Zen Irony

In my spare time I like to go through magazines and cut out pictures that inspire me to make unique photo collages.  I was going through a recent edition of “Rolling Stone”, and saw an article about yoga.  I’m a very visual person.  I didn’t bother to even read the title of the article.  I just started cutting out zen pictures that inspired me.  It was a pretty long article, with pages and pages of peaceful pictures.  My positive Chi was growing- or so I thought.

When I got to the last page of the article, my Chi climaxed into insanity.  There was a full page photo of a deranged monk drowning this struggling college kid.    Take that positive energy!

As it turns out the entire article  was about this cult that targeted college students.  It taught the youth that the fatigued feeling you get from starvation is a good and will enhance your Chi.  It also taught that the feeling you get from nearly drowning will bring you closer to inner peace.  Oh, and it taught yoga as a way of life.

I can’t believe I was cutting out pictures from an article about a cult to inspire me.  There’s no better redeeming factor for a suicide cult than yoga!

Charles Shaw, rescue me from this zen insanity.

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