Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sex + Resourceful Adult = Trade
Men want money & power.
Why?
Because they want to get laid. They want sex.
They cannot fight their biological urge, which is to leave offspring.
You can easily assume they tend to want to go over the edge on their
sexual drive --->
Go get females to have sex.
Women want security.
Why?
Because they want to save themselves and her offspring.
Yes, so they tend to go after men with money and power = *security*
What we have here is:
- Men want money and power for sex to leave offspring.
- Women want security for sex to save offspring.
*offspring* is the common word in both sexes.
We want our offspring=children to live
in happiness, in natural, clean and beautiful environment
that we have been enjoying somewhat irresponsibly,
like oil spill, earthquakes, flood and storms are just
symptoms of Mother Earth being clogged of
toxins that we humans excrete.
If we want our children and the future generations
to have the same happiness of
hiking in peaceful mountains,
swimming in a clean sea,
skiing in the real snow,
walking in a virgin forest,
looking at the golden sunset over the horizon
and looking at the morning sun rise above the horizon again,
we must upgrade our life.
In our new upgraded life, we:
---> Buy (consume) less and thus spend less money so we work less.
When you work less, you have more time for our family, friends and ourselves!
You may have less money to spend to buy stuff because you are not working as much.
But don't panic. You have more than you have in your hands, literally.
One of the things you do when you are low in cash supply = use different supply of resource:
Trade (barter) - Direct Exchange of Service/Goods with no middlemen(=hidden cost), like money.
If you cannot pay for things, say, a 2nd-hand bicycle for $100, try to see if you can do something for the bike owner (shop or person) in exchange for the bike. See if you have any skills, cleaning house, massage, making clothes, repairing things, running errands, babysitting, cooking, or helping with whatever for him/her/shop, or exchange some stuff you don't need anymore.
I know it may sound a bit strange first, but try it anyway. You got nothing to lose but having an opportunity to have what you want with no cash and end up helping someone and getting to know more people in the process.
The more middleman (money, retail shops, export/import companies, transportation for the stuff to the shop) you eliminate, the closer you are to the true cost of the stuff.
Not for everyone, I know. But if you are a bit on the shy edge, you can try to do the whole transaction online so you would have less exposure to direct rejection (it's only business..).
Okay, let's put it into practice:
1) Think of 3 skills that you can exchange for stuff.
2) Find some stuff you like to have on the internet at a local online classified.
3) Email the contact person and ask if they are open to bartering (use your service/time as money) opportunity.
That's it!
You'll start to figure out the way to write an email that catches people's attention and make you appear trustworthy of your professionalism that you say in your initial email offer.
And of course, you have to deliver your service in utmost professional manner like you are getting paid for it (and you are, directly as a payment of the bike!).
Good luck in your transaction!
Why?
Because they want to get laid. They want sex.
They cannot fight their biological urge, which is to leave offspring.
You can easily assume they tend to want to go over the edge on their
sexual drive --->
Go get females to have sex.
Women want security.
Why?
Because they want to save themselves and her offspring.
Yes, so they tend to go after men with money and power = *security*
What we have here is:
- Men want money and power for sex to leave offspring.
- Women want security for sex to save offspring.
*offspring* is the common word in both sexes.
We want our offspring=children to live
in happiness, in natural, clean and beautiful environment
that we have been enjoying somewhat irresponsibly,
like oil spill, earthquakes, flood and storms are just
symptoms of Mother Earth being clogged of
toxins that we humans excrete.
If we want our children and the future generations
to have the same happiness of
hiking in peaceful mountains,
swimming in a clean sea,
skiing in the real snow,
walking in a virgin forest,
looking at the golden sunset over the horizon
and looking at the morning sun rise above the horizon again,
we must upgrade our life.
In our new upgraded life, we:
---> Buy (consume) less and thus spend less money so we work less.
When you work less, you have more time for our family, friends and ourselves!
You may have less money to spend to buy stuff because you are not working as much.
But don't panic. You have more than you have in your hands, literally.
One of the things you do when you are low in cash supply = use different supply of resource:
Trade (barter) - Direct Exchange of Service/Goods with no middlemen(=hidden cost), like money.
If you cannot pay for things, say, a 2nd-hand bicycle for $100, try to see if you can do something for the bike owner (shop or person) in exchange for the bike. See if you have any skills, cleaning house, massage, making clothes, repairing things, running errands, babysitting, cooking, or helping with whatever for him/her/shop, or exchange some stuff you don't need anymore.
I know it may sound a bit strange first, but try it anyway. You got nothing to lose but having an opportunity to have what you want with no cash and end up helping someone and getting to know more people in the process.
The more middleman (money, retail shops, export/import companies, transportation for the stuff to the shop) you eliminate, the closer you are to the true cost of the stuff.
Not for everyone, I know. But if you are a bit on the shy edge, you can try to do the whole transaction online so you would have less exposure to direct rejection (it's only business..).
Okay, let's put it into practice:
1) Think of 3 skills that you can exchange for stuff.
2) Find some stuff you like to have on the internet at a local online classified.
3) Email the contact person and ask if they are open to bartering (use your service/time as money) opportunity.
That's it!
You'll start to figure out the way to write an email that catches people's attention and make you appear trustworthy of your professionalism that you say in your initial email offer.
And of course, you have to deliver your service in utmost professional manner like you are getting paid for it (and you are, directly as a payment of the bike!).
Good luck in your transaction!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
De-consume yourself ~ justa brain'stormin'
How to stop wasting resources of the planet?
Be a wiser consumer.
By:
Not buying new stuff as much as possible (amap, that is).
---> Try to shop at recycle/2nd hand/thrift shops
or use internet classified to find what you need
*used* or *pre-owned* =--= clothes, gadget, furniture, books, bikes, bags,,,anything!
>>>>>>>>>>
There are already so much/many things in the circulation. Let's make use of them by using them. No need for new stuff.
It's easy to look like $5000 when you pay that much for your clothes but
the art is to
look like $5000 when you are wearing $50.
Right.
That's an art, right?
Go treasure hunting at your local recycle/thrift/2nd hand stores--
In this way,
you spend less money so you can make less money that means you work less, if at all, like me.
^&^&^&********&^&^&^&
My average working hours/week since 030309 = 15 hours
Work = Massage, Japanese Translations, Housekeeping & Houseupgrading
My possession = everything fits in my backpack and a small bag with my laptop
The countries I stayed since...
(((( ))))-030309 = U.S.A.
030309-052309 = India
052409-082309 = Japan
082309-022410 = India
022409-052410 = Japan
052410- N o W = Amsterdam >>>>>
So consume less, I did, and work less, I did, as you see
my last year's statistical numbers that show how much I worked.
I decided to consume and possess less
Why? Because if we quit buying new stuff, the demand for new stuff will become less and the demand for recycled stuff will become more.
So? People will start using less money. That means slow in growth (consumption + production)and thus the economy slows down.
The current monetary-based economy is supported by the people who are in charge of this world, namely gigantic U.S.-based corporations.
*****Top 100 GDP (Gross Domestic Product = the numbers that show how affluent a nation/corporation is in relation to other nations, the data is gathered every year)
Top 100 GDP = 51 of them are the U.S.-based corporations, and their GDP's are bigger than the GDP of such countries as Norway, Greece, the Netherlands and many more.
You know what that means?
Corporations have more money than many countries in the world.
Money = Freedom =/= Power => "Because you are as free as your purchasing power" (I heard it from Roxanne Meadow's speech for the Venus Project)
They seem to use that as an advantage.
The U.S. corporations own most of the media source in the U.S., like television stations, cable companies, newspaper agencies, magazines, movie productions, book publications, and etc. etc. etc.
That means, they can form public's opinion according to their agenda by sharing only certain information with public to only benefits certain few that control the money.
So you are informed to buy certain color/design/length of clothes by the t.v. programs (wow! *programs*!, I wonder what that means to program people's mind??), through commercials or the *programs* themselves when they show characters/celebrities that wear certain clothes and use certain tools like cars and phones.
But Why Obey?
Be comfortable as you come. You are the only one can be you.
No one else can be YOU.
Be not afraid of being you.
If you wanna wear a shocking pink unitard while riding around in Berkeley on your unicycle,
Let it be, then.
Life's too short not to dance your dance.
Let's dance under the moonlight like jim morrison sang so right, and
so sexy.
Be a wiser consumer.
By:
Not buying new stuff as much as possible (amap, that is).
---> Try to shop at recycle/2nd hand/thrift shops
or use internet classified to find what you need
*used* or *pre-owned* =--= clothes, gadget, furniture, books, bikes, bags,,,anything!
>>>>>>>>>>
There are already so much/many things in the circulation. Let's make use of them by using them. No need for new stuff.
It's easy to look like $5000 when you pay that much for your clothes but
the art is to
look like $5000 when you are wearing $50.
Right.
That's an art, right?
Go treasure hunting at your local recycle/thrift/2nd hand stores--
In this way,
you spend less money so you can make less money that means you work less, if at all, like me.
^&^&^&********&^&^&^&
My average working hours/week since 030309 = 15 hours
Work = Massage, Japanese Translations, Housekeeping & Houseupgrading
My possession = everything fits in my backpack and a small bag with my laptop
The countries I stayed since...
(((( ))))-030309 = U.S.A.
030309-052309 = India
052409-082309 = Japan
082309-022410 = India
022409-052410 = Japan
052410- N o W = Amsterdam >>>>>
So consume less, I did, and work less, I did, as you see
my last year's statistical numbers that show how much I worked.
I decided to consume and possess less
Why? Because if we quit buying new stuff, the demand for new stuff will become less and the demand for recycled stuff will become more.
So? People will start using less money. That means slow in growth (consumption + production)and thus the economy slows down.
The current monetary-based economy is supported by the people who are in charge of this world, namely gigantic U.S.-based corporations.
*****Top 100 GDP (Gross Domestic Product = the numbers that show how affluent a nation/corporation is in relation to other nations, the data is gathered every year)
Top 100 GDP = 51 of them are the U.S.-based corporations, and their GDP's are bigger than the GDP of such countries as Norway, Greece, the Netherlands and many more.
You know what that means?
Corporations have more money than many countries in the world.
Money = Freedom =/= Power => "Because you are as free as your purchasing power" (I heard it from Roxanne Meadow's speech for the Venus Project)
They seem to use that as an advantage.
The U.S. corporations own most of the media source in the U.S., like television stations, cable companies, newspaper agencies, magazines, movie productions, book publications, and etc. etc. etc.
That means, they can form public's opinion according to their agenda by sharing only certain information with public to only benefits certain few that control the money.
So you are informed to buy certain color/design/length of clothes by the t.v. programs (wow! *programs*!, I wonder what that means to program people's mind??), through commercials or the *programs* themselves when they show characters/celebrities that wear certain clothes and use certain tools like cars and phones.
But Why Obey?
Be comfortable as you come. You are the only one can be you.
No one else can be YOU.
Be not afraid of being you.
If you wanna wear a shocking pink unitard while riding around in Berkeley on your unicycle,
Let it be, then.
Life's too short not to dance your dance.
Let's dance under the moonlight like jim morrison sang so right, and
so sexy.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
The Venus Project / The Zeitgeist Movement Japan Tour
~ Revolution Evolution Resolution ~
NOW
THE VENUS PROJECT/THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT
Japan Tour
(English lecture translated into Japanese by marina saga)
May 8, 2010, 2-5 pm TOKYO
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Dalai Lama & His Flip-Flop Meet Obama rama!
The choice of footwear of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the indisputable leader of Tibet, for his meeting with the U.S. President Mr. Obama rama on February 19, 2010.***********************
Since 1959, Tibet has been occupied by China. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan people under his guidance of non-violence have been fighting for basic human rights such as freedom of speech, movement, religion and preservation of their own culture despite the Chinese government's strong and often brutal oppression.
In his tireless effort to gain international support to improve the situation in Tibet, the Dalai Lama has been meeting with numerous world leaders traveling around the world.
The meeting with Obama happened about 10 days ago regardless of the firm and insistent opposition by the Chinese government because they believe the Dalai Lama is a "separatist."
Yes, that's an ill-fitting word for the Dalai Lama, who preach non-violence and compassion for all, even for the Chinese government which many Tibetan might consider to be their "enemy."
Not only the Dalai Lama, but also any Tibetan who wants to speak up for more independence from China so they can enjoy basic human rights, as most of us take it for granted, will be labeled as a "separatist" and persecuted.
Obama is the third U.S. president who had a meeting with the Dalai Lama. They met "privately" in the Map Room of the White House rather than the Oval Office which is usually used for more "public" meetings to avoid infuriating the already-steamed-up-like-a-good-dim sum Chinese government further.
When I saw the flip-flop that the Dalai Lama was sporting at the "private" meeting which happened in the midst of winter, I was puzzled and ecstatic in my shallow assumption about his "humanness" at the same time.
"Aha, he must be making a statement against the treatment of the meeting as "private" rather than "public" by wearing the casual flip-flop", I pondered.
No, the Ocean of Wisdom, the living reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara (the Deity of Compassion) does not operate on that level.
He was actually wearing flip-flop when meeting with George W. Bush who allowed to be filmed with the Dalai Lama in public for the first time as a U.S. President. Of course, that enraged China like a rocket that was backfired.
This is the first photo of G.W. that I actually admire, needless to say.
Anyway, the meaning of the flip-flop will not be known to me unless a kind stranger provide me with the info but I am just glad to come to witness the bright side of G.W. for once and all.My friend pointed out that this latest meeting of the U.S. President Obama with the Dalai Lama was nothing but a political show that was put up by the Administration to further infuriate the Chinese government for their own purpose which will not likely to be revealed to the mass anytime soon.
But even so, the mystery purpose of the flip-flop will be more worth exploring to me than getting caught up in the political war game between the U.S. and China.
Really, if someone knows what is with the flip-flop, please kindly point out to the source of the info. Thank you!
If you are interested in getting more educated about the Tibetan situation, check the websites below:
Central Tibetan Administration
Tibetan Youth Congress
Tibetan Women's Association
Friday, February 26, 2010
My Home Is Here & Everywhere On Mother Earth
(With nomad horses near the Himalaya in North India, Nov 2009)It's been about a year since I chose to become homeless.
No, I haven't had privilege of sleeping on the street yet thanks to so many people's kindness.
On 03/03/09 at the age of 37, I left my beloved & cozy San Francisco apartment to be a global resident of this Mother Earth
My First Stop: India.
Yes, it's such a choice of cliche for those who are wanting to be awaken.
(After organizing Ganga Cleaning Day with Swami Nagnath in Varanasi, April 2009)So I got a backpack full of necessary stuff to live reasonably comfortable plus my laptop and a camera to record & share what I experience on the road.
No, it's actually quite comfortable having the bare minimum stuff that
I can personally carry to sustain my life.
There's nothing I haven't used in the past 6 months in my bag and if there is,
I'd give it away Now.
Keeping it light is the name of the game on the road and in life as well.
Anything extra, I gotta carry on my back so no thanks.
Yes, I'm a big loser with a capital L on my forehead in this materialistic world where the sense of success tend to be measured against what you have.
No, I got no money, no stable job, no car, no house, no fancy clothes,
no, no, no, no, no blingin' stuff that represent that kind of worldly success.
But why homeless? Or you could use euphemisms like nomad or gypsy or
how about Dharma Bum?
(With my Tibetan monk friends in Dharamsala, Sep 2009)I chose to be homeless to be Me, who is not a representative of all the worldly material success carefully promoted by global corporations for their benefit only while putting the wellness of the people on the back burner like it's some left over food that can be left to rot.
Bombarded by commercial ad one after another every angle of our life like
TV, the Internet, billboards and so on, we are being deceived to believe
what you got is what you are.
Not so.
We are more than what we own materially: In fact, we are more than our stuff.
Do you really think the latest gadget you just purchased would be the thing
you'd be pondering on as you lie on your deathbed?
Really. Think about it.
You would more likely be thinking about who you loved, not what you loved.
Let us not become a sucker to the systematic brainwashing of
tyrannical global corporations to strip us of our humanity
to become a mere "consumer."
(Give it up for our Tibetan brothers & sisters in Dharamsala, the home of the Dalai Lama)That is what I refused so I chose to be a homeless traveler with
no price tag around my neck.
I refuse to wear what you want me to wear with your logo on it.
I refuse to hear what you want me to hear with your commercial in it.
And I refuse to bear witness to the global corporations'
cold and calculated exploitation of the poor in "developing" countries
in the name of maximizing profit and advancement.
Some say they envy my freedom.
Yes, I want to believe that we all have the freedom of movement and speech in this world of subtle oppression by those who control almost all
the limited resources on this planet.
It is very subtle indeed, and the rabbit hole gets deeper as you go down as many people are busy watching TV to kill time.
All the commercials on TV tell me how important I am so I should be buying this and that to make me feel more important.
But the fact of matter is this:
The world comes around and goes around without Me in it anyway.
I'm no important and this little Me, marina saga, is merely a witness to
this facade of the Grand Drama so called Life.
There's nowhere to go as a homeless traveler, actually.
(Yup. This cow's not going anywhere. She's just chillin' in Dharamsala)I'd rather just sit here & watch the world does its dance in and out of me without feeling too attached to its story.
Life's too short to think it's going to last forever for me and keep pretending there's always tomorrow to do what I want to do today.
Ultimately, I know that Business is as usual even after this little Me's gone.
So might as well be singing & dancing my own dance with my barefoot and
my pack on the back celebrating the beauty of Life itself.
And of course, let's not forget to be kind to all beings in Life so I can see them do their own dance that they came here for.
In love & gratitude,
Japan, 022710
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