About: Karl Saliter
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10,002 Ways to Pray “Help.”by Karl Saliter on May 1, 2013 I hold them as if they might speak to me through my arterial walls, though I’m not fluent in that. They are silent as a feather landing in a hammock. 827 views |
Single-Use Bagel Disturbs Man’s Calm.by Karl Saliter on Apr 11, 2013 That is what they do, but who has the time anymore to actually do anything? 467 views |
 The Darkest Fairy Tale, Ever.by Karl Saliter on Mar 1, 2013 “No!” she cried. Nobody listened. 450 views |
Chickpeas with Alan Watts.by Karl Saliter on Feb 23, 2013 I would be pissed that you seem to have an answer for everything, except the answers you have are so damn good. You are awesome, Alan. Simple as that. 299 views |
 Super Supercapacitors, Cardboard Bikes & the Ultimate Dream Car.by Karl Saliter on Feb 22, 2013 Source: Uploaded by user via Felipe on Pinterest Are you down with hope? What is your vision of the coming five, ten years? Do you see people flying around in personal hovercraft? Wikipedia: “Hope is the ‘feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best’ or the act [...] 562 views |
NY Times’ Writer Caught lying in negative Tesla Review?by Karl Saliter on Feb 16, 2013 So why would the Times writer Broder lie and down talk this only real piece of American auto innovation in forever? 409 views |
 Non-Conceptuality for Dummies: We Are All in a Huge Time Out.by Karl Saliter on Feb 16, 2013 We are happier than that time you scored a basket against all odds and everyone jumped out of their seats to cheer and your mom and dad were both there and the teacher who thought you were Bozo Incarnate even had to admit “Shit, nice shot!” 913 views |
 Valentine’s Day Fallout Love Letter.by Karl Saliter on Feb 14, 2013 Dear Everything, My friend Athena, in her letter to you, suggested I write you. So thanks for the friends I have all over and for the cool stuff they are creating on this pseudo sacred day; for their hearts honoring love; for this exact ability: generating and seeding love. For the heart’s agility and the [...] 1,158 views |
 Make Love The Weirdest Way Ever.by Karl Saliter on Feb 13, 2013 Don’t say I didn’t do anything for you. 250 views |
“Humane” Meat? I’m Over It.by Karl Saliter on Feb 8, 2013 There is no nutritional reason to eat meat. There is no ethical reason to eat meat. There is no compassionate way to eat meat. 784 views |
Cutting Loose: Biking from Iraq to Cambodia.by Karl Saliter on Feb 8, 2013 It is a universal process. We are all, somewhere, stuck, Our true enemy is our own resignation. 362 views |
God Made a Factory Farmer.by Karl Saliter on Feb 7, 2013 Here is Funny Or Die’s take on the, well, “heartland-cowboy-hat-pandering-let’s sell you a truck” Super Bowl commercial. It features a more accurate look at farmers today, and at Dodge: God Made A Factory Farmer – watch more funny videos Like elephant funny on Facebook. Ed: Kate Bartolotta 404 views |
 Why Vegetarian Is Just Way Short of the Mark. {Video}by Karl Saliter on Feb 6, 2013 Source: fab.com via Traci on Pinterest A recent, very fun conversation about speaking up vs. keeping quiet on diet choices led me to the keyboard tonight. I was looking for a link to a favorite YouTube clip; this one is just beautiful, from John and Ivy: It is bouncy and fun to listen to. I [...] 167 views |
Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts? {Nudity}by Karl Saliter on Feb 5, 2013 “Practicing yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter.” 1,815 views |
 Morality, My Ass.by Karl Saliter on Feb 5, 2013 You are every song they ever wrote, played expertly in riverwater and fire. 1,951 views |
Sh*t Gentrifiers Say.by Karl Saliter on Jan 29, 2013 At a recent meditation retreat in Woodstock, our teacher, Lama Kathy, play-act illustrated grasping. She pretended to be a person who has paid for a candy from a vending machine, and failed to get one. She got down and pretended to reach way up into the machine. She spoke of how stupid people look, when [...] 296 views |
NRA Guns for Kids Efforts: Sickening.by Karl Saliter on Jan 27, 2013 Reading the article, you’ll have your “No no no it cannot be this is tooooooooooo much!” moment when this comes up: 415 views |
Karma Through The Django Movie Lens.by Karl Saliter on Jan 26, 2013 Sometimes, our basic goodness is what certain perspectives might label “bad.” Fuck ‘em. 204 views |
These 10 Videos Will Change Your Life.by Karl Saliter on Jan 26, 2013 All of these are, in no particular order, pretty much awesome on wheels. 2,118 views |
 I am sick enough to laugh at this. You?by Karl Saliter on Jan 25, 2013 Is there anyone who doesn’t find this funny? Educate me, tell me why. I bet I’m being insensitive. I promise not to laugh at you, and that is a total lie. 264 views |
Yoga Teacher Cluetrain: Ten Cars Long.by Karl Saliter on Jan 24, 2013 Teaching yoga poses a danger, that of taking yourself too seriously. Please don’t ever talk to me from having arrived. I’ll puke on your shoes, I swear it. 747 views |
The New Gay Bashing: Yikes!by Karl Saliter on Jan 23, 2013 It is untethered, ramped-up hate. Today’s NYT Opinion has a video piece on it, so so creepy. 164 views |
Yoda, Jedi Bodhisattva From Hell.by Karl Saliter on Jan 22, 2013 “The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side.”~ Yoda Do you think Yoda was a Buddhist? Because my boy is so onto it here. The jedi master has his hands firmly around the concept of grasping; letting go of desires, wishing well for others before self, is huge, like King Kong in [...] 518 views |
Flu Shot: Yes or No?by Karl Saliter on Jan 16, 2013 For me, when I’m being strapped to a guerney screaming, and needled away “for my own good”, well, it just stops being fun. 696 views |
Top-Earning Elephant Writers Tell All! How to Strike It Rich Writing Here.by Karl Saliter on Jan 15, 2013 “So yeah, f*ck it. Just write. It doesn’t have to be beautiful or eloquent or any of that bulls^#t. If it’s from the heart, it’s perfect.” 1,111 views |
 A Rampage of Appreciation.by Karl Saliter on Jan 12, 2013 The bend, the overloaded carts, the speed of a motor vehicle department infusing his every breath, to me they are the sutras. He is a bodhisattvah on wheels. 370 views |
 Letter To A Vegan, From A Meat Eater.by Karl Saliter on Jan 10, 2013 Here is a letter, emailed to me this morning. My responses are in italics. 4,571 views |
Navigating the Carnival: 10 Quotes on Opening Up.by Karl Saliter on Jan 9, 2013 I’ve had enough of hiding, and being stuck in default to unconscious patterns. I want to hurt when I hurt, and laugh like a bastard when shit is funny. 188 views |
What Is Happening when We Allow Ourselves to Get Upset?by Karl Saliter on Jan 9, 2013 You are a crazy beautiful source of love and you are made of busted stars flung in pieces centuries ago. There’s no other way anything needs to be. 202 views |
Re-tooling Resentment.by Karl Saliter on Jan 8, 2013 The cry for any form of self sufficiency, for autonomy in emotional calibration, for freedom from our drastic, visceral trafficking in events as currency for feelings. How can you break that? 917 views |
10 Quotes Distilling Meditation, Sort Of.by Karl Saliter on Jan 7, 2013 I could take that quote out for dinner, tell it it was looking pretty and mean it, pick up the check and tip large, in absolute secrecy, and suggest a perfect club for dancing after. 416 views |
STFU Fest: 7 Reasons to Shut Up & Come.by Karl Saliter on Jan 5, 2013 STFU Fest is a symphony in silence. A rhapsody in reverie. It was life- changing and mind expanding. Here’s why to do it. 453 views |
“Vegan Style.” {Gangnam Video Parody}by Karl Saliter on Jan 3, 2013 And its kind of fun, too, if you’ve ever rolled your eyes while someone less healthy than you explains how you need to eat more healthy. Oy. 883 views |
10 Quotes You Must Read Before 2013 (or at least early into it).by Karl Saliter on Dec 31, 2012 Let’s look at time, love, the human condition, and God. But quickly, no fluff. 3,924 views |
 Open Suicide Letter to Monsanto.by Karl Saliter on Dec 29, 2012 A note which one farmer may have left, unseen and unread, blowing along the rows of his once fertile, now ruined land. 773 views |
Eat More Chocolate in 2013.by Karl Saliter on Dec 28, 2012 Keep tasting. Keep loving. Keep trying. We don’t know what’s next, we do know it is probably best met with chocolate. 429 views |
 Snowfall, Grand Central Station.by Karl Saliter on Dec 24, 2012 So out of the tunnel and up. Up into the Main Concourse. I arrive there, my feet on the floor. This room is huger than God’s Fist. 693 views |
 5 Ways Coffee Can Save Christmas: The Yoga of Java.by Karl Saliter on Dec 22, 2012 Coffee is love, you guys, everyone knows that. 1,182 views |
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First Aid Kit, America, Election Healing. {Video}by Karl Saliter on Nov 3, 2012 Remember Obama talking about being a congressman in The Audacity of Hope? He said that from day one, it was fundraise, or pack your things. That is our president. And he is the uncreepy candidate. 434 views |
The Lucky Ones: Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.by Karl Saliter on Oct 18, 2012 How are you fixed for living heroes? I don’t know Jenny Brown at all, so who knows what she’s like, but having said that… Hero. Disclaimer: I was given a copy of “The Lucky Ones” for review. I emailed asking for it, wielding the awesome power of an elephant journal writer, and found that rascal [...] 133 views |
Screaming Gratitude Ensemble.by Karl Saliter on Sep 28, 2012 We are grave robbing before the fact. 341 views |
Be A Ninja (Do it For the Cats).by Karl Saliter on Sep 15, 2012 Sometimes, the little things are the big things. This is an emergency call to action, for a little place on the planet where learning and growing is revered. If in our yoga practice, our meditation, our mindset, we cultivate compassion, let’s please shower this place with emails of love and support. Let’s ask them—kindly—to clean the [...] 352 views |
Talking the Talk, Walking the Dog.by Karl Saliter on Aug 9, 2012 In Japan, monks are often paid to pray. Businessmen who don’t have the time for that sort of thing simply write a check, and thereby accrue merit. The execs practice what they’re good at, and the monks are freed up to do their thing. I’m given to understand that harmony results. Recently, someone asked if [...] 573 views |
Report: The Universe Doesn’t Suck.by Karl Saliter on Aug 6, 2012 My coffee this morning was weak, but some galaxies contain hundreds of millions of suns. 399 views |
Heavily Buoyant.by Karl Saliter on Jul 15, 2012 Thich Nhat Hahn said: I was a cloud once. One time I was a star. This is not a poem. This is science. 315 views |
Meat me Halfway.by Karl Saliter on Jul 10, 2012 I am sitting on a porch amid ferns in Playa del Carmen, watching the world spin by. I have 29 percent power left on my laptop, and my charger is being repaired. So I’ll keep this quick. There is no ethical reason to eat meat. Looking for an ethical reason to eat meat is like [...] 282 views |
Light-Hearted Enlightenment.by Karl Saliter on Jul 2, 2012 All we need to do is feel. Be open. Uncloud. 129 views |
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My Daughter, My Dad.by Karl Saliter on Jun 17, 2012 We became lightheaded and got lost. We were lightheaded before too but we became more so. 583 views |
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