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	<title>Blending Zen &#187; ScottyDoo</title>
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		<title>What I Learned From a Ladybug</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2009/05/01/what-i-learned-from-a-ladybug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attention]]></category>
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Photo courtesy of jody9
While at work the other day I encountered a couple of ladybugs wandering on top of the sheets of material that had just arrived.   My first instinct was to just flick them off and continue on with what I was doing.  As I got closer and was about to flick one away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Lousy World &#8211; Pema Chodron</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2009/03/14/this-lousy-world-pema-chodron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pema tells us how our suffering inclines us to blame others and the external world rather than change our relationship with our suffering by wearing leather shoes.]]></description>
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		<title>What Truly Remains?</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2009/01/07/what-truly-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Koans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treeleaf member Aswini posted some of my blog post on the forum and equated it to his own life.  I was interested to see what the responses would be.  Jundo posted a whopper of a question in response.  One that I&#8217;ll be meditating on for what I imagine to be a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Struggles &amp; Inner Demons</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/12/28/silent-struggles-inner-demons/</link>
		<comments>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/12/28/silent-struggles-inner-demons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dukkha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frustration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been 2 months since I&#8217;ve written a post.  I&#8217;ve published a few things after my last one, but nothing that was written by me.  There are times that I post articles and links because I truly want to share something that I enjoyed, but I think at times I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Treasures of Tibet</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/29/lost-treasures-of-tibet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mustang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have some time to spare, here&#8217;s an episode of NOVA I really enjoyed about restoring the art work in some of the old and damaged monasteries in Mustang (moo-stahng). Mustang is also known as a &#8220;Tibet outside the Tibetan Border&#8221; for it survived the Chinese invasion of 1951 and hence it fosters the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My God Can Beat Up Your God!</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/27/my-god-can-beat-up-your-god/</link>
		<comments>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/27/my-god-can-beat-up-your-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>

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		<title>The Yoga of Christ</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/26/the-yoga-of-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/26/the-yoga-of-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has  been a long overdue post. My apologies.  This is part two to Philip G. McLemore&#8217;s previous article titled Mormon Mantras: A Journey of Spiritual Transformation from Sunstone Magazine.
Like the last one, this is a long read, about 16 pages, but again, well worth it. In this one he goes more in depth about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dharma of Each Other</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/24/the-dharma-of-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Buddhist teacher, author and founder of the Upaya Zen Centre, Roshi Joan Halifax has dedicated her life to service.  Christopher Mccann listens to her stories.
Photo by: Meridel Rubenstein
I am sitting with Roshi Joan Halifax. She is propped up on pillows, her eyes steady and deep despite the pain in her body. She has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious Awakening of the Three Jewels</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/20/glorious-awakening-of-the-three-jewels/</link>
		<comments>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/20/glorious-awakening-of-the-three-jewels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodhisattva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Jewels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday October 19, 2008 was a very special day for me.  On this day Lopon Barbara of the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Prescott, AZ came to town for a day of Dharma.  Our little Sangha had more attendance on this day than it has in awhile, which is not surprising when the teacher comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Action Day 2008: Nourishing Awareness</title>
		<link>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-nourishing-awareness/</link>
		<comments>http://blendingzen.org/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-nourishing-awareness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Master Teachings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nourishing Awareness
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk and poet born in central Vietnam, is a Leader of the social action movement known as Engaged Buddhism. He was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr. In &#8220;Peace Is Every Step,&#8221; he presents a meditation which helps North Americans and Europeans to [...]]]></description>
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