Haha nice story Max! As an experiment you can try next time to imagine you are a girl, shopping for 'boyish' clothes. Maybe you'll get rid of your frustration and you'll see yourself from the female side (aren't they usually the ones who can see in a split of a second what fits?)

Indeed, meditation is powerful. Missing one day feels like you didn't wake up that day. The dream just continues...

Werner

Is it just me that find this post odd?

You haven't SHARED the story, you just shared the PROCESS that you found "HILARIOUS!"

"But something really interesting happened during my most recent
clothes shopping experience that's worth sharing because it's
significant to our current social environment."

I find myself cheated. Maybe I should laugh at meditate. Thanks anyway for the sage advice.

I mean "laugh AND meditate."

"If you're stressing out right now over the
current socio-political-economic climate, choose to lighten up."

Derrick Jackson in an article today in the Boston Globe writes about one Scott Verhage, 23 of Michigan, "he has watched his overtime be eliminated at his job as a gas station cashier. He has suffered many indignities of having people irate at the price of gasoline take it out on him verbally and knock merchandise at his feet."

I understand how "meditation" can be helpful in such cases.

I also understand why you "hate shopping for clothes."

But if you don't/won't describe what had happened in your recent clothes shopping adventure, we can't really empathize with your experience and connect with your story.

"It's only been in the last couple of years that I have come
to peace with my small stature. "

"as long as
I'm willing to bite my ego and face the customer service
attendant.

This is why I hate shopping for clothes."

I also think a lot of people try to find "spiritual" solutions to "psychological" problems. A daily practice of a meditation technique will reduce stress and is helpful but is not necessarily a solution for every personal issue. It doesn't guarantee an evolution in spiritual path either.

"Instead of getting caught up in a "poor me" story, I just kept
laughing at the comedy of it all. Was a part of me still
mildly frustrated ? Definitely! But it felt so much easier and
more enjoyable to laugh instead."

Self-pity is not an option for a practicing sage. If meditation is same as laughing off your stress, then you have failed to cure the root cause. One can keep 'avoiding' inconvenient situations (like not shopping) or coping with laughing and meditation when frustrated. But that doesn't address the instinct to "avoid" and the "frustration." Yes, it might help you to cope with such instincts and reactions. A person evolved in his/her spiritual seeking (by not primarily/necessarily spiritual oriented meditation) doesn't see this whole situation through this lens at all.

I was surprised in a very good way by this post. Ego begone! is what this was about for me. Thank you.

Next up; Buttons!

DON'T H8!
MEDIT8!

hi Scott,
here is a quote I just read:
“ ... this is one of the worst delusions we have. We think that negative emotions are produced by circumstances, whereas all negative emotions are in us, inside us. This is a very important point… We have negative emotions because we permit them, justify them, explain them by external causes.” (P.D. Ouspensky)

Hi Max,
thanks for your post, and reminder to meditate.
~ Kate

Max, I think you have a quite nice problem!
Today me and my boyfriend went for shopping clothes and he complained a lot about that there are so much nice clothes at the women´s department but not at the men´s section. He pointed at a lot of clothes and bursted out that
-This one I want in a men´s size, but they don´t have it, why? and at the same time looked very frustrated. Today I actually think my boyfriend would have loved to have your size, beeing able to botanise as much as he wanted among the women´s clothes...

It is high time then for Unisex. Seems time to invent and explore a new market the (again).

I remember in my younger days here in Europe we used to exchange men's and women's clothes all the time so no one could in the end see anymore who was wearing what :)

High time to reinvent it!

http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/Catwalk/1038/unisex.html

http://www.fuddleduds.com/unisex.shtml

Hey Scott,
the whole thing struck me as 'not so subliminal' advertising. I don't really mean that, do I?
What do I mean?

Yet I feel mean.

No disrespect, Simon, we could be on to something, together to gather?

I guess I had Simon on my mind, Max ;)

haha! thats really funny...

I feel I am really tiny and short... actually being a girl living in North America is still ok (for some reason short girls are still accepted here), back in India people are crrraaazzzyyy over getting tall since the modelling revolution took over after Ms. Sen and Rai winning the international pagents..... being short is a handicap now in India..

My aunts visited recently and OH such a disappointment it was for them to find out how I did not grow tall at all...how sad it was!
I used to feel low on people's comments earlier... and that too to think of it, my own family would make such comments!! and just recently I've begun to be a bit comfortable with my stature...I've begun to see how its their perspective and not mine... ahh I wish they understood though that IT DOES NOT MATTER!

Sometimes I find myself laughing at a thought that struck me funny. And I have to stop it to be socially acceptable. And then I wonder why, as maybe it is normal to laugh, seeing that we lead mainly psychic lives and not physical lives as supposed. And I wonder why it may be that others do not walk down the street laughing as much as I.

Dear Scott Tiger #4,

I think "a person evolved" may actually be set into unagravating cicumstances due to his evolvement, not that he has become so perfect in his personality. And of course, his attention is Elsewhere.
(Jesus got pretty darn mad at the money changers.)

Just a thought.

#15 Jesus was hell-bound for crucifixion, don't you think? Evolvement the hard way, perhaps.

Dear Ed,
You're such a kidder. You know Jesus was an actor.

To clarify, God was the Director of That Play.

I guess that is the Mystery. And the Example. Thanks for the pondering.

Je t'amore. In a nutshell, from a peanut.

Sorry if me French not so good. Mon coeur est way bueno, tout de sweet!

#18 Resonate with your #14, too. I think people must be dim if they don't laugh with you up or down Sherry street. Jesus does.
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