Buddhadharma - Home PCI - Concursos Bubble trouble Every day I faced off against lackluster tresses, while two friends of mine couldn’t stop raving about their own glossy, sexy hair. They had recently stopped shampooing — just went cold turkey — and the results were marvelous. Both are decidedly un-crunchy, so I knew they weren’t making some hippieish statement about evil soap conglomerates or shampoo pollution in our waterways; this no-suds policy, I reasoned, must actually be good for hair. What did I have to lose? Seven months later, my hair has never looked better. The problem with shampoo is that most of it contains sodium lauryl or laureth sulfate as a foaming agent. Bahman Karimzadeh, a Los Angeles stylist and staunch anti-shampooist, advocates a more DIY approach to conditioning. Admittedly, when I first got off shampoo there was a funk factor. That’s when I contacted Karimzadeh, who counseled “shampooing” with conditioner once a week. And so here I am. After it dried, I admired the shine in the mirror, but something was off.
Self and the Way Buddhist Geeks - Download free podcast episodes by Personal Life Media on iTunes. One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence. Smitten Kitchen Self and the Way Urban Dharma - Buddhism in America The Sacrifices That Lead to Happiness “As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.” -Eckhart Tolle This weekend, a reader presented an interesting question about letting go of old beliefs and attitudes to make room for happiness and open up to a relationship. He suggested that this would require a lot of sacrifice on his part, and would leave him humbled and lost—as if he’s somehow “giving in” and losing touch with who he really is. He asked how he can reconcile the instinct to change with his resistance to becoming something he is not. I suspect a lot of us struggle with this. For a long time, I believed people were basically selfish, which made me feel constantly defensive. But the reality was that my defensiveness hurt me more than anything anyone else had ever done—and for far longer. We are not the beliefs that we, at one point, decided serve and protect us. Of course letting go of these will feel like giving in if we believe they define us. Photo by Aschaf