QaR
November 2008 
The Backdoor to Enlightenment
Posted on Apr 13th, 2008
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Zentertainment Talk Radio
Zentertainment Talk Radio
“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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