Being
The Bear didn’t know about regional Burning Man events until last year, as a “virgin” burner in Black Rock City, 2011. Pleased to discover a local Great Lakes conclave, I attended the regional “Lakes of Fire” event this past weekend, and even volunteered on the “Leave No Trace” team, helping to clean up remnants of […]
Hey, I like to think my own success was based on one thing only — my remarkable congeniality, or what might these days be called “social friendliness.” I type fast and I like to chat. But I have to admit I had an ace in my back pocket — that grand-daddy of social traffic web […]
It may help you to begin a practice of meditation by narrowing your focus. Recall that the purpose of meditation is to transcend the apparent duality of the world by recognizing the illusion that’s placed upon our filtered perception of the world by the language and symbolic representation of the contrasting dual opposites. The mind […]
I am hungry. I could eat something but that’s not gonna satisfy this hunger. It’s a hunger to know truth, and food is a distraction. Don’t worry, I’m eating ok. : ) This hunger in my stomach, I am coming to realize, is actually a hunger in my head. That’s the hunger I really need […]
See what the world is becoming.
“Let us recall that the Villa Agrees, seat of the municipal undertaking, accomodates regularly various demonstrations related to rites of passage.” A translation, from French to English, by Yahoo Babelfish, of the Swiss language publication about an annual effige-burning rites of spring event. .
Sometimes clarity comes at the most inopportune moments. Listen to a brief heartfelt story from just about six years ago… Tame Bear presents an original audio podcast from 2006: Calamity On Our House Play It Now This I know, that just as the reflections fade on water with the setting sun, so there will […]
It may feel strange to you if you’ve never contemplated this before (as perhaps you have not), but let’s accept for the moment that if you wish to live entirely and exclusively in the NOW, you would give up entirely any earnest memory or recollection of the past and even the vaguest imaginations of the […]
