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Overview

  • 7 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Meditator/ Life Student/ wandering monk (of sorts)
  • Thousands of hours of meditation, learning to see all sit...
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About Me

It's difficult to put a label on an ever changing experience.

Currently I would say it appears that I'm a person on a journey. My predominant activity for the past 6 months has been to wander around, meet our beautiful planet, and connect with the fact that I literally AM this beautiful planet; a limb, an organelle of this little blue dot. If you spend some time with this you might come to the same conclusion. It's a tremendously great feeling to have a sense of what you Are. And I could say what you Are " a part of", but that would seem to imply, that you're somehow separate. And I mean to imply that you're not.

But so what? Not so much in this profile, but in life, I'm just a simple, down to earth thing. :0)

I like to tell stories, and relate to the deepest part of people. I don't watch tv, and I can't talk about a lot of mainstream stuff, because I simply don't care about it. But I like to laugh about how profoundly ridiculous and out of control the world is. It won 't be "controlled." So I don't try to control. Paradoxically, I'm really good at creating order out of chaos. Clearing space is one of my favorite things to do. (Especially in my own head)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've been traveling almost non-stop for a year. I use couchsurfing when it's my intention to stay in a place for a while. But 9 times out of 10 I meet the people I stay with outside of this website.

Interests

Going beyond interest, non dualism, advaita

  • cooking
  • tv
  • traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Living with a Wild God, Peace is Every Step, Tao te Ching, 10th of December, 100 years of solitude, power of now, the wisdom of no escape, a new earth, Animal Vegetable Miracle, Eat Pray Love, The Alchemist, Franny and Zooey, The Catcher in the Rye, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, The Chosen, Zen Mind Beginners Mind

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is a very ironic question for me. My basic intention is to totally go beyond 'me -ness' and allow it to be what it is. So the most amazing experiences happen spontaneously when I'm no longer there.

Teach, Learn, Share

When it comes right down to it,
I really believe you are wonderful
And that you deserve to marvel at yourself.

May you love yourself, truly
Appreciate your gifts,
And while honoring the things you wish you could change
remember that you have the perfect reasons to be who you are.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everywhere I go this is what I seem to do: I tell stories, and have conversations about life, philosophy, spirituality. I go on walks. I sit on benches.

I love to cook for people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, Netherlands Antilles

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United Kingdom, United States

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