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Matt Bissonnette's new film explores the nature of drifting through music and nostalgia.
Across the Atlantic there's a strong tradition of road trip films, the bulk of the action based in or around the car and the endless dusty highway ahead. With its sprawling spaces, plethora of drivers and disproportionately large cars (just compare a random selection of cars used in Brussels with another random selection from Philadelphia) these works are an inherently American genre. Matt Bissonnette's latest feature film, Passenger Side follows in this long tradition, charting the epic journey of two estranged brothers across Los Angeles and its surrounding environs.
Bissonnette, whose previous films include Looking for Leonard (2002) and Who Loves the Sun (2006), has created a work based around his characters' floundering 30s. It is a niche of deadbeats, struggling hard to find meaning in their fractured existence, but essentially drifting about town and in and out of the lives of others. He describes his narrative as, "quite loose, and that got me away from worrying about 'the story', which seems to preoccupy a lot of movies these days; I believe Mike Figgis said that stories are killing dreams in movies, and that the best films are like dreams, and he might have a point." Taking place over a single day, Passenger Side charts the 37th birthday of Michael Brown, on the morning of which he is persuaded by his younger brother, Tobey, to drive him to a job interview and several errands around the city. Ostensibly unaware of the significance of the day, Tobey is a recovering drug addict who constantly riles his older brother with his laconic attitude to life. As the two brothers drive around Los Angeles it becomes clear to Michael that Tobey is not attending interviews and picking up dry cleaning, but is on the hunt for something of which he would not approve. As we later learn that Tobey is tracking down his drug-addicted ex-girlfriend, Michael's judgement takes a back seat as his endlessly impulsive brother persuades him that he has to help him in his search for the love of his life. Journeying through LA, the two characters take centre stage and the film revolves around their weird and wonderful musings on life, love and the meaning of it all. In its narrative structure, Passenger Side engages in a long tradition of existentialist discoveries of self and the American mid-life crisis. Travelling far and wide, but with little or no interaction with their surroundings, Michael and Tobey are self-contained and self-referential, failing even to recognise the desires and thought processes of their own siblings. It is only on the film's conclusion, when Tobey's ex-girlfriend is finally traced, that we learn the true meaning of Michael's intermittent answerphone messages throughout the film, and gain the full recognition of what he has to lose in Tobey's gain.
Bissonnette explains that the concept of the film was to mirror a Ulysses-style narrative, echoing Joyce's stream-of-consciousness in the immediacy of the two brothers' environment and substituting Leopold Bloom's epic journey around Dublin for the brothers' foray through Los Angeles. "When writing the script, I based it on what I could remember of Ulysses, the Irish and Greek versions, outsiders travelling in a sort of foreign land, experiencing life, sex, drugs, religion, whiskey, Cyclops and other stuff." In its wandering format, and with the essential role of the outsider, Ulysses can become a clear point of reference. But that work was pioneering for its form; the ultimate modern novel, Ulysses questioned the very nature of literature, and experimented with a myriad of forms and narrative devices, whereas Passenger Side consistently uses the well-loved device of road movie with a sunny, alternative and evocative soundtrack. Because of this, Los Angeles occasionally becomes the focal point of the film – it is almost a destructive love letter to the city – ribald, nostalgic and contemptuous in equal measure. As a Canadian living in the city, Bissonnette recognised its qualities in bewildering the outsider, similar to Bloom's interactions through the streets of Dublin. Furthermore Bissonnette argues: "Los Angeles seems like a pretty decent representative of contemporary America, and where she might be headed [and it] was planned around the automobile, so if you were going to make a film planned around a car, it seemed like a pretty good bet." The city lays itself bare with all its weird and wonderful characters, presenting opportunity after opportunity for the brothers to stumble across, rejoice in and inevitably move on, unchanged by the experience.
Only LA, with the use of a car, could give such a proviso of oddballs, and Tobey's earlier life as drug addict and social vagrant seems to make him gravitate naturally towards such people. As his brother disappears into a derelict car park, Michael is confronted with a desperate, possibly high, transvestite prostitute, who welcomes herself into the car, chatting familiarly with Michael, before shedding her clothes and masturbating her penis, repeatedly asking the perturbed spectator to watch, and charging him $40 at the end for the uncompleted climax of her own pleasure. On another occasion, Tobey and Michael visit the set of an amateur porn film, with each of its participants duly uninterested in the shenanigans on camera. Also picking up a horrendously intoxicated and obnoxious party girl, and two illegal workers, one of whom has just cut off his finger, the City of Angels becomes the city of others' demons, with its seedy, exploitative and drug-riddled edges plunged for new material again and again. What's interesting for such a range of extraordinary events, however, is how little they are actually exposed or explored. According to Bissonnette: "That comes back to my Ulysses shtick, and I understand both versions as concerning the protagonist's experience of the land they are travelling in, as opposed to an examination of the land in question … so the folks they run into do get a bit short shifted."
If the city was never intended as Passenger Side's focal point, it is a great supporting act in evoking the sepia-tinged nostalgia of California dreaming. Throughout the film there's an instamatic, retro feel to its cinematography. "I wanted the movie to have a somewhat trippy, dreamy feel, a bit of an Alice In Wonderland vibe if you will, and the lazy, hazy days of summer photography worked for that as well." Its misty tinge is coupled with vintage cinematic motifs such as green screen technology to create the impression of a moving landscape. Of course, in today's world of digital technology this method has become so well-known for its fictional, cinematic qualities that it no longer takes on the appearance of reality and instead creates a kind of third realm of self-consciously, post-modern devices. Bissonnette explains the economic precautions of such a technique: "I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and originally I was hoping to use rear projection, but it's just too expensive and complicated to mess with these days." Essentially the technique only adds to the film's quality and atmosphere, much to the chagrin of its leads Adam Scott and Joel Bissonnette, requiring them to sit in the car for 12-hour stretches with hot lights shining. This imaginative approach to filmmaking extends right across the work, even to the very core of production. For example, Passenger Side is Bissonnette's first film shot on video, which "allowed us to move very quickly, and keep the production loose." Initially sceptical (Bissonnette describes video film as "like sour milk"), the medium works with the nonchalant, scatter-brained feel of the film: "It was fun to get back to gun and run. The way a movie is made has a lot to do with what that movie becomes."
Coupled with this nostalgic, retrospective cinematography, Passenger Side is carried to an extent by its soundtrack. Taking songs from Leonard Cohen, Mac McCaughan and Ben Lee, the score is undeniably alternative. It summarises the manner in which Michael is stranded in the past, perpetually denying his old age and philosophising endlessly over nothing in particular, Bissonnette argues: "Since Adam's character Michael is a bit of a Luddite, I wanted the music to have a certain 'mired in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s vibe; conversely, there are worse musical periods to be mired in, like, for instance, now." Passenger Side was to an extent led by the music: "I had one or two songs in mind for specific sequences, but mostly I just knew I wanted to use a certain tune, or band, and that bit eventually found the right place to live in the film … it was all a bit of a Potpourri. That said, the big idea was to find the exact songs that would have been on the cassette that was lying on the floor in the car." It is a device that has been used in countless films before it – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Trainspotting, The Graduate and The Virgin Suicides came to be defined by their soundtracks. Alongside these, every Tarantino film has re-established this idea, so Passenger Side is in good company, but Bissonnette is careful to avoid overkill: "In general, I'm against loads of rock songs in movies, particularly when they are dropped like 'cool' sprinkles on a 'crappy' cupcake."
Aside from the music, Passenger Side is essentially character driven, with the dichotomy of Michael and Tobey's approaches and attitudes to life creating the tension that drives the narrative. An intellectual observer and writer throughout his life, Michael seems to envy his brother's spontaneous chaotic existence in spite of the pain it has brought to him and his family. "What we are trying for are very natural, grounded performances that can blow past any 'cliché' problems the character might have, because there aren't any new characters or stories, just fresh ways of attacking them." The narrative takes on a more personal element when it is acknowledged that Tobey is played by Bissonnette's brother Joel, and Adam Scott who plays Michael, has been a close friend for some years. For Bissonnettte, this contributed to an easy-running of the characterisation because he could already imagine how each actor would approach his character: "One of the real benefits of working with people you know is that you can take their character, or parts of it at least, and put them into a made-up narrative. I know Adam and Joel pretty well, and I think I can tune a script to their key. When we work, there is very little direction, which I chalk up to the fit being correct, and so few alterations are needed." In keeping with this discreet naturalistic characterisation, Tobey's drug addition is only touched upon, it's almost the elephant in the room that defines the tension between the two brothers, until, of course, the film's conclusion, when the real tension is revealed. This provides Michael and Tobey ample opportunity for brotherly jibes, each slightly more vicious than the last as they clearly grind each other's nerves throughout the day's events. But this slightly dry, macabre humour is as much a part of Bissonnette as of his work – on the role of comedy and humour in the film he states: "Both are totally hilarious, though I think comedy is a bit funnier, but that's just me playing favourites."
In spite of the drug addiction, the brotherly squabbles and the selection of social vagrants on its fringes, Passenger Side is a light-hearted, laid back exploration on the car and its tape deck – defining how the music and the surroundings can sustain a film of constant conversation and banter. Although both characters have interesting stories, and crosses to bear, each reveals very little through the running time. Like every passing eccentric in the film, it is just a snapshot into their existence, in the long tradition of road movies.
Passenger Side was showing in cinemas across the UK from 1 April 2011. www.passengersidemovie.com.
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Twin blasts inside a university campus in Syria's largest city on Tuesday set cars ablaze, blew the walls off dormitory rooms and left more than 80 people dead, anti-regime activists said.
What caused the blasts remained unclear.
Anti-regime activists trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime said his forces carried out two airstrikes. Syrian state media, for its part, blamed rebels fighting the Syrian government, saying they fired rockets that struck the campus.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city and a commercial capital, has been harshly contested since rebel forces, mostly from rural areas north of the city, pushed in and began clashing with government troops last summer.
Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed since in fighting and frequent shelling and airstrikes by government forces who seek to dislodge the rebels.
The competing narratives of the two blasts at the city's main university highlight the difficulty of confirming reports from inside Syria. The Syrian government bars most media from working in the country, making independent confirmation difficult, and both anti-regime activists and the Syria government sift the information they give the media in an effort to boost their cause.
Aleppo's university is in the city's northwest, a sector controlled by government forces, making it unclear why government jets would target it, as opposition activists claim.
Syria's state news agency blamed the attack on rebels, saying they fired two missiles at the university. It said the strike occurred on the first day of the mid-year exam period and killed students and people who were staying at the university after being displaced by violence elsewhere. The agency did not say how many people were killed and wounded.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited students and medical officials as saying that 83 people were killed in the blasts. Several of the more than 150 people injured were in critical condition, it said.
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Dr. Oz: Hair Restoration Scams.
Clinic Counselor: We guarantee our work 100%.
Dr. Oz: Are some of them duping you and trying to steal your money?
Clinic Doctor: you're going to be looking about 10 to 12 range.
Dr. Oz: We went undercover to find out.
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Dr. Oz: All season long. We have been taking on scammers' rigged systems and people out to get your money. The undercover investigation you're about to see is going to make you angry. Because we're exposing how some companies prey on women who feel shame and embarrassment about their hair loss. Investigative correspondent, Elisabeth Leamy is exposing hair restoration scams. And she's asking the question, "How far would you go to reverse your hair thinning?"
Elisabeth Leamy: If you're considering hair loss restoration, the first thing to keep in mind is "Buyer, Beware!" hair restoration is a booming business. Transplants are up 27% since 2012. And high-priced clinics offering foolproof results are popping up all over so are the horror stories. Miami, FL Frontal Hair Loss Treatment These are pictures of hair loss surgeries gone wrong, excessive bleeding, infection, scarring, and failure to actually restore hair. Any of these serious side effects are possible when unscrupulous or unskilled doctors and technicians attempt the procedure without sufficient training.
That lack of training is more common than you might think. Thanks to companies that peddle 3-day training seminars and even online courses to physicians eager to cash in on this lucrative procedure. I went undercover with Anne, who suffers from thinning hair visiting a hair restoration clinic with appalling online reviews.
Anne: This part– what I mean over here…
Clinic Counselor: Yeah.
Anne: …like my hairline…
Clinic Counselor: Mm-hmm.
Anne: …is not what it used to be.
Elisabeth Leamy: We wanted to know just what they're promising hopeful patients.
Anne: You're guaranteeing the success of my operation?
Clinic counselor: We guarantee our work 100%
Elisabeth Leamy: Then why are there so many unsatisfied patients complaining?
Dr. Oz: Elisabeth Leamy is joining us. So what surprised you the most? You give her applause because it's a very difficult thing to go undercover and get these folks to talk openly. So what surprised you the most about this experience?
Elisabeth Leamy: You know I went in thinking that hair restoration was something rich people did. But that waiting room we visited was absolutely hopping, jammed with ordinary looking, hard-working Americans who are somehow going to come up with the money to pay for this. Hoping to restore their hair and maybe they're self-esteem too.
Dr. Oz: And I– and I've seen it firsthand and I know how painful it is to think that your hair has been playing for the other team. So this is not shocking to me that it's crowded but what is shocking is what you found. Now listen, everybody, there are medications that do work for hair loss. We'll talk about them later in the show. But there's also a hair transplant surgery which we're going to focus on right now. And when it's done right, results are oh, impeccable! They look so natural.
As a doctor, I've seen that desperation in women's eyes. They'll do anything, you'll do anything frankly, so old men could get their hair back that they have when they were young. So joining us now is a top hair restoration surgeon, perhaps in the country, arguably. So, Dr. Matt Heubner.
Dr. Oz: Welcome to the show.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Thanks for having me.
Dr. Oz: So, you got a thousand or more of these procedures that…
Dr. Matt Heubner: Right.
Dr. Oz: …takes between 5 and 12 hours a lot…
Dr. Matt Heubner: Right.
Dr. Oz: …of effort.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Absolutely.
Dr. Oz: When you see these physicians conning these women, we'll about to show some footages could– actually riveting on this.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Yeah.
Dr. Oz: How does it affect you?
Dr. Matt Heubner: It makes me angry. I feel bad for the women who have to go through this. I mean it's such an emotionally charged thing for a woman to lose her hair. And now you all of these places that are offering cheap hair transplants and preying on that and, you know, it's very important to do your research correctly. You're more likely to get a bad hair transplant than a good one nowadays. And unfortunately, if you don't know how to do your research, you could be a prey to one of these scams.
Dr. Oz: So you get– if you're– it's 50/50 or worse to get a good procedure?
Dr, Matt Heubner: I don't know the exact percentage is. This is from me having patients come in that are dissatisfied with prior results elsewhere. So, you know, looking around, I feel sorry for the consumer that has no idea and doesn't know what to ask for.
Dr. Oz: So why do you call it the "Wild Wild West"? And most of the medicine is somehow regulated.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Correct. And I came from an emergency medicine background myself, so I understand that. But, hair transplant is not considered to be true surgery in the way that say, a breast augmentation would be or liposuction. And as such is not– it's not regulated with the same rules and regulations. There is no board certification in hair transplant. It's not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. And that's the problem.
Dr. Oz: All right, so how big a deal is this? How dangerous could it be if it's not done well?
Dr. Matt Heubner: Well, certainly there are a lot of people now going to other countries, Pakistan, Turkey, India to get cheaper hair transplants. Just last year, a 22-year old medical student died…
Dr. Oz: Oh.
Dr. Matt Heubner: …three days after a hair…
Dr. Oz: Oh.
Dr. Matt Heubner: …transplant from a huge infection.
Dr. Oz: Mmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: This was a big center. This is a– they have 17 centers in India for this, OK? So, it's very scary not only physically can it be dangerous, but what I see mostly in the US is the emotional scarring…
Dr. Oz: Right.
Dr. Matt Heubner: …that people, women…
Dr. Oz: Oh my God!
Dr. Matt Heubner: …especially are coming with.
Dr. Oz: So I'm looking at these pictures, I mean these are catastrophes.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Oz: I mean I don't– whether those are puncture holes they get to over the hair is in the top left…
Dr. Matt Heubner: Right.
Dr. Oz: …bottom left.
Dr. Matt Heubner: There are some different ways of doing hair transplants. In these foreign countries, the big push is something called FUE where they take little extractions individually from the back of the head rather than a strip. So, there's all kind of complications that can occur. And if someone's not trained the right way, it could be a disaster. My doctors that I trained, it takes at least nine months for them to become comfortable and where I feel comfortable of them putting out good work in representing our practice.
Dr. Oz: And how good does it look when it's done right?
Dr. Matt Heubner: Absolutely incredible! I have hundreds of patients that can attest to how it's changed their lives, giving them more confidence. Women that who can never wear their hair back in a ponytail are now going out publicly.
Dr. Oz: Here's an example. This woman in this is before and after.
Dr. Matt Heubner: That's Tanya, yeah. So, this is one of our patients that is a huge advocate for us with African-American hair. And it's important to know African-American hair types are much different than Caucasian. In the experience of the technicians, doctor, it's very important. It changed her life and she's– she's happy to talk about it, she has her own YouTube channel and everything.
Dr. Oz: And there's a gentleman who's got a pretty good result. So I– I have a friend actually recently had what I could not tell if he– anyway looks like before. So I know what good can be which is why it's so infuriating when I see bad. So…
Dr. Matt Heubner: Yes.
Dr. Oz: …we wanted to know what really is going on in this hair restoration scams. So Elisabeth Leamey bravely went undercover with one woman who is losing her hair to find out. What's going to happen next will shock you. Stick around.
Dr. Oz: Next, what really goes on inside these hair restoration clinics. Protect yourself from being scammed.
Dr. Oz: Today, we're revealing what's really going on inside a popular hair restoration clinics. Are some of them duping you and trying to steal your money? Investigative correspondent, Elisabeth Leamy went undercover to find out.
Elisabeth Leamy: Anne who's hair is thinning in the front has considered hair replacement. So she agreed to go undercover with us.
Anne: I would love to get my hair back the way it used to be, here, you know. But, I'm not sure if hair loss surgery is safe or effective.
Elisabeth Leamy: We did our homework reading online reviews about multiple hair restoration clinics. Then we got suited up with hidden camera gear and went for a visit to a well-known clinic. Right away, a surprise.
Clinic Counselor: Anne, the thing is I'm not a physician.
Elisabeth Leamy: The person who met with us initially was not a doctor. Even though hair restoration is a medical procedure. That made us wonder who would be doing the actual operation. In numerous reviews of multiple clinics, patients report crucial parts of hair restoration procedures being done by non-medical staffers instead of doctors.
And the doctors do the actual work?
Clinic Counselor: We have technicians that worked with the doctors. It's like heart surgery…
Anne: The doctor–
Clinic Counselor: …they do–
Anne: They are…
Clinic Counselor: All they do day in and day out is under the microscope separating grafts.
Elisabeth Leamy: Wow.
Clinic Counselor: Maybe one of them– [Laughter] India.
Elisabeth Leamy: Huh!
But online, reviewers complained that some technicians are far less skilled than others leaving patients with erratic results.
Is there a chance of side effects or risks or injuries of some sort?
Clinic Counselor: Scar.
Elisabeth Leamy: From the–
Clinic Counselor: She will have a scar back here. But you're never going to shave your head, are you?
Anne: I hope not.
Clinic Counselor: No.
Clinic Counselor: No, no, no, no.
Elisabeth Leamy: The representative we met with downplayed the risks.
Clinic Counselor: There's no long-term side effects or risks.
Elisabeth Leamy: But some patients have said, "I left bloodied" and described "Incredible amounts of pain during and after the surgery." Plus, "An extreme sensation of tightness and pulling of my scalp that doesn't go away."
Clinic Counselor: We'll be guarantee– yeah.
Anne: You're guaranteeing the success of my operation?
Clinic Counselor: We guarantee our work 100%
Anne: Damn.
Clinic Counselor: The– any grafts that do not survive or grow normally will be replaced at no charge unless you don't have sufficient donor hair then that would be a refund. And you be so
Anne: Oh, so you're saying you're not actually guaranteeing my result. But if they don't…
Clinic Counselor: Oh, no, no.
Anne: If it doesn't work–
Clinic Counselor: There are two to three patients a year that come back and aren't happy.
Elisabeth Leamy: Many reviewers say after all they went through, there was virtually no improvement in their hair, with comments like, "I practiced patience but the results never came" and "One year later, I am bald to a point in need a wig."
Clinic Counselor: here he is.
Elisabeth Leamy: Hello.
Clinic Doctor: Hi.
Anne: Hi.
Clinic Doctor: Pleased to meet you. what's your name?
Anne: Anne.
Clinic Doctor: Anne.
Elisabeth Leamy: But when Anne finally met the doctor, he declared her an excellent candidate for hair restoration.
Clinic Doctor: She's a very good candidate. Look at that curl– look what you have!
Clinic Counselor: Yeah
Elisabeth Leamy: And the estimated cost for the procedure?
Clinic Doctor: so you're going to be looking about 10k to 12k range.
Elisabeth Leamy: That's 10 to 12,000.00 dollars.
Anne: That's a lot for some hair.
Elisabeth Leamy: At that price, you have to use your head if you're thinking about restoring your hair.
Dr. Oz: Elisabeth Leamy and Anne are here.
Dr. Oz: Anne, if Elisabeth hasn't been with you, you think you would have paid 10 to 12,000.00 dollars to have this done?
Anne: If money was no object, I would have fallen for it, totally! Because the salesman, his pitch was flawless.
Dr. Oz: Mm-hmm.
Anne: And, it's– he had done the operation himself. He had the procedure done himself. So he showed me his before and after pictures and I would– you know, I would have been convinced. He started out the pricing in like a lower level. But then like, once the doctor came in, he– the price practically doubled.
Dr. Oz: Why?
Elisabeth Leamy: He said she's going to need two treatments.
Anne: Yeah, because I would need two.
Elisabeth Leamy: Suddenly the price was going up.
Anne: Yeah.
Dr. Oz: So, Elisabeth what brilliant depth to this investigation? When you actually saw the pitches and the proposals, what bothered you the most?
Elisabeth Leamy: It felt like a business instead of a doctor's office. I mean the first person we met what he's called the counselor. But come on, he was a salesman.
Anne: Totally.
Elisabeth Leamy: And the educational brochures, those were marketing brochures. I know what a marketing brochure looks like. And he even offered Anne a line of credit. Basically a credit card…
Anne: Mm-hmm.
Elisabeth Leamy: …to pay for the procedure. This was a business.
Dr. Oz: And like they're selling you a car, basically.
Anne: Yeah, pretty much.
Dr. Oz: Doctor, you witnessed this?
Dr. Matt Heubner: Yeah.
Dr. Oz: As an expert in the field, what did you think about that? What would you have told Anne if you're honest about this procedure?
Dr. Matt Heubner: Sure. So, couple things. One would be there was no– nobody brings up the idea about testing. So, just because you lost your hair doesn't mean that everyone's a candidate for a hair transplant. There are many medical diseases, things– thyroid condition, for example, hormone imbalances which can cause hair loss. There are also conditions which can have you lose your hair which don't respond well to a hair transplant.
Anne: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Inflammatory conditions that will require a biopsy before getting a transplant. And this has really lost a lot of the time. When people meet with the salesperson, that's the last thing on their mind because that doesn't allow them to sell you surgery.
Anne: Mmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: The second thing I would tell you is technicians that the doctor works with are just as important as the doctor. They are the ones cutting your grafts up and they are the ones placing it. So there are very different types of technicians and based on experience. So you can have a technician. And by the way, there's no school for technicians.
Anne: Mmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: This is something that's taught on the job.
Anne: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: So there's [0:12:31.6] [Crosstalk]
Dr. Oz: Don't be first.
Elisabeth Leamy: …on you.
Dr. Matt Heubner: It's scary. Again, Wild Wild West, it's true. So these are the important questions to ask. So, you know, I've seen patients come in from other places unsatisfied where one half of their head was great and the other half was completely different. It was almost like two different surgeries. And what's happened is you have an experienced technician and inexperienced technician on different sides of the head. So that's–
Dr. Oz: The big story here, it didn't have to happen to you Anne. Thank goodness you had Elisabeth with you. But everybody at home, I want you to have the right tools that can take control of your health, so we're laughing not crying. And you can control your wallet most effectively as well. So doctor, you– reveal some tools we can all use right now.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Sure. So, you know the first thing I would tell you is make sure you do your research, very, very important. Some people just go in and say, "Well, this a big company. I don't need to do the research."
Anne: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Make sure you research your doctor. Ask how many doctors are in the practice. A real transplant takes a doctor anywhere from 5 to 12 hours to do a surgery.
Dr. Oz: Mmm.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Miami, FL Hair Growth Surgery So, ask how many patients do you do a day? If the answer is any more than two, run away as fast as you can. You cannot be in that room for that long. So a lot of doctors, unfortunately, have the text doing all the work and they're in their office on the Internet or maybe even doing a plastic surgery case and not really involved.
Dr. Oz: all right. So, ask the questions, you always have to do that. Make sure the MD is doing the procedure otherwise you're going to have someone else, maybe the first time ever trying it out on your body.
Anne: Yes.
Dr. Oz: And then finally, if it's too cheap to be true, we shouldn't believe it.
Dr. Matt Heubner: Yeah, that's something my mom always said, "If it's too good to be true, don't believe it." Yes, so the average for someone that's good, that's reputable, an average surgery is going to be anywhere from $5,000.00 to $12,000.00 OK, depending on the doctor and how much work you need to have done. Just a little hairline work might be $5,000.00, a full head of hair, maybe $12,000. So, if anyone's offering you a surgery for $1500.00, a red flag should go up immediately.
You– sometimes people will go to these outside clinics outside of the country for low-cost hair surgeries. We don't even know if it's a real doctor doing the surgeries. Your likelihood of getting a surgery that's good goes down even more. And if you go into an office and you just don't have a gut feeling that something is– "Something's not right here. I just don't feel good about the doctor. I don't feel good about any" that's a good– you know, that's something you definitely should– a red flag should go up and you should run the other way.
Dr. Oz: So normally, I would call the FDA. I'd call the American Medical Association, even the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. I'd call somebody to get a response to the scams surrounding hair restoration, but I can't because, there is no governing body or Medical Society to reach out to. Completely unregulated field, hair restoration. So I think it is time these major organizations got involved so unscrupulous doctors can stop preying on vulnerable women and men. You guys deserve better.
Thank you for sharing your stories, for your own homework and for coming on the show. I know a lot of you are looking for inexpensive at-home solutions to restore your thinning hair, so I'm excited to reveal those options, they are next!
GUESTS: Elisabeth Leamy, Dr. Matt Huebner
HOST: Dr. Mehmet Oz "Dr. Oz"
SHOW: The Dr. Oz Show
EPISODE TITLE: Oz Investigates: Hair Restoration Scams: How Far Would You Go to Reverse Your Thinning Hair?


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MY fifties have overflowed with blessings; beloved friends, professional achievements, and global adventures. Who ever thought this scaredy-cat from Arlington, Virginia would swim with whale sharks off Cancun? Or photograph wild polar bears in Churchill Canada? Or chase penguins up glacier trails in Antarctica? My favorite travel experience of this decade: receiving a sacred blessing from a wise Mayan Shaman in a Mexican village, then meeting him again the next year on the same street in the same village, and receiving a second blessing.
Is that luck or divine intervention?
Anyway, as time hurtles forward I sadly waved goodbye to my fifties and hello to sixty. What I wanted for my birthday was a romantic evening at Charleston Place in Charleston, South Carolina and dinner out with my fiancée Kenny Baker and close friends.
Kenny and I waltzed into the elegant lobby. "Welcome and Happy Birthday," smiled a beautiful receptionist named Colleen.
"You two are in 4G, a beautiful suite near our spa and indoor pool. We invite you to enjoy cocktails, appetizers, and breakfast tomorrow morning at our club lounge."
Is that luck or divine intervention?
Suite 4G was awash in soothing buttercream yellow, with a comfy couch, dining room table, antique writing desk, and an inviting king bed. Classic southern elegance, with framed botanical prints, sunflower festooned drapes, and a marble bath with shower and soaking tub, plus fragrant lotions and soaps from Gilchrist & Soames in London. Out our window was Charleston's elegant skyline and hundreds of clothing boutiques, plus gift and home décor shops.
The elevator whisked us to the 8th floor, where guests were enjoying happy hour cocktails, sushi, asparagus, spanakopita, and she crab gumbo. After sipping and grazing away our exhaustion, Ken suggested a pool dip before dinner.
Serious mistake. After splashing and laughing in the saltwater pool for an hour, gazing at Charleston's rosy skyline from the outdoor terrace, then soaking in the hot tub, we padded back to our room in thick terry robes, so relaxed we could barely open the door.
The thoughtful hotel staff had delivered a bottle of Segura Viudas Sparkling wine and a decadent chocolate cake emblazoned with Happy Birthday Sharon. Charleston's evening air wafted in, perfuming our heavenly room. Our friends called to cancel dinner out, promising to meet us the next day at the hotel for lunch. We kept on drinking, talking, and laughing. Never went to dinner. Never left our room. Perfect evening.
Touring Charleston
There's so much to see in historic Charleston, you need at least a week.
Settled in 1680 by English colonists on land granted by King Charles, Charles Towne became a flourishing seaport. By the early 1800's, it was one of the most fashionable cities in the new world, second in importance only to New York. Giant clipper ships laden with exotic cargo from China, Europe, the West Indies and Barbados regularly visited Charleston, exchanging foreign wares for indigo, prized Carolina rice and cotton.
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We arrived at 12:30 for our romantic lunch. Two dozen of my favourite Charleston friends and family were there to say Surprise! and sing Happy Birthday. My darling Ken had organised a wonderful party and what better place than Charleston Place Hotel, where the staff makes a huge effort to insure your happiness.
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WordPress is arguably the best Web publishing platform in existence. Since it was first rolled out in 2003, the free and open-source blogging platform/content management system has won the hearts of millions of Web publishers. It's currently used in 19 percent of Alexa's top 1 million websites, and handles 22 percent of all new websites created in 2012.
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Global Gallery
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Designed by the folks who made WordPress, bbPress is a super lightweight forum plugin that's lean, but powerful. Simple to install and even easier to use, bbPress lets users assign admins, moderate forum posts, and more.
Social Slider
Want to give users a simple way to share content on their favorite social network? Give the Social Slider plugin a look. It's got tabs for over 35 of the most popular social sites, and is completely customizable.
W3 Total Cache
Studies have shown that page performance plays a big role in how long people stay on your site. To make sure that your site loads quickly, give W3 Total Cache a try. The plugin boosts load times and improves user experience via caching.
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This one is remarkably similar to uPricing, but it has a slightly different admin interface.
Just about every card-carrying website on the net has buttons that allow users to connect with them via social media, and there are a number of plugins that'll give these buttons some flair. SocialPop is easily one of the best in this category. It currently supports 27 different social networking sites, and will make buttons pop up when hovered over with your cursor.
Sexy Bookmarks
SexyBookmarks is a lot like SocialPop, and looks incredibly similar. Made by Shareaholic, the plugin also offers a Classic Bookmarks plugin, as well as a plugin called Sassy Bookmarks that's optimized for mobile devices.
Foobar puts a simple and easy-to-customize bar at the top any page you choose, giving you a clean, minimally intrusive way to post notifications on your site. It can handle anything from custom HTML to social links and RSS.
Hello Bar
Similar to Foobar, but packing a different look to it, Hello Bar displays a customizable bar at the top of any page you choose. The plugin helps you drive traffic to specific areas of your site, promote certain posts, sell products, get email signups, or display links to social media sites.
WP Touch
This nifty little plugin will quickly create a version of your site that's optimized for mobile access without modifying a single bit of code. It comes with all the requisite customization options you'd expect and gives users the option of viewing your pages in either the mobile or full-size format.
upPrev is a fantastic tool for keeping readers on your site. When users reach the end of an article or post, a pop-up will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen and provide links to similar stories for them to read.
The Slide
Yeah, this one is essentially the same thing as upPrev, but looks a bit different. Want to see what it looks like? Scroll to the bottom of this page and you'll get an idea.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans barely spent more last month at retail businesses and restaurants after higher taxes cut their paychecks. The small increase suggests consumer spending may be weak in the January-March quarter, which could hold back economic growth.
Retail sales ticked up 0.1 percent in January from December, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That follows a 0.5 percent increase in December and is the smallest in three months.
Sales fell at auto dealerships, clothing stores and furniture stores. The declines came after big gains in each of those categories in December. Sales rose last month at home-improvement stores, gas stations and online retailers.
So-called core retail sales, which exclude autos, building materials, and gas stations, ticked up 0.2 percent. That's down from 0.6 percent in December. Economists pay close attention to core sales because they strip out the most volatile categories.
The retail sales report is the government's first look at consumer spending, which drives 70 percent of economic activity.
Nearly all working Americans are taking home less pay this year. Congress and the White House allowed a temporary 2 percentage point cut in Social Security taxes to expire last month. That means a person earning $50,000 a year will have about $1,000 less to spend in 2013. A household with two high-paid workers will have up to $4,500 less.
Economists were mildly encouraged that spending rose at all after the tax increases took effect. Many expect that spending may pick up later this year as hiring improves.
"No surprise that consumer spending eased a bit in the New Year," Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note to clients. "Look for spending to pick up as the year progresses, supported by stronger job growth."
Top-earning households are also paying higher income taxes this year. President Barack Obama and lawmakers agreed to prevent income taxes from rising on most Americans. But their deal to avoid the fiscal cliff allowed income taxes to rise on individuals earning $400,000 a year and couples earning $450,000 a year.
Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, said the higher taxes could weigh on spending for up to six months.
"Even so, it is nice to see that consumers didn't stumble out of the blocks," he said in a note to clients.
The Social Security tax increase was a key reason the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence plummeted last month to its lowest level in 14 months. That survey was taken early in the month, when most Americans were discovering their smaller paychecks.
But a separate survey taken later in the month by the University of Michigan suggested consumers weren't quite as dismayed, possibly after absorbing the impact of the tax increase.
Better hiring and rising prices for stocks and homes may boost consumer confidence and spending in the coming months.
Employers added an average of 200,000 jobs a month in the final three months of last year, the Labor Department said earlier this month. That was up from just 150,000 in the preceding three months.
And some retail store chains reported healthy sales gains last month, suggesting that at least some consumers kept shopping even after the tax cut kicked in. Some of the gains likely reflected healthy holiday discounts.
Overall, consumer spending grew at a faster pace in the final three months of last year than in the preceding quarter. Still, steep cuts in defense spending and slower company restocking weakened the economy.
The government said last month that the economy contracted in the October-December quarter at an annual rate of 0.1 percent.
But economists expect that figure will be revised in the coming months to show a small increase, after more data about last quarter has been reported. Economists at Barclays Capital estimate the economy expanded 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter.
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A question I ask myself often, and yet I don't always have an answer. I am curious as to how others would answer this question. Why do you practice Zen?
A question I ask myself often, and yet I don't always have an answer. I am curious as to how others would answer this question. Why do you practice Zen?
Last edited by Joyo; 09-08-2013 at 10:43 PM.
Learning to live. Learning to die.
明 Seimyō (Christhatischris)
Life is better because I practice and I guess that is why I continue to do so. Not always better for me but somewhat better for those that must be around me.
I practice to quiet the mind and yet I practice to hear as well. I practice to get a grip on how an insignificant creature such as myself is interconnected with everything in this vast universe. I practice to rest for a bit and yet also to strengthen my resolve to live with everything that exists. I practice because I don't much care for the person I was before I started to practice but of course I am still the same as I was before I started my practice.
Such a simple question but no right nor wrong an answer that I can give to explain to someone why I do now what I must do.
I am sorry that I failed to give you an answer to your question but I continue to practice.
Blessed are the flexible, for they never get bent out of shape." Author Unknown
Heishu, no need to apologize. Your answer is also a main reason as to why I practice. In fact, my answer is the same as everyone who has posted here so far. Sometimes others can just write it down better than perhaps I can.
I started practice largely to escape suffering. That's not all or maybe even most of the reason I practice now, but I'm not sure what the reason is, really. In a way, I find that not knowing very freeing.
After avoiding practicing Zen for a couple years, after a while I thought I should get back to the practice; things seemed better somehow then, though I wasn't really sure why. It's not like I wasn't having fun being very un-Zen all this summer long! But I started lurking around on Treeleaf just the same, and started wondering if I'd ever take Jukai there or anywhere, and what difference it might actually make to me.
It was in that state of mind that I went away for a week with some family and friends, and like anytime you spend some time together, some things about my most loved ones started to annoy me. And of course they started to annoy each other and I was annoying them. Without getting into specifics on everybody's personal faults, I was thinking about just that (everyone's personal faults) around the same time I was thinking about getting back into practice, and how I'd need these people's help if I were to actually do Jukai this year and if I should bother to try, I just fell quiet and watched the people around me as they all tried to struggle through the suffering they were feeling. That's when I knew I had to do Jukai for them. Yes, for me, but for them. A less suffering me, a less caught-up me, a less chained me is much better suited to help them, and to remember that the annoyances that prick at my ego stem not from the people I love hating me, but rather the suffering in them is just doing what suffering does, reaching out to make more suffering.
Now many of my loved ones are helping me in small and large ways with all the logistics of Ango, and Jukai. And they'll see me do it. And that in itself is something, a small positive direction for us all. So, it's all very daunting for me still, but that's why I'm doing it. Not for them entirely! But because suffering gets suffering, and there just is really no other way to be once you get that. Though for some reason I still don't get, it all still scares the pants off of me.
Thanks for the excuse to write about this, I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Good to let it out. I hope what I actually wrote makes some sort of sense.
Words have trouble capturing why I practice, and every year I practice it gets harder. If pressed on the issue, I guess it's mostly because I like obscure Japanese rituals and a love for that one darker spot on my wall.
If I'm already enlightened why the hell is this so hard?
I have looked for sometime for something that most closely matches with me. I went through a very rough time the last few years, and things still are not wonderful, but through reading about and studying Zen I found a way to process all that into the wonderful phase of my life that it was/is. Now that I am practicing regularly, I find that I like myself better, that it is helping me be the person I want to be and I really do feel it is helping me find me. Other people are beginning to notice too, though I don't go around proselytizing, people are responding to me differently. I feel more centered, grounded, real and whole than I have in a long time.
Ask me again in ten years.
PS: Based on today's performance Zen does not help you golf better, but I accept my lack of skill more gracefully
Last edited by Ishin; 09-09-2013 at 03:07 AM.
Zen slowly appeared in front of me after years of physical and metaphysical meanderings. I wasn't necessarily unhappy with things in my life and thinking, but through readings, experiences, and lessons from wonderful people, I plopped down in Zen. It has felt less like a choice than a natural evolution. And now I practice because I feel it is what I need to do in this moment.
To live a life without whys and to let life live me.
I did not choose Zen. It has nothing to do with me or my choices. Zen practices me. Really.
It's like when I'm driving the car. I don't think about each move. The car drives me. The road makes the decisions.
But there is room for improvement in my driving and I had to learn to drive before I got behind the wheel. Still am learning ... ;-)
Why? Why-not?
"Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"
I have so enjoyed reading all of your responses. I could probably write a 10-pg essay on this topic, but it boils down to this--I practice Zen for myself, I practice Zen for all beings, because we are all connected. It has only been through Zen that I have found my true home, my true self (or no-self)
I practice Zen because I haven't found or thought of anything else that makes sense.
I took an art class once in high school. I just could NOT draw that damn bicycle. Teacher told me, "Stop looking at the page. Look at the damn bicycle."
I have practiced it since I was a kid, even if I didn't know there was a name for it.
I practice because it feels natural
Hondō Kyōnin
奔道 協忍
I also feel this Kyonin - and even though I may sometimes wander away from my practice, think I've lost it, get frustrated because it doesn't always deliver in an obvious way, it helps me to be both at peace within myself and a better person out in the world. No matter what - this practice always feel like a true home.
Thank you all for your practice
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To yield to life and be happy. Gassho.
Heisoku 平 息
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)
Initially, I sat to re-learn what I had forgotten since I was 3 yrs old. Then after some time I realized a gathering faith that it made sense to live this way. A practice that benefits all beings, a practice that can change people's way of percieving reality.
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gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
If we are to regain our original mind, the mind that is free of defilement, delusion, greed, hatred and anger, then we must understand the source of those feelings, which are largely cultural and aquired. Thus, they are learned behavior. And learned behavior can always be unlearned. I sit to unlearn.
"First you have to give up." Tyler Durden
For me, it started as initially as a curiosity. A lot of folks would say that something I said sounded very " Zen". So , out of curiosity, I began to look across the internet and found Treeleaf. After that, I was almost immediately hooked. Something about Zen practice just strikes an inner chord. Something about it just resonates with me in an inexplicable way. So I sit, sometimes a lot , sometimes a little. Read a book here and there. I haven't found any reason to stop practicing so I haven't stopped. I haven't actually gone a day without some phrase or precept or bit of philosophy entering my mind at some point. I'm just along for the ride, while still wondering " What is all this REALLY about?"
Dave _/\_
Dancing between stillness and motion I find peace.
To flourish through fading away
"...the bell's melodious sound continues to resonate as it echoes, endlessly before and after. "
Eihei Dogen
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
I think I started so I could be cool. Different. It made more sense to me than Christianity, particularly since I came from a Jewish background. It gave me some comfort over the fear of dying.
I just sit now days. It feels natural, the way things are supposed to be.
Gassho, John
I guess I practice so I feel more connected. I find that it helps me ride the waves of my emotions rather than drown in them. I practice because it helps me to look beyond my own tunnel vision and nourishes something deep within me that no other way could ever fill.
To get rid of everything, all the illusions of getting or having something more than this.
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無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...
I sincerely do it now, because I want to realize what I've read about for myself.... not in a selfish way. I sincerely want to realize Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness.
I sit to drop/let go of self that conceptualizes, speculates, fears and suffers. But it seems more about realizing that there no constructed self that sees/hears/smells/tastes/touches/conceptualizes separate, apart and alone from the ground upon which to stand, air to breath, and water to quench. Life is not obstructed and all phenomenon "fit" , yet it takes the concept of obstruction to learn of it's immateriality.
I practice to become genuine human.
Le secret consiste donc seulement à dire "OUI" et à se jeter dans le vide. Dès lors, il n'y a plus de problème. Il s'agit d'être soi-même dans l'instant présent, toujours soi-même, sans s'accrocher à son vieux moi.Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Some of what folks have written in this lovely Thread reminds me of the tile polishing Koan ... be careful ...
Thereupon, Nangaku took a roof tile and began rubbing it on a rock near Baso's hut.
Baso, upon seeing this, asked him, "Reverend monk, what are you doing?"
Nangaku replied, "I am polishing a roof tile."
Baso then asked, "What are you going to make by polishing a roof tile?"
Nangaku replied, "I am polishing it to make a mirror."
Baso said, "How can you possibly make a mirror by rubbing a tile?"
Nangaku replied, "How can you possibly make yourself into a genuine human by practicing?"
Last edited by Jundo; 09-13-2013 at 01:39 AM.
Ha! I was just thinking about that. When I said "not in a selfish way", that was BS. I always have ulterior motives; I think it's just a natural part of the ego.
During tonight's zazen I thought about when I ask questions about Zen, such as: "Am I doing it right?", "What about this?" I'm not asking those innocently; I'm usually really asking, "How do 'I' do this correctly so 'I' can get the most out of this?" It's how I live my life... or get through life to solve problems. I usually need to find the most efficient way to get something done. But it also causes problems, when that approach is taken to life. Living for efficiency is just joyless and it doesn't always take into consideration other people.. who are me as well.
So anyway during tonight's zazen I thought, it's not about that. Those are the wrong questions. It's not about what to get, it's about how to give. How do I best give myself to this practice? And it really is just sit... or as Taigu sensei says, "throw it all away". You have to... you just have to because those thoughts of getting constantly creep into practice. And it's not about rejecting them either; that's just another way of "getting" something, "getting" a sense of feeling pride because you aren't allowing those thoughts anywhere near you. It's just about letting them pass without grasping or rejecting. How do I give to this? How do I fully give myself to this practice without worrying about what may happen to "I" or how "I" will benefit?
I think that is an important question and not just on the cushion but in life. How do I give to this situation? Instead of how do "I" get the most out of this?
When "I" want something and dont' get it, I really can get disappointed... even during zen for some reason my eyes have been getting crosseyed lately. I have no idea why... sometimes my back gets sore, I'm in a crosseyed phase. hahahaah In any case, sometimes I get frustrated like why is this happening to "me"? But if I give myself to the moment and drop that it just goes away.
Just some random zennie thoughts.
Of course, I do not mean that we do not Practice in order to be better people, freer of Greed, Anger and Ignorance ... embodying Wisdom and Compassion ...
We do! And this Practice helps with that.
It is just that How can you possibly make yourself into a genuine human by practicing?
Even as we change, who and what is there to change?
As I said on another thread today ...
No matter what you say, you can't get out of the conundrum. You can't win for losing, any which way you turn.We strive sincerely, with all our hearts, for perfection, to do something well and get it right ... all while dropping from our hearts all "striving" (even as we strive) ... all while realizing the perfect "just what it is-ness" of things even as we try to do the best possible, perfectly right or perfectly wrong.
Zen is not a one or the other way.
Leads to another famous Koan on Practice, cited by Dogen at the end of the Genjo ...
Buddha is everywhere, there is no need or way to fan (Practice) to make Buddha. Yet by fanning, we bring Buddha to life.Master Ho-tetsu of Mt. Mayoku was using a fan. At that time, a monk came in and asked him, "[It is said that] the nature of air is to be ever-present, and there is no place that air cannot reach. Why then does the Master use a fan?"
The Master said, "You only know that the nature of air is to be ever-present, but you have not understood the fact that there is no place the air cannot reach."
The monk said, "What is the meaning of the principle 'There is no place the air cannot reach'?"
At this, the Master just [carried on] using the fan. The monk prostrated himself.
[Dogen says:] The real experience of Buddhism, the vivid behavior of the Buddhist tradition, is like this. Someone who says that because [the air] is ever-present we need not use a fan, or that even when we do not use [a fan] we can still feel the air, does not know ever-presence, and does not know the nature of air. Because the nature of air is to be ever-present, the behavior of Buddhists makes the Earth manifest itself as gold, and ripens the Milky Way into delicious cream.
Zen folks talk out of both sides of the no-sided mouth.
Gassho, J
Last edited by Jundo; 09-13-2013 at 03:25 AM.
When I saw this report, I could not help feeling that ultimately our Practice is like a skateboarding goat trying to be a genuine goat or a genuine skateboarder.
Nonetheless, we do our best to get into the Buddha Book of Records.
Righteous ridin' everyone!
Thank you Jundo
Le secret consiste donc seulement à dire "OUI" et à se jeter dans le vide. Dès lors, il n'y a plus de problème. Il s'agit d'être soi-même dans l'instant présent, toujours soi-même, sans s'accrocher à son vieux moi.Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
I started out to escape the suffering i was feeling at the time.
10 years after i can tell you that i dont really practice. ofcourse i sit zazen everyday, i dont really practice in the sense its a practice. the person i am now is inseparable from practice. i cant say if i am who i am because of zen practice, in spite of it or nothing to do with it. but its just me... it is who i am. i cant tell you in what ways practicing zen manifest in my life, if i think about it, it probably doesnt manifest at all in anyway. but it is a part of anything and everything i do, say or think. so i dont practice zen i just live.
Gassho, Dojin.
I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment
- the Buddha
Because life kept bouncing me back to the First Noble Truth again, again and again until I in my limited capability understood the causes of suffering. So Buddha seemed to be onto something. Now, Theravada makes most sense than other kinds of Budhism, but it takes infinite aeons to get anywhere, and we live in the last age or Dharma when no one gets enlightened anymore. So you switch to Mahayana, and you get a decent Madhyamika teachings that make a lot of sense, but you also don't get anywhere unless you serve million Buddhas or get a Tantra transmission that can drive you crazy. Then you realize you get crazy from conflicting ideas and views and you need something direct and simple. That's when you hit Zen. Zen is super-charged Yogacara beyond any traces of reason. You can't believe it, it forces you to practice. In Japan Zen was tough and was not meant to be a way for everyone. Samurais.
In the West, Zen became a safe haven for burned out hippies and suburban moms all about peace, love and flowers but the teachings are simple and are still available. There is no other way to deal with life than Zen. My humble five cents.
Mike,your post seems to be a bit confusing.If Theravada makes the most sense to you , then why Zen at all? I agree modern Western Zen is much different from the traditional Way. But the difference is more in that it is available to the layperson. One doesn't have to become a monk or nun in order to have access to the Dharma. And we beat each other less. Katsu is still valid in my view tho. So as you say Zen is the only way to deal with life, which of those stereotypical categories do you fall into if I may be so bold as to enquire?
In Metta,
Dave _/\_
P.S. I'm most undoubtedly a love and peace soccer mom. Just so we're clear.
Last edited by Shonin; 09-14-2013 at 04:28 AM.
And I am not a samurai either - just a plain software programmer, which according to an article I read some time ago makes me statistically a stereotypical candidate for a Zen student I would not joke if the friendly joke was not on me as well And yes, I want peace.
When you read Pali Theravada suttas, people ask questions, Gautama responds. In 80% of the cases you say to yourself - "Yes, this makes sense. I think he is right.". Very tough, very "ascetic", but it may be true. Anicca, anatta and the third thing. You can't find the self, the world is suffering, the stuff is arising in your mind and he describes it pretty down to earth and there is nothing that goes against reason.
When you move to Mahayana sutras, suddenly you see all of those miraculous displays of billions of worlds with jewels, lotus flowers, beams of lights and what not. Fast forward to Nirvana Sutra, and you have an Atman, which sounds like a blasphemy. Lots of stuff to swallow.
In my limited view, Zen cuts through all of this, tells me to shut up and sit. If there is a way, it must be simple.
Shut Up and Sit
Isn't that the frontispiece of the latest 'Buddha Book of Records'?
"Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"
I must confess sometimes I sit to become enlightened some day, and some days I realise that realisation is not a point to reach, the point is reached here and now, not once, but forever:as Dogen suggests in the Genjokoan(IMHO) "this no trace continues endlessly " is when we actualise moment after moment without appropriate one realisation by the ego "no traces of realisation remain" . I would prefer to use actualise rather than reached in this last case. to fall into the illusion of reaching enlightenment is spiritual materialism. Even after years of practice.
I may be wrong about Dogen, caution it's just a tought who will be corrected by our teachers
Last edited by Myoshin; 09-15-2013 at 01:28 PM.
A good thought though. I liked it anyways but I'm just a dude. Whether interpreting Dogen correctly or not, I couldn't say. But I especially like the thought about actualization vs. reaching. Just sit and all things fall into place.
Dave _/\_
Actualizing ... reaching ... All words. I like to say that one realizes (pierces what cannot be pierced) and realizes (makes real in living life) this non-realization. More words.
We reach ... partly by realizing that there is no place to get or ever in need of getting (that there was nothing apart to "get", nobody apart to "get it"), partly by walking the road which is ever under foot and without beginning or end.
I just posted this today, to a statement that our Way is not about kensho-satori-enlightenment. The comment was made ...
to which I said ...
But forget about Kensho/Satori/Enlightenment/etc. This practice is not about these things.
Perhaps for Rinzai practitioners.
Maybe you might check out the stuff from Kodo Sawaki...
HUH!?! Where did this come from?
I believe you confuse our "not chasing after, radically giving up the hunt" with "not finding". Who said that our Way ain't about Kensho-Satori-Enlightenment? Certainly not Kodo.
Here, please, carve this in your bones ...
More here ...Who ever said that there is "nothing to find" in, through and as this practice of "not seeking", no place to "get", no treasure to snare at the end of the rainbow?
Not me. I never would say such a thing. Then why pursue this path?
Who ever said there is no "enlightenment" to be achieved? I never would say that. It would not be Buddhism in that case.
Gassho, J
Last edited by Jundo; 09-16-2013 at 03:20 AM.
there's only one main reason, one main teacher, suffering...
First, I'm on the same path as buddha once was, searching for answers, for something to make sense, why do we live if it's all about suffering. Second, buddhism/zen seems like the best system to describe reality as true as possible, of everything that I have stumbled by so far in my life. And why the zen tradition. It feels like zen is at the core of the dharma teachings, striped off everything unnecessary.


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