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 true Ben 2006-06-26T11:45:00-06:00 2006-06-26T18:04:50Z 2006-06-26T17:47:21Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-115134404195547946 Lame excuses VS working hypotheses Pondering how Ted Honderich is arguable the world's premiere philosopher of determinism, I wondered on how sophistry ("excuses") so frequently has a sour, caustic, bitter tone to it. Perhaps because the individual is a) dreading being exposed as a coward, and b) in denial concerning having actually and really made a choice. We can produce explanations. We can, otherwise, produce rationalizations. false Ben 2003-09-01T14:30:07-06:00 2003-09-01T20:30:07Z 2003-09-01T20:30:07Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-106244820722283099 On the subject of The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and its "Declaration of the Religions for a Global Ethic." Hans Kung; Explanatory Remarks Concerning a "Declaration of the Religions for a Global Ethic" Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions "Towards A Global Ethic" ... "Urban Dharma" has a document by that name There are excerpts here, and this is a false Ben 2003-08-30T12:26:47-06:00 2003-08-30T18:32:43Z 2003-08-30T18:26:47Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-106226800744967052 Updated information on the Open Retreat with The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Dzogchen and Egolessness: Gaining Confidence in Liberation. December 1-7, 2003 Santa Sabina Retreat Center, San Rafael, CA Please join The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche for a week of engaging talks, powerful meditation instruction, and songs of enlightenment from the Kagyu and Dzogchen traditions. This year, Rinpoche false Ben 2003-08-27T21:15:43-06:00 2003-08-28T03:16:01Z 2003-08-28T03:15:43Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-106204054329003329 "May all beings be empowered to discover their unique path to ending suffering. May all being discover that path through serving others." false Ben 2003-08-27T19:21:14-06:00 2003-08-28T01:21:14Z 2003-08-28T01:21:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-106203367491507043 "The koan arises naturally, in daily life." I have apparently been alone in wanting my daily life to have the quality of life that one finds in a monastic setting. At least, alone recently, since this notion comes to me not from speculation but, rather, from experience: once through Roman Catholicism (in a "formation house", where individuals considering the priesthood lived together in false Ben 2003-08-26T18:33:36-06:00 2003-08-27T00:33:36Z 2003-08-27T00:33:36Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-106194441688552934 Why is 30 years more potent than 25? A couple of weeks ago I had a profound insight into my PTSD, but didn't get it quite right: it turns out that I taint moments of success /not/ because I have come to believe myself unworthy, but rather (and, friends, incredible as it might seem, this next detail explains away my writer's block!), because that "success" was actually negative ... retrograde ... false Ben 2003-03-27T19:51:37-07:00 2003-03-28T02:51:37Z 2003-03-28T02:51:37Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-91519656 "Nasiriyah Turns Into 'Nightmare' for Marines (washingtonpost.com)" In the land of the ark, in the desert, one might even learn the meaning of such basics as food, and water. In war, we learn death. Or we do not learn, and so pass that lesson on to generations not yet born. May we learn from this day's dead children. false Ben 2003-03-27T19:33:52-07:00 2003-03-28T05:09:45Z 2003-03-28T02:33:52Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-91518723 washingtonpost.com - News Front Duality of Wrath; Complexity and the Collapsing Monolith- Wet sheep on a foggy hillside after the hail storm, fresh out of the mud, accompanied by a cell-phone in a plastic bag and whoever was on the other end of the line. http://mozdawg.blogspot.com/ false Ben 2003-03-23T20:12:49-07:00 2003-03-24T03:12:49Z 2003-03-24T03:12:49Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388332.post-91255603 I've been entirely pre-occupied with correspondence and blogging at "Beyond Greed". It's about democracy, which has precious little to do with benevolent tyranny or "might makes right". false