This episode I decided to share some of my favorite books I read or listened to in 2023. Here's a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Fiction: Tenth of December - George Saunders Liberation Day - George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman Philosophy: The Creative Act - Rick Rubin The Wi…

With the New Year upon us, many of us have embarked on the old tradition of setting New Years Resolutions. We do a little inventory on our lives and determine to change what we don’t like about ourselves, our behaviors or environment. We’ll try to ad that which is missing, or subtract that which is useless or harmful in one way or another. In gener…

Lo and behold, Santa delivered this episode directly to your device while you were sleeping! What a sneaky and jolly good fellow. Christmas itself has changed more than my opinions about it. As I get older, and now have a child of my own, my relationship to this holiday continues to change. https://www.anotherfinger.com Email: support@anotherfinger…

I couldn't decide what to title this episode so as not to give it all away. There were several good title contenders: Doobie Dilemma, Doobie Dunce, Kush Core, Cannabis Coma, Cannabis Creep, Cannabis Corpse, Moderate Mary, From Mary to Buddha, Taking the Bud out of Buddha etc. the list could go on and on. Ultimately, I decided on Cannabinoid Android…

The big news is revealed. Plus, how do you pull yourself out of a creative funk? What have I been doing since my last recording? Just the act of freely expressing oneself, even if only to oneself, is extremely liberating. If you stick with it until the steam subsides, you just might get to the root of the issue. Free month of Waking Up: https://dyn…

Recorded on August 3, 2023, the third anniversary of the podcast. This episode sat untouched for nearly 4 months before I edited it. This episode is a bit of a three year recap, some things I've noticed, learned, and would like to change. Why has it taken 3 and a half months to edit this episode? We'll talk about that in Episode 25. Stay tuned. Fre…

She is here! The light has emerged out of the darkness. All things are held in a state of balance. Picture the Chinese symbol of Yin Yang. Equal parts black and white, which chase one another in a circle infinitely. They coexist. They are intertwined. Not a single thing is exempt from this. There is a dark side to everything light, but there’s also…

These are my final words as a childless man. Our baby is due to be born this week and I am equally excited and nervous. I just want to do good by this human being. Also, some big news is revealed at the end. Stick around. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts…

Ep 20: J is now 20 weeks pregnant! We're halfway there… to the beginning. Plus, fiction. I've been reading it, and enjoying it! Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

Our choices have determined much of our life. Choose wisely. Happy Holidays! Give well, receive well. Be mindful of your Resolutions this year. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4tsโดย Another Finger

A brief review of my experience my first 7 day silent retreat with Refuge Recovery and Noah Levine. I encourage you to find a retreat and enjoy it. Go deep. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts

About to walk in to a week long silent retreat. This will be my first retreat of any kind. Excited to see what's on the other side. Also... there is some Big News in here, but you must listen to learn. Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4ts…

This is a call to use mindfulness as we vote this election cycle. There are ideas for healing our great division in the U.S. This is also a plea to treat others with kindness, love, and respect. If you're interested in finding common ground, and you'd like to have an open and honest discussion or you believe I am missing some information which you …

Vacations are interesting things. They are like little life microcosms. In most instances we attempt to vacate our regular lives, jobs and responsibilities. Yet we find pretty quickly that we cannot escape ourselves. Sometimes in an attempt to be free of stress for a short time, we end up creating a lot more of it through our planning and expectati…

A few years ago I was having a difficult time in my mind. My life on paper was great, but I was constantly being bombarded with thoughts of inadequacy, meaninglessness, and unimportance. I had heard the founder of Headspace, a meditation app, in a radio interview some months earlier and had downloaded the app upon his promise of making life a littl…

Don’t cheat yourself. Learn to enjoy every moment. Learn to be present in the now. If you can make these slight shifts in your mental attitudes you will regret nothing. You will have lived life to its fullest. The quality of your life will meet exactly the quality of your attention now. If you choose to rush through, that’s what you’ll get. If you …

I have been asked to record a few guided meditations from some of you who listen, so here is the first of them. This is a meditation from Noah Levine's Refuge Recovery World Services' (RRWS) program. I highly recommend the book; Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovery From Addiction to anyone struggling with addictive behaviors of any kind. Th…

We know little to nothing about all of what is going on around us at any given moment. It is natural for us to want to make sense of the world, just spend some time with a curious child and you’ll see this natural tendency. Our desire for knowledge may take us further from the Eternal Tao, that which cannot be named. Perhaps this is because we begi…

Meditation is itself a practice in doing not doing. While it is true that meditation is an action which we perform, what we are really doing is absolutely nothing. This action of non-action can be difficult for many people to accept, especially in the west, where we have a difficult time just sitting and doing nothing. Free month of Waking Up: http…

Free month of Waking Up: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/d5251a Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/another-finger/id1526096210 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cMYCxrGf3brRjQvj6SBvJ?si=Cle2fGlwQkqXr5GpXsN6Xg YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQfLN0PW4J8KkFr86y8lifA Alan Watts has an analogy to life, or of living li…

Today I wanted to point out some of the basic insights we might gain from meditation. Mainly the insight of impermanence. When we pay close enough attention, we can see that all things come and go, and we are not exempt from this truth. Our interests, our stuff, the weather, our feelings, even our knowledge and fears. Everything is subject to chang…

I ended the last episode with the famous quote of MLK “I choose Love, for Hate is too great a burden to bear.” I feel it is a good time, being Valentine’s Day and all, to explore this quote and talk about love, though somewhat indirectly. Love is a transforming, healing, and generous skill which has the power to transform our lives and the lives of…

With the passing of yet another great leader and teacher, one may ask: Where are the greats of today? Is it our inability to pay attention long enough to anything worthwhile that is keeping greatness from emerging? Put another way, have we, because of our current inattentive habits, forced the great minds and rhetoricians to stuff their wisdom insi…

At times we can be like children obsessing over the latest toy, forgetting every toy which has preceded it, forgetting that this toy will surely go the way of every other past toy; that is fun for a time, until it breaks, wears down, or more often than not, we lose interest and another toy enters our consciousness and promises to finally make us ha…

It is the time of year for giving. Let's give well. http://givewell.org http://plumvillage.app https://www.anotherfinger.com Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr @Sh4rkH4tsโดย Another Finger

This Thanksgiving, let's come together with love and save the planet through mindfulness! Dedicated to Lucius, Jezebel, Mowgli and all the animals you've ever loved more than anything in the world. https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/ https://www.anotherfinger.com Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Insta…

In this episode we talk about what it might mean to live happy in a mindful, selfless way. It is quite possible to be happy within yourself. You don't need things to be happy, in fact those things often obscure our happiness. https://www.anotherfinger.com Cover Art: Rory Jenkins Email: l3m0nsh4rk@gmail.com Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, and Tumb…

We truly have a choice as to where we apply our attention. We can use it to create a new, better reality for ourselves. At the moment we may be unconsciously using it to create unease and mental suffering, as we’ve seen. If you think that external factors are the cause of your internal pain, you are not entirely incorrect. It is not the thing itsel…

If it is true that we are unhappy when things don’t go as we expect them to go, then it makes sense to look at our expectations more closely. We should figure out what importance they have in our lives and see what role they play and whether or not they are necessary. If they do cause us to be unhappy, then we should be able to trace back their sou…

This is a podcast about taking mindful awareness off of the cushion and applying it to your daily life. We will be discussing many ideas in episodes to come but this introductory episode is simply an attempt to layout the framework through which all subsequent episodes will be viewed. The lens of mindful awareness. https://www.anotherfinger.com Sug…