.  They are both actually the same room.  I'm not only used to it.  I prefer it that way.  ..but what’s behind that door back there?  Wouldn't you like to know.   Okay I'll tell you. 
  It’s where I shower and poo and stuff like that… but not in the exact same place.  There is a shower and separate toilet.  Ill show you later… past that is yet another door. ..oooh secret.  It is where I have a little art and craft room.  Fun!!!  ..and past that is another door.  It makes you fall right out the back side of the bus.   

This summer I have been at the beach and drawing and juggling everyday and sitting in my bus….got me thinking some…  Here is some of that thinky stuff and some pictures of inside my bus.

HOW TO REALLY END WAR AND EXPLOITATION AND A BUNCH OF THAT BAD STUFF FOR GOOD

A lot of people seem worried about the problems in the world today.  It’s easy to do.  I hear pretty freaky stories about what kind of bad stuff is happening and our world leaders often make some horrible and self serving choices.  World leaders actually make decisions like bombing cities where children and families live so they can take over and send in their own business to rebuild or make money off of oil or some other silly crap.  Other powerful people who own media misrepresent or don’t report important stories of how their other businesses and powerful friends are doing nasty things to the planet and to people and to animals.  They also don't report much on the resistance to all that. This all happens on purpose so they can get more money and power..   …Weird.  That's super weird really.  So hard to understand….  How to solve this?  What kind of person acts this way?   …Well it turns out that we know exactly what kind of person acts this way.  It has a name.  It can be diagnosed.   Narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths excel at politics and business.   Those things can be tested for.  In some cases it can even be seen in these crazy pictures of the brain that doctors can take.   Right now we test mass amounts of the poorest people in the country before they can get a job or even get welfare.  We test them for marijuana to make sure they aren’t trying to ease their poverty stricken life with a little of gods sweet herb.  There are lots of excuses for this, like making sure they are normal enough to perform their jobs without endangering people.   Well then wouldn’t it make more sense to test the people who have the capability to endanger the most lives?  They must be able to perform their job correctly.  A representatives job is to represent other people. If you are not capable of feeling empathy, then you are not capable of having others best interests in mind; thus not capable of representing someone.  A psychopath cannot do the job they are elected to do and this is easily tested for.  It's a hell of a lot easier to test a few rich and powerful men then it is to test everybody for weed.  This is totally doable.  And so we will.  Start by signing these petitions and getting the idea out there.  All you have to do is click on them and type your name to sign them.  Sign them both and pass them around.  They are both the same.

https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/ban-psychopaths-from-government?source=facebook-share-button&time=1407257393

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/ban-psychopaths-from.fb48?source=c.fb&r_by=969419

HOW TO END SUFFERING,  BECOME  MORE REALIZED, AND PRETTY MUCH MAKE JOHN LENNON'S IMAGINE SONG COME TRUE. 

     This one is as easy as the last one.  Easier really.  All you have to do is look.   Look at yourself and look at your life.  and be super honest about it.  All you have to do is really look.  ..but you’re probably not going to do that yet.  You are busy.  Busy distracting yourself.  Reading this, working too much, seeing people all the time, watching something on a screen, thinking about politics and the world situation, getting stoned or drunk.  Anything but spending some sober time by yourself to really notice life.  I’m super guilty of this too.  Very.

     Take some time to notice your life and here is what you might notice.   ..There is no you.  You are just a label.  An idea.  That’s what your mind does.  It recognizes patterns and makes labels.  That’s it.  You might have had a sneaky suspicion about this or you might think that it is bullshit.  Either way you need to test it out.   If it’s bullshit then you have nothing to lose, if there is no you and you notice it then you also have nothing to lose.    It’s not just meditation you need to do.  That helps.  Mindfulness meditation and direct pointing are the methods.  Not going into trance this time but sitting to become more aware and awake and to notice your body and your thought processes.   This is some of the stuff I have been doing this summer sitting around in my bus.  Lets do it now.  Hurray!!!

     A MEDITATION…KIND OF…

Sit comfy but up right.  Maybe cross legged (is it okay to say Indian style like when we were kids?).   Sit with some good posture.                                                                                                                                           Breath through your honker.  Do it nice and slow and deep.                                                                                                                             
     Notice your heart beat.  ………Are you doing that?  Are you beating your heart?  ….or is your heart beating you?                                                                                                                                                       Notice your thoughts.    ….where do they come from?  Are you thinking?  Are you doing that?  Let them come and go like clouds.  That’s what they do.                                     
     Notice that your stomach is releasing the exact perfect chemicals to digest the exact foods you ate earlier and if you ate something different then it would release different chemicals ….   How do you know how to do that?  Wow!  You sure must be smart.     ….Wait, you can’t even notice that last one… and you aren’t doing it.  It’s just happening.  It’s the universe that has the smarts.    ..and you can tune into that.    It’s behind your thinking and its much more wise and kind then thinking is.                                                                                                   
     Now notice your hearing.  You’re not doing anything either.   There doesn’t need to be a “you” to hear.   Hearing happens.   So does your seeing.  Look at that.  It doesn’t stop.  Even if your eyes close you just see the back of the lids.      (haha, “look at seeing”)

Try to do stuff like that.  Notice the difference between the real and the imagined.  Try to get a feel for the for real.    I was thinking about  this here crazy country.  What is it?  Is it the land area?  I have been to the borders.  They are imaginary and invisible.  Is it the people?  Then if I put all the people in china is china America.. or is it Americans in china?  Is it the music?  Sound waves?  The culture?  Hand me a piece of culture please.  Is it the food?  If I make some B’s and G’s for breakfast in Mexico am I now in the U.S.?   It’s just a label for reference.    And so are you.  It means nothing.  No countries.  No self.
     haha, and don't get me started on no religion too. hahaaha

What does getting rich or famous mean when you realize you are just an idea and an idea is not a thing?  What happens to a fancy title that some ego dude made up and gave you on a piece of paper that makes you feel like a bigger ego dude when there is no more ego?   What is patriotism when you realize there are no countries?  This ends racism too…its just another idea…so is religion.   It’s a belief and now the game is getting rid of belief to see reality for what it truly is and truly we aren’t brothers and sisters…we are so much more than that. 

Of course I couldn’t have come up with any of this on my own.  Tons of brilliant folk thought it up and figured it out and I just want to help spread the word and realize it all more myself.  Here are links to free books and web sites of amazing people and philosophers who have sat on this for years to find the end of suffering and the no self realization that goes back all the way to the beginnings of zen Buddhism and probably much further.   Some of these people are so damn smart…  I don’t even want to be that smart.   Hell, they sit and think all day.  Literally.   I have other hobbies.  I like to draw and juggle and travel, and make sweet love, and play on this computer and many things.  But they are amazing and did the work for us.  “Every revolution is first a philosophical one”.   Some of these sites will walk you through it step by step.  Awakening is happening now on a grand scale.  But we have to hurry. 


Here are some links.

This crazy book is free and coming across it changed my life http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Brutal-Beginnings-ebook.pdf

This brilliant fellow broke the code on human suffering http://ruthlesstruthdotcom.blogspot.com/

This site is a great starting point http://www.no-self.com/

This site is sooo cool too.  And great name.  Ghost virus....oooh...maybe we are just a ghost virus. hahahah!http://ghostvirus2011.blogspot.com/

Here is another free e-book that is short but amazing. http://www.mediafire.com/?mhg99y6fk2wxtoo

This is a big site with all sorts of free info.   An ebook, videos, even an app!  An app for realizing whats up.  wow.  http://liberationunleashed.com/

And there is tons more all over the net!

HOW TO END MALNUTRITION AND THE PROBLEM OF DIRTY DRINKING WATER

A one word solution.  “Moringa”.  ..No, make that a 3 word solution.  “Mother F#*ing Moringa!!!

What happens when we don’t need their grocery stores or their doctors anymore?  What happens when they come and ask us to work their slave jobs and we don’t need their money?  Who is rich then and who is poor? 

Moringa tree is easy to grow and drought resistant.

 I will be growing this everywhere when I travel so we can all be happy and healthy.   If you research the info just goes on and on.  Here is a list of some of its qualities.   

Moringa grows best in places that it is needed the most.

And you can squeeze a lot of oil from the seed.  It's super healing and moisturizing and fuel can be made from it...http://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/moringa-biodiesel-meets-social-technical-commercial-criteria/ and you can filter water with the left over husk of the seed.  You can do this at home and they are even doing it on a large scale..  Look at this link!  Water treatment with Moringa. https://www.uu.se/en/news/news-document/?id=3080&area=2,16&typ=artikel&na=&lang=en

And you can make stuff out of the fibers.

As my trees grow I will get more and more seeds and powder and oil to as many everybody as I can.

Here I am doing some indoor gardening with my trees.

Okay.   In case you haven’t noticed.  That’s a lot of the bases.  People's problems solved.  Now lets get to work on it.  …well I have some other really great things in the works too…   I don’t want to say a spoiler yet… but some pretty amazing stuff.   Ooooh its exciting and will change things.   In the mean time…  It’s end of summer!  Time for adventures in distant lands!!!   …or hang here and make some art first!!!!   Big big thanks to all the people and the universe who keeps giving me all this free stuff and places to park my bus that make this life possible and to you….you sexy human animal you! 

People say I should open my own GNC.  I like vitamins and herbs a lot.

Vegan kitchen.  Clean counters and tools with no e coli or salmonella.  No animal has ever been prepared here.

Reclaimed wood and plenty of juggle stuff and toys in this bus.

Radical cook books!!!

Taking a break from the summer heat to chill in the family size hammock

This blog post is late as usual. ..I stashed the bus at the beach.  I'm already out adventuring again.

"The world is still a paradise despite mankinds efforts"

     This is a post I made last January but never posted until now.  I'm back in the U.S. and it's easier to get on the computer now. 




     Every trip to Mexico that I take starts with some days on a bus.  This is a great time for me to reflect on the past season in the U.S., myself, and the lessons I have learned.  I also spent a lot of it listening to ¨The Power of Now¨ on my head phones.  Go get it now.  It´s great and is going to help you a lot.   http://www.eckharttolle.com/books/now/

     I got into Mexico city and took the crowded subway to a hostel that I love to stay at.  Right away I met rare and beautiful people from around the world.  Connections that don't happen so much in other settings.  Communication that only people who are really feeling life full on have.
     That´s really what I want to write about here.  I want to write about emotions and connection, but I will tell some cool travel story too so you know some of what I´m up to.  There are plenty of articles on the Internet about being sensitive or "oversensitive".  They are almost all written by women.  There is a lack of information from the male perspective on this for various reasons.  We are taught that it is weakness.  It is actually strength.  In fact, sensitive guys are the most bad ass guys there are.  We have to be.  "Bravery isn´t the absence of fear.  It´s having that fear and facing it and doing what you´re afraid of anyway."   That goes for all the other emotions.   You can´t numb one of them and keep others.   Your ability to feel bad and good are connected.  You can learn to have strong feelings and master them.   You have to have the balls to live with the volume turned up and face yourself and know that this is the only way that anyone ever really lives and learns.   ...and so many aren´t.   So make it easier on yourself and others.  Get brave and admit that you feel.  Master those feelings and live an extraordinary life.  You have a gift.  Emotions are information that not everyone is getting.  It took a long time to evolve this. 
     If you are a sensitive person then you need to find others like you.  Stay with them.   Go talk to the ones that aren´t like you and check it out.   They don´t even really understand emotions.  It´s like explaining color to a blind person, but really I think that people who don´t feel it strongly are more disabled than the deaf or blind.   Now I don´t mean being oversensitive to criticism or inability to laugh at yourself.  Those are narcissistic traits.  I´m talking more about compassion and empathy.
     Connection to ourselves and other living things and the natural world is all we really have in this life and if there is anything that is going to save us from ourselves, it might be this.  If you can learn to connect to something or someone then you won´t want to hurt, abuse, or take advantage of it.
     When you are around the non feeling people you will both be getting the feeling that the other just isn´t getting it, or that they are crazy. And of course you both think that way.  You are feeling things that are out of the scope of their perception. 
     I use to want to take people traveling with me.  So they could be amazed, touched, and changed by the fantastic and mysterious world we live in.  Then I found out that if they aren´t doing it already then there may be a good reason for it.  If I take someone to see the most beautiful sunset ever, one that some say opens a portal, and if they aren´t a sensitive person then we are seeing two different sunsets.  The portal won´t open for them.  They won´t know what the hell I´m talking about and would probably rather be at the resort then getting bit by mosquitoes and trekking through the bush to see something that is only breathtakingly beautiful to those who are capable of experiencing breath taking beauty.

     Oh, so back to my Mexico story.    I rushed around Mexico city for some days preparing for my trip.  I needed cloths and supplies.  There were tons of natives in the main square, dancing, drum playing, selling handcrafts.   I bought some cool sandals and got purified by a bruja.  That's a good way to start out the trip.  A good palm reading too.  Talked about love... they always do.  I got some new glasses to see what the hell sites I was looking at and a new phone with a camera as my camera broke already and then I was off to see some giant pyramids.   Wandering through the ruins of various civilizations past, in different places around the world is also another great moment of connection and reflection for me.    .... the phone I bought on the street didn´t save any of the photos.. It´s okay. They are all still in my head. 

We live on a blue ball.  We are floating around a red ball.  There is a white ball floating around us.

    
     In the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world I ran into my friend the Norwegian painter.  I randomly ran into him at the beach in Mexico various times, in Chiapas, and in Guatemala.   Weird.  Maybe fate.  We took the bus to Oaxaca with a German kid from Jamaica.  Partying it up and collaborating our ideas to change the world.  More on that later but it might be huge! 
     New years was amazing.  Letting off Thai style lanterns into the sky and partying with friends who feel like family.  I had a lot of drinks and got home very sandy.
      I have a great little house up on the hill from the beach.  I live there with my roommate and a cat named Lupita and an iguana named Godzilla.  I have been spending my days exercising, cooking with my roommate (one of the best guys ever.  Feels like we´re Fin and Jake) reading, drawing, practicing poi, juggling, and playing lots of paddle ball...  understanding myself and life and just taking in the beauty of it all.   It feels like love.