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Tame Bear on October 21st, 2011

It’s great to be an American. Here’s an idea I’ve had that I’d like to share with you right here in the public domain. An idea so incredibly simple a Yahoo could do it! The first company to bifurcate the world wide web into two hemispheres… THE CORPORATION PROPERTIES — and the — PERSONAL HUMAN […]

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Tame Bear on October 19th, 2011

God looks out upon the world from all the eyes of all the creatures therein. To see as God sees, regard every creature as the body of God. ~Tame Bear Our dear cat Duncan died several months ago, on May 26, 2011. His ashes still sit on the side table in the living room, waiting to be buried, […]

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Tame Bear on October 5th, 2011

R.I.P. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 Read Steve Jobs – A biography by Walter Isaacson  

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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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Tame Bear on June 14th, 2011

They say that “LinkedIn is where you tell lies to yourself, Facebook is where you tell half-lies to your friends, and Twitter is where you tell the Gods-honest truth to total strangers.” If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ve all told a few lies here and there. As a cub, I was fascinated with this lying […]

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Tame Bear on March 23rd, 2011

If The Bear appears to write often without making reference to God, it’s because God runs through all-that-is without ever being a separate thing. I do not wish to invoke the idea of a creator-God separated and apart from all else. This is why I see you as no less of a creator than God. You […]

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Tame Bear on March 8th, 2011

So a couple weeks ago, The Bear discovered Quora, and signed up. Pretty quickly, I got an email from Quora, asking if “Tame Bear” was in fact my real name… A Quora admin said: “Hello, One of the rules of Quora is that everyone uses his or her real full name. Do you mind changing […]

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