Catastrophe as Spiritual Practice

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of the ego.
~Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism,
That is one of my favorite book titles ever. I […]

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Mutant Message Rising

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Todd has been gone since I last wrote. Off doing research, as I suggested, perhaps. I know that time flows very differently for Todd, so it may seem to him as if he’s only been gone a moment. I guess I’ll know when he returns.
It’s strangely appropriate, Todd’s absence. This has […]

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Your Mother is Not Happy

Friday, May 4th, 2007

A couple of days ago Tim commented on the weather report. The temperature that day, May 1st would reach a record high of 93. Today, three days later, the forecast is for a high of 64. That’s a drop of 29 degrees in three days.
Most people, at least most people in the privileged […]

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Grokking Catastrophe

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Todd was playing in my address book while I fine-tuned some audio edits. I could tell because every once in a while an address card would show up on my screen, then disappear again in an instant.
Eventually I figured out that Todd was going through my address book card by card, following […]

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