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Posted on Dec 1st, 2007
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Zentertainment Talk Radio
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I took this yesterday morning. There was such a beautiful sunrise.
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Access: PublicMy Grandfather's Blessings
Posted on Dec 4th, 2007
by Zentertainment Talk Radio
Zentertainment Talk Radio
Hapy holidays to all my Zaadz friends
If you are looking for a few great gifts here are some ideas!
1. http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3
I am offering my holiday CD "Merry Christmas & Happy New York" at a bargain giveaway price! Buy one for $10 and get the second one FREE. This makes a great stocking stuffer! Merry Christmas & Happy New York is a collection of traditional carols I performed on my 1929 Steinway Grand. It is mellow and calming, perfect for late nights and intimate dinner parties.
2. Zen Alarm clocks from www.now-zen.com
This company makes the most amazing alarm clocks! You will wake up to the gentle sounds of chimes and a tibetan bowl. You can also hook these up to your doorbells and phone ringers! Another idea is to use them for "time outs" whether it be meditation, or for your kids! I love these clocks and I think you will too!
3. The organic skin care line from Jakare.com
I love every single one of their products. They use all organic natural chemical free ingredients and fresh batches are made up weekly. A few of my favorites are the french clay mask, the rose mask, and the body lotion! Yummmy.
4. Mary Janes Farm at www.Maryjanesfarm.com
I recently discovered this amazing woman who runs an organic farm in Idaho. She also puts out the most beautiful magazine, and on her site you can order back copies. The photography is stunning. She features articles on non toxic living and farm life, and makes any city girl want to dig in the dirt! Also check out her online store to stock up on organic cotton sheets, bath towels, to order her books, and more! Make sure to buy her Farm Girl budget mix and her organic chocolate bars- need I say more?
****************************************
Ok, now onto this week's show....
Rachel Naomi Remen was only 15 years old and already a freshman in college when she went into a coma for 6 months. She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and her life from that moment changed. She was told she would be dead at age forty, but here she is in her sixties going strong! She is a doctor, and one of the most soulful people I have had the pleasure of interviewing. I was so blessed by her amazing stories, and I think you will be too! Perhaps because of her own journey, she has a great deal of compassion and also leaves room for mystery. Rachel was recently honored along with Jon Kabat Zinn, Larry Dossey and Andrew Weil as being one of the pioneers of integrative medicine.
Her books are two of my ALL TIME favorites- My Grandfather's Blessing, and Kitchen Table Wisdom. They make GREAT holiday gifts.
You can hear this episode anytime of day or night on the web at Zentertainment Talk Radio. www.Zentertainment.org
I loved her story about the 3 stone cutters, and also about a man named Henry. Make sure to tune it and check this one out!
I have also included one of her articles below. Let me know what you think.
Peace,
Jo
Zentertainment Talk Radio
www.Zentertainment.org
***********************************************************************************
An article by Rachel Remen:
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might consider. Perhaps the real question is not how can I help? but how can I serve?
Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals. When you help you use your own strength to help those of lesser strength. If I'm attentive to what's going on inside of me when I'm helping, I find that I'm always helping someone who's not as strong as I am, who is needier than I am. People feel this inequality. When we help we may inadvertently take away from people more than we could ever give them; we may diminish their self-esteem, their sense of worth, integrity and wholeness. When I help I am very aware of my own strength. But we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all of our experiences. Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in others and the wholeness in life. The wholeness in you is the same as the wholeness in me. Service is a relationship between equals.
Helping incurs debt. When you help someone they owe you one. But serving, like healing, is mutual. There is no debt. I am as served as the person I am serving. When I help I have a feeling of satisfaction. When I serve I have a feeling of gratitude. These are very different things.
Serving is also different from fixing. When I fix a person I perceive them as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act. When I fix I do not see the wholeness in the other person or trust the integrity of the life in them. When I serve I see and trust that wholeness. It is what I am responding to and collaborating with.
There is distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgment. All judgment creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference. In fixing there is an inequality of expertise that can easily become a moral distance. We cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This is Mother Teresa's basic message. We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy.
If helping is an experience of strength, fixing is an experience of mastery and expertise. Service, on the other hand, is an experience of mystery, surrender, and awe. A fixer has the illusion of being causal. A server knows that he or she is being used and has a willingness to be used in the service of something greater, something essentially unknown. Fixing and helping are very personal; they are very particular, concrete, and specific. We fix and help many different things in our lifetimes, but when we serve we are always serving the same thing. Everyone who has ever served through the history of time serves the same thing. We are servers of the wholeness and mystery in life.
The bottom line, of course, is that we can fix without serving. And we can help without serving. And we can serve without fixing or helping. I think I would go so far as to say that fixing and helping may often be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. They may look similar if you're watching from the outside, but the inner experience is different. The outcome is often different, too.
Our service serves us as well as others. That which uses us strengthens us. Over time, fixing and helping are draining, depleting. Over time we burn out. Service is renewing. When we serve, our work itself will sustain us.
Service rests on the basic premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery which has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and to that purpose. Fundamentally, helping, fixing, and service are ways of seeing life. When you help you see life as weak, when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. From the perspective of service, we are all connected: All suffering is like my suffering and all joy is like my joy. The impulse to serve emerges naturally and inevitably from this way of seeing.
Lastly, fixing and helping are the basis of curing, but not of healing. In 40 years of chronic illness I have been helped by many people and fixed by a great many others who did not recognize my wholeness. All that fixing and helping left me wounded in some important and fundamental ways.
Only service heals.
If you are looking for a few great gifts here are some ideas!
1. http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3
I am offering my holiday CD "Merry Christmas & Happy New York" at a bargain giveaway price! Buy one for $10 and get the second one FREE. This makes a great stocking stuffer! Merry Christmas & Happy New York is a collection of traditional carols I performed on my 1929 Steinway Grand. It is mellow and calming, perfect for late nights and intimate dinner parties.
2. Zen Alarm clocks from www.now-zen.com
This company makes the most amazing alarm clocks! You will wake up to the gentle sounds of chimes and a tibetan bowl. You can also hook these up to your doorbells and phone ringers! Another idea is to use them for "time outs" whether it be meditation, or for your kids! I love these clocks and I think you will too!
3. The organic skin care line from Jakare.com
I love every single one of their products. They use all organic natural chemical free ingredients and fresh batches are made up weekly. A few of my favorites are the french clay mask, the rose mask, and the body lotion! Yummmy.
4. Mary Janes Farm at www.Maryjanesfarm.com
I recently discovered this amazing woman who runs an organic farm in Idaho. She also puts out the most beautiful magazine, and on her site you can order back copies. The photography is stunning. She features articles on non toxic living and farm life, and makes any city girl want to dig in the dirt! Also check out her online store to stock up on organic cotton sheets, bath towels, to order her books, and more! Make sure to buy her Farm Girl budget mix and her organic chocolate bars- need I say more?
****************************************
Ok, now onto this week's show....
Rachel Naomi Remen was only 15 years old and already a freshman in college when she went into a coma for 6 months. She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and her life from that moment changed. She was told she would be dead at age forty, but here she is in her sixties going strong! She is a doctor, and one of the most soulful people I have had the pleasure of interviewing. I was so blessed by her amazing stories, and I think you will be too! Perhaps because of her own journey, she has a great deal of compassion and also leaves room for mystery. Rachel was recently honored along with Jon Kabat Zinn, Larry Dossey and Andrew Weil as being one of the pioneers of integrative medicine.
Her books are two of my ALL TIME favorites- My Grandfather's Blessing, and Kitchen Table Wisdom. They make GREAT holiday gifts.
You can hear this episode anytime of day or night on the web at Zentertainment Talk Radio. www.Zentertainment.org
I loved her story about the 3 stone cutters, and also about a man named Henry. Make sure to tune it and check this one out!
I have also included one of her articles below. Let me know what you think.
Peace,
Jo
Zentertainment Talk Radio
www.Zentertainment.org
***********************************************************************************
An article by Rachel Remen:
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might consider. Perhaps the real question is not how can I help? but how can I serve?
Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals. When you help you use your own strength to help those of lesser strength. If I'm attentive to what's going on inside of me when I'm helping, I find that I'm always helping someone who's not as strong as I am, who is needier than I am. People feel this inequality. When we help we may inadvertently take away from people more than we could ever give them; we may diminish their self-esteem, their sense of worth, integrity and wholeness. When I help I am very aware of my own strength. But we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all of our experiences. Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in others and the wholeness in life. The wholeness in you is the same as the wholeness in me. Service is a relationship between equals.
Helping incurs debt. When you help someone they owe you one. But serving, like healing, is mutual. There is no debt. I am as served as the person I am serving. When I help I have a feeling of satisfaction. When I serve I have a feeling of gratitude. These are very different things.
Serving is also different from fixing. When I fix a person I perceive them as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act. When I fix I do not see the wholeness in the other person or trust the integrity of the life in them. When I serve I see and trust that wholeness. It is what I am responding to and collaborating with.
There is distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgment. All judgment creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference. In fixing there is an inequality of expertise that can easily become a moral distance. We cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This is Mother Teresa's basic message. We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy.
If helping is an experience of strength, fixing is an experience of mastery and expertise. Service, on the other hand, is an experience of mystery, surrender, and awe. A fixer has the illusion of being causal. A server knows that he or she is being used and has a willingness to be used in the service of something greater, something essentially unknown. Fixing and helping are very personal; they are very particular, concrete, and specific. We fix and help many different things in our lifetimes, but when we serve we are always serving the same thing. Everyone who has ever served through the history of time serves the same thing. We are servers of the wholeness and mystery in life.
The bottom line, of course, is that we can fix without serving. And we can help without serving. And we can serve without fixing or helping. I think I would go so far as to say that fixing and helping may often be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. They may look similar if you're watching from the outside, but the inner experience is different. The outcome is often different, too.
Our service serves us as well as others. That which uses us strengthens us. Over time, fixing and helping are draining, depleting. Over time we burn out. Service is renewing. When we serve, our work itself will sustain us.
Service rests on the basic premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery which has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and to that purpose. Fundamentally, helping, fixing, and service are ways of seeing life. When you help you see life as weak, when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. From the perspective of service, we are all connected: All suffering is like my suffering and all joy is like my joy. The impulse to serve emerges naturally and inevitably from this way of seeing.
Lastly, fixing and helping are the basis of curing, but not of healing. In 40 years of chronic illness I have been helped by many people and fixed by a great many others who did not recognize my wholeness. All that fixing and helping left me wounded in some important and fundamental ways.
Only service heals.
Don't drink from glasses in hotel rooms!
Posted on Dec 6th, 2007
by Zentertainment Talk Radio
Zentertainment Talk Radio
http://www.bestviral.com/video/6629/dont_ever_drink_from_hotel_glasses
Loneliness and other fun emotions
Posted on Dec 11th, 2007
by Zentertainment Talk Radio
Zentertainment Talk Radio
This is a copy of the newsletter I sent out yesterday to zentertainment talk radio subscribers.(You can sign up on the website for free at www.Zentertainment.org)
I was feeling lonely at the time I wrote it, and shared that. It is amazing how many letters I got back. I think I touched a nerve, even though people often do not admit to feeling lonely.
I no longer feel that emotion today. But it is one that comes and goes at times.
I had fun today. Shopped alot around Union Square, the village, also helped a friend out who needed me. I am sore from walk the walking. I'll probably go do an infrared sauna tomorrow! j ************************************************************************************************
"I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. -Taylor Caldwell
Hello!
I am writing this from the city right now, where I am spending the week. I love the west village. It is one of my favorite nyc neighborhoods, and that is where I am hanging my hat so to speak.
Marble Collegiate Church had a gorgeous holiday service on Sunday afternoon with candles, a live orchestra and the amazing choir. Many of you remember the wonderful conversation with Arthur Caliandro, the senior pastor of the church. We talked about homosexuality, God, the death of his son and more. You can still hear that episode #4 on the show page at or go to this direct link at: http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts/zentertainment4.mp3
I went to a great yoga class tonite at Integral Yoga around the corner. It was a very gentle restorative class for people with cancer and other chronic illnesses. It was a wonderful class. They have many styles of classes, all levels as well as workshops. For info on their programs, go to:
http://www.integralyogany.org/
Now I will take the daring risk of being more personal. You know what is interesting? I am actually feeling lonely tonite as I write this note to you all. Not just a little bit lonely, but a strong aching feeling so tangible I could pick it up. Isn't it odd to be lonely in a city full of so many people! Perhaps it is because I feel so tired. Or perhaps it is a human emotion that we all feel from time to time. I think the universe sometimes sends us amazing coincidences. Even the small ones are big.
I googled Christmas quotes, and the very FIRST one that popped up was this:
"I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses."
Now I would not have expected this to pop up under Christmas quotes, would you? But there it was. A note just for me. Maybe it is for you, too.
I am just amazed actually. Of all the Christmas quotes that could have popped up, this one was first? And it came when I needed it most. Is it a coincidence? I don't think so.
I have a great guest coming up in January who is going to be talking to us about dreams and coincidences....
I was going to put up a new show tomorrow, but I have decided to wait until the new year to air more shows. I will be airing the next episode of zentertainment talk radio in January, kicking off with Bruce Lipton, the author of THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF!
In the meantime, make sure to check out the latest episode with Rachel Naomi Remen. Her stories are SO INSPIRING. Truly. This was one of my favorite interviews ever. Here is a direct link to that show. Let me know what you think!
http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts/zentertainment30.mp3
Thank you for supporting me, my music, and Zentertainment Talk Radio this year. Thanks for your letters and notes. They mean alot to me!
Happy Holidays!
Peace, Jo Zentertainment Talk Radio www.Zentertainment.org
Need Gift ideas?
http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3 (Traditional Christmas Carols on my 1929 Steinway Grand- buy one and you will get one FREE. Have Santa put them in your stocking)!
http://www.amazon.com/My-Grandfathers-Blessings-Strength-Belonging/dp/1573228567 (Amazing book)
http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/ (Organic cotton sheets, great books and magazines, and organic food)!
www.Jakare.com (Their French Clay Mask is 50% off until December 31- I got a postcard regarding that)!
http://www.now-zen.com/ (Beautiful alarm clocks with TIbetan bowls)
http://www.chopracenterny.com/ (Amazing spa treatments, yoga classes and more)
http://www.1871house.com (Beautiful B&B in NYC)
http://www.healingsounds.com/ (Check out the CD Dolphin Dreams)
http://www.mpressrecords.com/
I was feeling lonely at the time I wrote it, and shared that. It is amazing how many letters I got back. I think I touched a nerve, even though people often do not admit to feeling lonely.
I no longer feel that emotion today. But it is one that comes and goes at times.
I had fun today. Shopped alot around Union Square, the village, also helped a friend out who needed me. I am sore from walk the walking. I'll probably go do an infrared sauna tomorrow! j ************************************************************************************************
"I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. -Taylor Caldwell
Hello!
I am writing this from the city right now, where I am spending the week. I love the west village. It is one of my favorite nyc neighborhoods, and that is where I am hanging my hat so to speak.
Marble Collegiate Church had a gorgeous holiday service on Sunday afternoon with candles, a live orchestra and the amazing choir. Many of you remember the wonderful conversation with Arthur Caliandro, the senior pastor of the church. We talked about homosexuality, God, the death of his son and more. You can still hear that episode #4 on the show page at or go to this direct link at: http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts/zentertainment4.mp3
I went to a great yoga class tonite at Integral Yoga around the corner. It was a very gentle restorative class for people with cancer and other chronic illnesses. It was a wonderful class. They have many styles of classes, all levels as well as workshops. For info on their programs, go to:
http://www.integralyogany.org/
Now I will take the daring risk of being more personal. You know what is interesting? I am actually feeling lonely tonite as I write this note to you all. Not just a little bit lonely, but a strong aching feeling so tangible I could pick it up. Isn't it odd to be lonely in a city full of so many people! Perhaps it is because I feel so tired. Or perhaps it is a human emotion that we all feel from time to time. I think the universe sometimes sends us amazing coincidences. Even the small ones are big.
I googled Christmas quotes, and the very FIRST one that popped up was this:
"I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses."
Now I would not have expected this to pop up under Christmas quotes, would you? But there it was. A note just for me. Maybe it is for you, too.
I am just amazed actually. Of all the Christmas quotes that could have popped up, this one was first? And it came when I needed it most. Is it a coincidence? I don't think so.
I have a great guest coming up in January who is going to be talking to us about dreams and coincidences....
I was going to put up a new show tomorrow, but I have decided to wait until the new year to air more shows. I will be airing the next episode of zentertainment talk radio in January, kicking off with Bruce Lipton, the author of THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF!
In the meantime, make sure to check out the latest episode with Rachel Naomi Remen. Her stories are SO INSPIRING. Truly. This was one of my favorite interviews ever. Here is a direct link to that show. Let me know what you think!
http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts/zentertainment30.mp3
Thank you for supporting me, my music, and Zentertainment Talk Radio this year. Thanks for your letters and notes. They mean alot to me!
Happy Holidays!
Peace, Jo Zentertainment Talk Radio www.Zentertainment.org
Need Gift ideas?
http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3 (Traditional Christmas Carols on my 1929 Steinway Grand- buy one and you will get one FREE. Have Santa put them in your stocking)!
http://www.amazon.com/My-Grandfathers-Blessings-Strength-Belonging/dp/1573228567 (Amazing book)
http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/ (Organic cotton sheets, great books and magazines, and organic food)!
www.Jakare.com (Their French Clay Mask is 50% off until December 31- I got a postcard regarding that)!
http://www.now-zen.com/ (Beautiful alarm clocks with TIbetan bowls)
http://www.chopracenterny.com/ (Amazing spa treatments, yoga classes and more)
http://www.1871house.com (Beautiful B&B in NYC)
http://www.healingsounds.com/ (Check out the CD Dolphin Dreams)
http://www.mpressrecords.com/
Happy Holidays
Posted on Dec 22nd, 2007
by Zentertainment Talk Radio
Zentertainment Talk Radio
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
-Anais Nin
If you happen to land upon this page, this is for you. I hope you enjoy some moments of beauty and peace in this holiday season. If you are facing any life challenge, may you know that you have the strength to stare it in the eye, to walk the path, to grow through it. It is not the easy times that shape us so much as it is the hardest times. There in that dark night the stars shine brightest. If you are in a dark night, may you know how amazing you truly are.
In my heart, there is always a sunrise....
Happy Holidays, Jo http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3
If you happen to land upon this page, this is for you. I hope you enjoy some moments of beauty and peace in this holiday season. If you are facing any life challenge, may you know that you have the strength to stare it in the eye, to walk the path, to grow through it. It is not the easy times that shape us so much as it is the hardest times. There in that dark night the stars shine brightest. If you are in a dark night, may you know how amazing you truly are.
In my heart, there is always a sunrise....
Happy Holidays, Jo http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidson3
