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The Backdoor to Enlightenment

Posted on Apr 13th, 2008 by Zentertainment Talk Radio : Composer.Musician.Producer.Radio Zentertainment Talk Radio
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“For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it...for every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way...for every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door. "

Za Rinpoche & Ashley Nebelsieck, from the book "The Back Door to Enlightenment"

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Hey There,

What's going on in your corner of the world? 

I have been thinking about the topic of impermanence. 

Maybe that is because I have been going through extremely tough levels of the illness I have faced for a long time. 
I am in the process of moving into a new home.  My mother has been in the hospital with a severe case of food poisoning. 

Then the tide shifted. My symptoms eased up thanks to a new remedy. Amen Amen.

Mom came home from the hospital and is doing better. I am starting to get more comfortable with the move, although it is all still in progress.

Impermanence.

Right now I am staring out my window in the city watching the Staten Island Ferry coming in. The sun is setting.

This morning I took pictures of a beautiful sunrise in CT. 

Change.

My other news is that two days ago I was filmed to be in the Oprah 2008 Magazine video. I went up to the Hearst building in midtown, which is a beautiful building. The footage is being used by the the advertising and marketing departments.

Today I just finished recording several interviews for upcoming shows sponsored by Zentertainment Talk Radio and The Omega Institute. Stay tuned for an amazing episode featuring Robert Kennedy. In this upcoming episode you will get a chance to hear what is REALLY going on in the environment and in our White House. 

Stay tuned for my show featuring Zev Kedem, a Schindler Survivor surviving Adolf Hitler`s Nazi death camps. His story is so moving.

Stay tuned for an episode featuring Debbie Ford discussing the shadow, and what our dark sides can teach us.

Until then, check out the newest podcast featuring my conversation with  Za Rinpoche......

Za is a Tibetan Monk who grew up in a refugee camp in Southern India. He co-authored a book called THE BACK DOOR TO ENLIGHTENMENT. 

I was thinking more about what this title means to me personally.

Long ago, I was determined to walk through life and march right through the front door. I thought I had the front door figured out. For me, that front door focused on accomplishment and achievement. It was also about looking my best. The front door was that powerful "I can do anything, be anything, get anything I want" type of place. However, somewhere in that, there was also the need to impress myself... as if the more I accomplished, the more worthy I would be. 

Life these past few years has been taking me to this back door. At this point I feel like I need a backdoor to the backdoor!

When that front door has shut me out or been locked, I find an opening again and again so that I can keep saying YES to life. 
I have learned that the outer structures I so often rely on are impermanent. I am faced with this daily, and sometimes hourly. This certainly keep me on my toes!

The back door is humility. It is compassion for myself and then for others.  It is knowing how it feels to be in a dark night of the soul and yet believe in a sunrise. Maybe we can all help each other keep believing in that.

This week if you find the front door closed or even locked, be that one person that checks the back door!

This is a pre-recorded conversation between myself and Za Rinpoche. I would love to share the conversation with you. It's just a link away-

http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts/html

Peace,
Jo Davidson

Zentertainment Talk Radio
www.Zentertainment.org
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Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Posted on Apr 24th, 2008 by Zentertainment Talk Radio : Composer.Musician.Producer.Radio Zentertainment Talk Radio
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"Sinclair Network is the largest television network in our country. It is controlled by a former pornographer who requires all 75 of the local network stations to take a pledge that they will not report critically about this (Bush) president or the war in Iraq."
-RFK Jr.

"When we destroy nature we diminish ourselves. We impoverish our children. I don’t want my children to grow up in a world where there are no commercial fishermen on the Hudson, where it’s all Gordon Seafood and Unilever and 400 ton factory trawlers 100 miles offshore strip mining the ocean with no interface with humanity. 

And where there are no family farmers left in America. 

Where it’s all Smithfield and Cargill and Premium Standard farms raising animals in factories and treating their stock and their neighbors and their workers with unspeakable cruelty. 

And where we’ve lost touch with the seasons and the tides and the things that connect us to the 10,000 generations of human beings that were here before there were laptops....

And that connect us ultimately to God."

-RFK Jr.

 

 

"Environmental injury is deficit spending. It’s a way of loading the cost of our generation’s prosperity on to the backs of our children."

 

 

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Zentertainment Talk Radio and The Omega Institute (eomega.org) feature Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Hey everyone,

I hope you will share this important episode with all your friends and family! Because one part of my health condition has been mercury toxicity, I am passionate about educating others of the dangers of mercury. We also now hear about the connections between mercury in vaccines to autism and other health conditions. 

I believe that our connection to the environment and how we treat it is how we treat ourselves. I don't think it is any coincidence that we are seeing a rise in many illnesses that are appearing today. As a country, we cannot continue to allow the biggest polluters to be rewarded and protected all because they gave money to a politician. But that is exactly what is happening.

I learned alot from listening to Robert F Kennedy Jr speak. I became more informed. 

I do not think things are hopeless. We have the power to vote for politicians that will protect our environment and our health. We have the power not to invest money in companies that are polluting the world and making it more toxic.

This episode is filled with some very cool facts to know, and tons of inspiration!

Just click here and go to the "HEAR THE SHOW" page. You can listen anytime of day or night!

http://www.zentertainment.org

Have a great week,
Jo

Zentertainment Talk Radio
www.Zentertainment.org

This episode is sponsored by Mary Jane's Farm, Simple Solution for Everyday Organic
at www.MaryJanesFarm.com

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One out of every 4 children in NYC and in most urban areas, has asthma. The primary cause of asthma attacks is ozone particulates, and the principle source of those particulates in our atmosphere are 400 coal burning power plants that are burning coal illegally. It has been illegal for 18 years. They were supposed to have cleaned up. Many of them did. The Clinton administration was prosecuting the worst 52 of those plants criminally and civilly for violating the law. 

But this is an industry that donated 156 million dollars to President Bush's party since the 2000 cycle. And one of the first things that Bush did when he came into office was to order the Justice Department and EPA to drop all those lawsuits. The top enforcers at the EPA resigned their jobs in protest. These weren't democrats. These were people who had worked through the Reagan administration and the previous Bush administration. 

The top Justice attorney in charge of those cases said, "This has never happened before in American History where a presidential candidate accepts money from criminals under investigation and then awards those cases dropped after he achieves office."

Immediately after dropping those lawsuits, the White House went and abolished the New Source Rule which was the heart and soul, the central provision of the Clean Air Act. That rule is the rule that required those plants to clean up 17 years ago and it is the fundamental compromise that allowed the passage of the Clean Air Act.

If you go to EPA's website today, you will see that that decision alone, that single decision, kills 18,000 Americans every single year. Six times the number of people that were killed by the World Trade Center attack. This should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country every single day and yet you're not reading about it in the American press.

A couple of months ago EPA announced that in 19 states it is now unsafe to eat any freshwater fish in the state because of mercury contamination. We know where the mercury is coming from, those same coal burning power plants. In 48 states at least some of the fish are unsafe to eat. In fact, the only two states where all of the fish are still safe to eat are Alaska and Wyoming where republican controlled legislatures have refused to appropriate the money to test the fish. In all of the other states at least some, most or all of the fish are unsafe to eat.

-Robert F Kennedy, Jr.

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