Rimpoche in SF.
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:37 PDT

Old pic... good times. Rimpoche is coming to San Francisco this weekend. Here is some info about his talks:

fri/sat 21/22 sept special events


  GEHLEK RIMPOCHE at noe valley ministry (1021 sanchez at 23rd)

  "Spiritual Practice: Why Bother?"
  fri 21 sept / 730-9pm / $15 suggested donation

  "Living Enthusiastically"
  sat 22 sept / 2-5pm / $30


this weekend is a rare chance to see rimpoche in san
francisco. rimpoche is my spiritual master, and you
know he gives good talks because i keep going back to
michigan (and new york) for his teachings. but why
should you go to these teachings?

* highly-entertaining lectures: expect a peppering of
  old tibet stories, buddhist parables, and pop culture
  references.

* these are public talks. no prayers, chanting, or
  mumbo jumbo. just down-home tibetan buddhist wisdom
  for the modern san franciscan.

* like any buddhist master, rimpoche has celebrity
  friends (most notably philip glass, mike wong, and
  the late allen ginsberg).

* "lightbulb moments:" many people (incl. me)
  frequently find answers to current personal problems
  within his lectures.

* i'll be there and i haven't seen you in a while.

* i'll be the MC.

* this is not a cult, this is the culmination of 2000
  years of spiritual practice that is as relevant now
  as it was in buddha's time. 

* rimpoche is progressive and anti-anti-gay.

* i need someone to help me carry my dad's wheelchair
  up to the second floor for the saturday teaching.

* there will probably be a question/answer session at
  the end on saturday. those always rock.


you can check out rimpoche's bio and the abstracts of
the two talks on the flier i whipped up for him:

  http://giardiacorp.com/G482/GehlekRimpoche-SF07.pdf

you can also visit jewelheart.org for more info about
the center. thanks for reading !!

Another Asian's take on AA.
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10 PDT

I don't know why this response was easier to take. Maybe because not caring seems better than caring the wrong way.

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Damn, this blog is sounding political. What's happening to me? Would you rather see pictures of whatever is dangling out of Mao's ass this week? Are you upset about me posting your IMs (albeit anonymously) to the web? Do you think that depleted uranium munitions are totally justified and should not be considered WMDs (And before you say yes, consider that half the DU sites I found were Christian sites decrying the use of DU munitions, and we should be looking to our churches for moral guidance.)? Render opinions at the guestbook, since I am too dumb to have comment fields on my blog like some DIYers do.

Uranium double-post.
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:27 PDT

US/UN forces have used what many consider to be nuclear "dirty bombs" extensively in places such as Kosovo, Kuwait, and Iraq, with a total radiation dose on the order of 400 times more than that at Nagasaki in WWII.

What ??

When Rowena and Crouton invited me to see a performance of the San Francisco Mime Troupe in Dolores Park, I was expecting to see Charlie Chaplin look-alikes doing classics like The Invisible Box and The Invisible Rope. Instead, I witnessed a musical set in modern-day Iraq, with the only true mime tricks consisting of Dick Cheney doing an awesome Robot-On, Robot-Off set.

One of the central themes of the musical was the ten times greater cancer rate in affected areas, which I thought was a clever invention meant to make the US look evil. But in the end, they claimed that everything in the musical was true, except for the part about Condi having Dick Cheney's robot remote.

I looked around on the web and found out that it was indeed true that we had been exposing civilians abroad (as well as our own troops) to "depleted uranium." I have some comments about the details of this up on my work blog. One of my students came up to me after the radioactive decay lecture to tell me that he had found similar conclusions in a report he wrote for high school the previous semester.

Critical Mass and affirmative action?
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:39 PDT

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