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Wisdom Wonk: September 2006
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Thursday, September 28, 2006. Gregory Bateson, the famous systems theorist called this insight the delimiting of the self . So be all you can be, which is everything there is! It’ll make you a much bigger person. Posted by Tad Toomay @ 11:56 AM. Links to this post. Saturday, September 16, 2006. In a City of Fallen Angels. In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is asked by his disciples, When will heaven come? Posted by Tad Toomay @ 11:54 PM. Links to this post. Sunday, September 03, 2006. It is also important to...
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Wisdom Wonk: April 2006
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006. There is no real reason you cannot be happy. If that’s true why does it seem so hard sometimes? Why, as Lama Surya Das points out in his questions, are we so often seduced by unskillful thoughts and emotions? Posted by Tad Toomay @ 11:15 AM. Links to this post. Sunday, April 16, 2006. An Infinity of Miracles. As I've written before, scientific inquiry can be a spiritual practice. After all, the two contain the common elements of inspiration, attention, and questioning. Sadly, s...
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Wisdom Wonk: July 2006
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Monday, July 17, 2006. A Year in Erik's World. We take these things for granted. Time and circumstances can also remove someone from one’s life. I moved to the coast and started writing a book and when I heard about what happened it dawned on me that I hadn’t seen him in a decade. It didn’t matter. Once you’ve gotten to know this guy he’s like something lodged in your chest. The news knocked the wind out of me. I feel so fortunate to have a few studio quality recordings of us playing together. I reme...
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Wisdom Wonk: June 2006
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Saturday, June 24, 2006. In many ways modern science affirms the existence of a cosmic intelligence. As science writer Sharon Begley notes in her introduction to the book, The Hand of God. The cosmos seems fine-tuned for existence, in an almost too-good-to be-true manner. To some, this 'fine-tuning' of the laws that govern the universe is no less than proof of a designer." The intro goes on to mention several examples of these proofs. What do you think? Or are the phenonena of the physical universe just ...
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Wisdom Wonk: March 2006
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Friday, March 24, 2006. Ever have one of those days when it feels like the universe is conspiring to do you good? Yesterday was like that for me. My teaching gig ends early on Thursdays and no sooner did I get home than a couple of dear friends from out of town popped in ready to have some fun. It so happened that the De Young Art Museum in San Francisco was having its annual Bouquets to Art event so we jumped in the car and crossed the Bay Bridge jones-ing for some serious eye candy. As we left the De Y...
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Wisdom Wonk: October 2006
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Monday, October 09, 2006. The other day my wife was caught in a long grocery line feeling a bit of this morale meltdown and also a bit of what she calls hurry-scurry mind that sense of oppression you get when you're caught in a traffic jam of one sort or another with the lurching Godzilla of time hot on your heels. Then she found herself face to face with a baby being held by the woman in line in front of her. Posted by Tad Toomay @ 2:29 PM. Links to this post. San Francisco Bay Area, California. I’m a w...
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Wisdom Wonk: December 2006
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Monday, December 18, 2006. Sunday In the City. It was one of those Sundays when there was magic in the air from the first light. When I wake up, a melody replete with chords, downloads into to my brain in the first three seconds of consciousness. I get up and tip toe off to another room to write it down. It sounds like a rollicking Irish ballad and it sets the tone for the whole day. And here we are musing at the hustle and bustle of Columbus Avenue, foamy coffee drinks, bagels cream cheese and salmon be...
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Wisdom Wonk: August 2006
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Thursday, August 24, 2006. Okay, so I’m just a guy contemplating, meditating and digging for information about the big questions questions like:. What is the essential nature of physical reality? Is everything a form of conscious spirit as the eastern philosophies and American indigenous cultures have intuited? Just as important: Is the average Joe capable of deep lasting happiness without destroying, one’s fellow beings and oneself in the attempt. But if, as some say. the spirit indwells us all, wel...
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Wisdom Wonk: May 2006
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Thursday, May 18, 2006. We See What We Are By Seeing What We Aren't. Much of our watching will be of our own little ego world because by seeing how its perceptions and manipulations construct its universe, we begin to separate ourselves from that entity that separates us from everything. Soon the almighty thought construction called self with all its distracted need-charged agendas, loses its credibility and its once-powerful ability to seduce us into paying homage to its drama queen self-absorbtion.
