Category: musings

Charlie Sheen just killed his inner victim on live TV

At Command Z, we are huge fans of Charlie Sheen. But not in a juvenile “lol, famous man is silly” kind of way. We appreciate Charlie Sheen because he has repeatedly demonstrated transcendence in action. We even named two powerful exercises after him. Remember a few years ago, when Charlie “went off the rails” and…
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Radical Undoing in Finland (Guest Post by Mika)

Welcome to Mika Juntunen–longtime client and friend of Command Z. Mika hails from Finland, and was kind enough to send us a video with instructions and demonstrations of face stretching in Finnish! Plus, this awesome post explaining things below. Hello to all our Finnish friends and clients, and thanks to Mika! ————————————————————— Tämä blogi käsittelee…
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The Tao of Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers is my new hero. But I have to be honest: I don’t really know who he is. His TV show wasn’t shown in my country. I have no idea what it was like. And I’m not interested in finding out. But I stumbled across a video of him that totally astonished me. In…
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The Secret War Against Fun, and How to Go AWOL from it.

“You can’t just have fun all the time!” Really? And why the f*ck not? (censored for FB and iTunes purposes. If you feel you’re mature enough to see the whole word, please let both companies know.) Seriously. I used the word “f*ck” in that last sentence to express the absolutely stomach-twisting, face-mangling frustration I feel…
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Dance to the Music of Life

From Garrett: I’d like to personally welcome Richard Abbot to the Command Z blog. It’s quite rare to hear as refreshing and inspiring a voice as Richard’s echoing from the desert of the seeker. While my personal definition of ego differs from his, I’m confident after talking with him that the disparity is semantic rather…
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Hey… Leggo my Ego! (There’s nothing wrong with you.)

Remember those old commercials for Eggo Waffles? This one is particularly funny, even a little disturbing: I’m afraid to get into the whole Ego thing because words fail at this every time, and yet the emptiness of words hints at something you already know–something you can’t describe either. Somehow, the book The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism ended…
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