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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:16:55 -0500

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Prepare for Launch

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:20:36 -0500

We’re finishing up our vacation at the Beaton family lake house on Tennessee/Mississippi border. It’s been really relaxing most of the time, especially compared to the all-consuming house renovation. I’ve still had to keep working on my w

Arbitrary (Repost)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:55:42 -0500

Meaning in life is arbitrary. Why ruin the universe with rigidity? Why do we make the choices we do? After all, we do not have unlimited freedom to do things. We find ourselves [...]

“Tao of Nora” Blank Greeting Cards…

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:43 -0500

After a few requests for greeting cards with images and quotes from my Tao of Nora calendar, my human, Burnell, rose to the occasion and created a series of blank greeting cards inspired by my calendar. You can buy them singly and in packs of ten or

Do You Want To Save Your Mother

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:08:09 -0500

Great Is The Love It was a joke, a frightening joke. This video was removed, but it was all because ‘we’ don’t understand, and yes, really I don’t understand, but I was aware of everything that happened, but just that people

MONEY OR LIFE

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:56:38 -0500

【天龍八部】喬峰的一生回憶 What has the lawyers learned? We shall see. We shall see. I never go court before. I never study law. How can I be a lawyer when I have poor English? How can I be even a teacher, a qualified teacher when I do

Impermanence and Loss

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:54:04 -0500

I recently received a voicemail from my sister in which she said that she needed to talk to me about something important. I phoned her immediately and she delivered some startling news. She told me that she had heard that my former band director from

Chuang Tzu and Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:53:00 -0500

Eyes to Think, Ears to See." Chuang Tzu’s (399?–295?b.c.) philosophy, in part, consists of manyenigmatic expressions and metaphors that appear to be exaggerated.Looking at the way he expresses philosophical ideas, it is difficult to tellif he is

Is It A Downturn or Opportunity?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:46:00 -0500

"All our dreams come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt DisneyThe cyclical nature of things always seems to take us by surprise. Everything we learn from history to geology have cyclical natures. The rise of a civilization or emp

Mind Like Water: Tao 34

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:09:14 -0500

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Crying children

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:13:00 -0500

On a more upbeat topic, a poster on the Reform Taoism forum was a while back asking for ideas on how to deal with a baby who was healthy but crying a lot due to teething, and the stresses that places on parents. Obviously it's important to check with

The Soul

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:59:00 -0500

Continuing on my cheery theme of death (I'm really in quite a happy place right now so I don't know why this theme keeps coming up - maybe the Tao is trying to tell me something?????), a while back the question came up of whether there is a separate

Budgets of the local governments

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:27:00 -0500

A random find by Google - an Excel sheet with the budgets of all the local government entities (municipalities, PAO and TAO) for the fiscal year 2551 (2008). The file comes from the website of the town Tha Kham in Surat Thani, though it actually must

Funerals

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:57:00 -0500

Nice cheery subject, I know, but I've seen a few posts on forums over the years discussing how to arrange a funeral service for a philosophical Taoist. I saw another the other day and it got me thinking about how I might want it done given that most

Miti dall'Antica Cina: il significato meta religioso del Tao

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:32:00 -0500

Tutto ciò che è yin ha una natura femminile, tutto ciò che è yang ha una natura maschile. Nelle feste collettive di primavera, quando yang «evade dalla sua prigione colpendo il suolo con un calcio», i due cori contrapposti, maschile e femminile

Independent Spirituality

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:48:00 -0500

*******We can no longer force ourselves to "join" any organized faith. We have God (Love) in our hearts, and that is all that we will ever need.Hey, if George [pseudonym] is interested in the independent spiritual path, we have a couple of books tha

Turmoil

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:45:10 -0500

I’m still here, wishing I could be writing more every day but just basically dealing with life’s entanglements. Surfing the Tao is surely a skill I am working on daily; having the wisdom and strength to relax and have perspective on life

GET SPOTTED IN LAS VEGAS

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0500

Driving the Tao

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:11:52 -0500

...When we met the pond we saw butterflies everywhere. We did not come here to find them. and the butterflies did not come here to meet us. They were just being Butterflies. The pond was just a pond. We were just being spontaneous....

Chinese Sex Secrets

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:00:33 -0500

In honor of the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, here’s an excellent video that reveals some Chinese sex secrets for foreplay, thrusting techniques, sex positions, and delaying ejaculation.