A comedian's way to meditation and money

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Kyle Cease (evolvingoutloud.com) via Christine Blosdale

 
Just go...
(a note from the Kyle Cease having this event)

I don’t know how to sell this event. There is no tactic. I can write up some bullet point system of amazing things that you will gain. Things like ending stage fright, anxiety, and so on. But it is so much cooler than any bullet points could ever spell out. It’s an experience. [He's selling a feelgood experience? Oh, Kyle!]

It’s tapping into a deeper you. It’s bringing out the effortless “you” that always existed [Hey, just like Mahaayana, Zenn, Shambala, and Hinduism say will happen!] Remember when you were a kid? [Yes, yes "I Remember"! Coolio was singing. Hey, Kyle, get to the flow, bro. Here we go.]

Remember how you just played? Remember how you didn’t care what anybody thought about you? How you could just create, imagine, and weirdly you were happy much more frequently? That place existed once, which means it is always available. It has been right under our nose and we overlook it and actually choose to stress out. We are trained to find the problems everywhere.

 

We are always fixing something that is not broken. We are constantly reliving stressful past things, and anticipating future things. When we are done with that, we need some addiction to get us into the moment.

Childhood? "Dead and Gone" (T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake)

Kids don’t have this. Kids have the moment, freedom, love, creativity, and play locked as their default setting. Guess what, you are still a kid. You might be a 50-year-old kid, but your natural state is your natural state. That state is worth everything. It’s worth more money, higher health, happier relationships, inner peace, and higher likeability. 

I'm evolving. I'm evolving out loud.

You just need to get away from the old habits. You just need to be taken away for a few days. [How 'bout one magical weekend?]. You just need to leap.[Just once?]

 

If right now, while reading this, you are analyzing if you should leap, check this out: You can always measure what you will lose; you can never measure what you will gain. [True that.]

 

So while you are anticipating the hotel costs, the babysitter, and the three days of being away, also anticipate the possibility of an entirely different, more fun, profitable, and much more effortless life. [I'm in!] It really is for anyone and everyone. Evolving never ends. Kyle Cease (more videos).

Evolving Out Loud. Live.  June 27-29, 2014 The Westin LAX  Los Angeles, California

Tickets on sale now!

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Coachella begins: Weekend 2, 2014 (video)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; YouTube/Coachella; Buzzfeed; 98.7; Randall Roberts (LA Times)

Coachella bikini-clad bhumi-devas go on display (Naomi Zeichner/buzzfeed.com)

Eat your hearts out as I do my best Miley acid... She's in the hospital OD'ing on antibiotics?

LA has a $10 alternative in Brokechella but, "Space is far out, man!" (alt987fm.com)

(Coachella) See highlights of Weekend 1. Fan photos. Watch VIDEO

  

Coachella is a one horse polo field in desert

It's a once-in-a-lifetime show like Woodstock '69, but it happens every year, twice. Never mind all that; it's Coac-hell-aaaaaaa! Get in the carpool, and shut up. Here we go again -- the lawn, the price gouging, the sun damage, and the wooooo!

Katy Perry in the audience

INDIO, California - As a giant impenetrable scrum of attendees waited for New Zealand singer Lorde, 17, to take the Outdoor stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, nearby, MGMT played the main stage, and the chorus of its song "The Youth" gusted in toward Lorde's crowd like a portent.
 
"The youth is starting to change," offered singer Andrew VanWyngarden as the band's psychedelic disco slow jam drifted in. "Are you starting to change? Are you, together?"

No one much smiles unless one holds up a camera or until the music whisks a concertgoer away for a moment in an overheated tent or a massive mosh pit (latimes.com).

When I was 17, Wknd 1

A few minutes later, as if conjured by MGMT's query, arrived Lorde. Dressed in white and seeming every bit a future figurehead, she took the stage just after the distant song had arrived at its ethereal ending mantra: "the youth… the youth… the youth." It felt like a clarion call.

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Locals left out when world comes to party
Josie Huang (KPCC/SCPR.org, April 18, 2014)

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Sobriety is one of the best things about Coachella Music and Arts Festival (buzzfeed.com)

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Happy Lu New Year 2014! (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; TetFestival.org ASIAN LUNAR NEW YEAR 2014

(Ttinova) 2014 Lu New Year festivities are exotic and integrating into America

 

Tet parade, Orange County (magnumasi.com)

Each year Americans of Vietnamese descent celebrate the coming lunar year with Tết Nguyên Đán, the most celebrated and significant holiday on the traditional lunar calendar, which also marks the beginning of spring.

The Fung Brothers and Priscilla Liang joke and rap about the 626 (predominantly Asian and Mexican San Gabriel Valley) in suburban L.A. to "Thriftshop" by Macklemore.

  

The Year of the Horse (buddhistedu.org)

The community is proud and honored to present annually the largest Tết Festival in the entire world, attracting over 100,000 patrons from throughout the country and abroad. Visitors are immersed with a vibrant array of traditional foods, live entertainment, festive games, and customs celebrating the new year. This year is the Year of the Horse (Năm Giáp Ngọ).

 

Enter the Horse and exit the Dragon, it's spring and a brand new year!

 

By now the country's largest China town is not in San Francisco or Downtown Los Angeles but in the San Gabriel Valley (area code 626) with its massive mainland Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Filipino, Latin American, and Indian communities.

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That Tet Festival was held between Feb. 8-10, the Year of the [NSA] Snake.

 

2014 (latetfest.com)

VNCSC Tet Festival 2014

A three-day festival organized by the Vietnamese Community of Southern California at Garden Grove Park starting January 31st 2014 and running until February 2nd. 

San Diego Tết Festival

This year there are 11 beautiful contestants each competing for the grand prize of $2,000 and the title of Miss Vietnam San Diego 2014! Come to the festival... 

2014 Tet Festival moves to OC Fairgrounds

The 2014 Tet Festival is NOT going to be in Garden Grove this year.

Tet Festival - Costa Mesa, California (Facebook)

Famous Tet festival heading to Orange County fairgrounds

Organizers of the largest Tet Festival in the U.S. -- an event long linked... Negotiations between the two sides for the 2014 celebration... 

Holidays and observances in Vietnam in 2014

Garden Grove's popular Tet festival is back on 

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2014 Tet Festival Event, L.A. Tet Festival

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