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Tame Bear on September 28th, 2011

In August of 2011, 50,000 people converged on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a radically self-reliant community experience like no other… “Burning Man – Rites of Passage.” While “The Man” held the center of attention, it was in the Temple of Transition where the citizens of Black Rock City opened their minds and […]

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Tame Bear on September 27th, 2011

Today Treesh and I traded in our vacation emergency car (the 2000 Chevy Suburban with it’s on-demand four-wheel drive, V8 engine, 3 passenger seats and all that cargo space) for a sporty little Smart Car. Think small – it’s more our style. Here is a picture of the two cars side-by-side… That’s the maroon-colored Suburban […]

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Tame Bear on September 23rd, 2011

A funny thing happened on our way to Burning Man… Brigid, our 17-year-old Chevy S10 pickup, suffered catastrophic engine failure while going 75mph on I-80 about 20 miles east of Sidney, Nebraska. Lots of banging and shuddering, then the engine was dead, the dashboard lit up, and we coasted to a stop on the shoulder […]

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Tame Bear on August 11th, 2011

All the world is exactly and entirely as we have imagined it to be. That sounds so ordinary, but it is not. The “we” I speak of is everybody, all of us together, who are alive and imagining at this moment. If you read the Tame Bear Weblog regularly, you’ll recognize the underlying theme of […]

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Tame Bear on July 19th, 2011

If we tend to think things are going from bad to worse, this video is clearly the antidote. Hans Rosling’s global health video — “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” — plots lifespan on the vertical axis, and income/wealth on the horizontal axis, animating data in realspace.

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Tame Bear on July 9th, 2011

I thought I had seen all the Harry Potter movies. After all, my sweetie is a big fan and has them all on DVD. And we’ve gone to see them all in the theater too, right? Well… apparently not. For some reason — and neither of us are quite sure why — I have never […]

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Tame Bear on June 30th, 2011

“The world around you is the world inside you. They are not two things. You (in there) are the world (out here).” ~ Tame Bear  Seeing the ultimate indivisibility of all things is a key to understanding nonduality. The world is ONE, not TWO. In our minds, we slice up the world in a trillion different ways […]

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Did you know the world is ending tomorrow? Just thought you’d like to know. So what that means is… END-OF-THE-WORLD Party TONIGHT! Here’s what you need: Party hats. What’s a party without the hats? All your best party friends. Fill the house! Booze, and plenty of it. Rockin’ dance music blasting out the windows. A […]

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Tame Bear on May 14th, 2011

You give donations to a few of your favorite charitable organizations, and the next thing you know you’re on hundreds of mailing lists. The flood of postal spam is ridiculous. We have a box on the front porch where we toss most of it, unopened. Here’s a way to turn that junk into useful stuff. […]

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Tame Bear on May 6th, 2011

Yeah I’m just a bear, and it’s been years since I’ve had a shave and a good clipping myself, but that won’t stop me from wondering… What would Donald Trump look like if he got a decent haircut? (*That’s Trump on the left, and… Terry Bradshaw on the right.)   ______ If you like this […]

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