Who’s your Daddy?
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Spirituality | 8 Comments »Luke Skywalker loses his mother moments after his birth, and, raised by Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, thinks himself an orphan. Dorothy Gale (in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is an orphan raised by Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. Peter Parker, ...
WisdomReading is back!
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Site log / Geek, Spirituality | 2 Comments »After a seven-month hiatus, WisdomReading is back. It's now in blog / comment format. If you're interested in reading any or all of these key Scriptures with us (The New Testament, The Gospel of Thomas, The Dhammapada, The Upanishads, The ...
I resolve…
Monday, January 1st, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Language, Mind, My Life | 13 Comments »Not to assume I know who I am. Yes, there's other things, too, relating to exercise, meditation, etc. All the usual stuff. And, I made the "guilt resolutions" very, very light... There's a reasonable chance I can keep them. But I ...
WisdomReading, 2006
Sunday, January 8th, 2006 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts | Comments OffWell, there was some interest in my reading schedule, so I created a Yahoo! group, WisdomReading, so we can go through these books together and discuss them. We start on January 10, and will read through the entire New Testament, most ...
Lectiodivina, 2006
Saturday, December 31st, 2005 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts | Comments OffMy friend Darrell Grizzle has created a Yahoo! Group which will be reading the entire Bible through in 2006, including the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books. The group is Lectiodivina and you can join just by clicking the link and following the instructions. ...
Superb Translation of Thomas
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Books, Spirituality | Comments OffI just came across the perfect translation of The Gospel of Thomas. It's The Gospel of Thomas: the Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus, by Jean-Yves LeLoup, translated by Joseph Rowe. This is a double translation. LeLoup translated the gospel into French and ...
City Zen Citizen
Friday, March 11th, 2005 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Spirituality | Comments OffMy teacher made the observation that citizen can be divided into city Zen. He stressed the importance of being able to find stillness within, not just in the special environments and times we occasionally set aside for that, such as ...