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Mar.06.2010
Poking at Pride
Quite often we consider ourselves as being other than what we are.
There is a story of a mule who went among the steeds of the area and when asked who his parents were, he replied, “My father is a stallion, but failed to acknowledge that his mother was a burro.”
Now...
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Feb.12.2010
The image of the Saint of Scholarly Seeking toiling away among moth-eaten books in silent libraries smelling of old wood was a romantic notion.
Botulism and Babel
Jean-Baptiste Botul does not exist, but having been cited and sanctified by a real philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, he has exposed the...
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Jan.20.2010
1.I looked into you as long as I could:But I didn't see any infinity.It’s just not there.I’m sorry.You are all here.2.Zen is all surface,No deeper than whatever is.
pavel, skating the thin ice of presence
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Jan.01.2010
What do we want to know?Not just “know”-ledge.Smart people know many things and impress with encyclopedic minds—a residue of fact and opinion.To see into the faceof a cat is to assimilate something significant.To be a world leaderwith a sense of humorand self-deprecationamid ease of global...
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Dec.02.2009
I have been thinking about loss of knowledge when societies come to an end. My tribe faced that, and now all we have are scraps of info collected by an ethnographer and artifact collector, collected after the society had already lost most of its ancient ways.
When I worked in Hawai'i, people were...
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Nov.16.2009
Immigration has existed for millions of years, since the early beginnings of our presence on this planet for thousands of years and other living creatures have also immigrated long before our existance. We talk about illegal migrants from developing nations coming to the Western world for a better...
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Nov.11.2009
“In a world where life has different seasons, we mustn’t give hope and believe we can make a difference.”
“We must not compromise what we stand for, even if some might feel offended by our values. Nor must we apologize to the world for our values because they have shaped us to where...
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Jun.14.2009
What else you can know: The certainty that we are assisted.
After spending many years in search for a more peaceful way to live through prayer, reading, classes, lectures, and seminars; I find that we all come to the same fork in the road every single day through yet another choice....
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May.27.2009
A while back I posted about the number of requests for help I get from people who have stumbled across my Japanese art blog whilst trying to identify and value their family heirlooms. And when I say 'request' I am being polite... I actually receive rather rude demands, and sometimes pretty...
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Apr.04.2009
My stepmother, who I dearly love (I wanted to make that clear, since so often when people start a sentence with "my stepmother" it's about something they aren't happy about), recently sent me this link to a You Tube video, with the subject heading of "Incredibly...
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