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		<title>Meditation as Experimentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been steeped in reading and writing lately. I just finished teaching a class on the History of Modern Philosophy, I am preparing to teach a class on issues relating to Freedom and Authority, and I am working on a seminary paper that is about the word &#8216;sutra&#8217; in the Platform Sutra. At times, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=918&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On a Change of Consciousness and Contemporary Protest Movements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From what I gather, there is a change of consciousness coming about. But this is not mysterious metaphysics! It just everyday people waking up to the fact they are responsible for their actions and lack of them, that they can change their patterns of behavior, and that once this is done great change can result. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=907&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannot and Do not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my teachers, Haju Sunim, would often reply to our habitual stories about what kept us from practicing: It is not that you cannot, it is that you do not. This is both refreshing and humbling. It is refreshing because if we simply do not do it, then we can easily change that by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=902&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the Cult of &#8220;Being in the Moment&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kusa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t be deceived by spiritual leaders And their practices of being in the moment. Sitting on the cushion, watching your breath, Eating take-out in your car, late for work, Drinking fresh brewed tea in noble silence, Walking with ten thousand sounds in your ears, Letting plans come and go, Being ripped apart from the anxiety [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=895&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zen is Difficult and Dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kusa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a theme I mentioned in my last post &#8211; working with uncomfortable practice &#8211; I just read &#8220;Zen Practice is Difficult and Dangerous&#8221; over at Huffington Post by Rev. Zesho Susan O&#8217;Connell at San Francisco Zen Center. (Thanks to Brad Warner over at Hardcore Zen for linking to this article.) I suggest giving it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=889&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Comfortable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our summer meetings back in July, Ven. Samu Sunim instructed us: Don&#8217;t get comfortable in your practice. When you get comfortable, your training dies! Practice dies! The specific context was about being frugal and efficient, especially in one&#8217;s use of natural resources. His remarks were prompted by our morning practice session. It was humid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=884&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diamond Gathas, Summer Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kusa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello!  May this post find you at ease or with a friend nearby to help you through.  Sometimes sitting, sometimes going to a cheap summer movie.  Whatever your poison, whatever your antidote.  May you take up your practice with the fierceness and compassion of a Buddha! I am coming close to summer retreat and student [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=869&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dhammapada, Stanza 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 06:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Version 1: The quivering, wavering mind, Hard to guard, hard to check, The sagacious one makes straight, Like a fletcher, an arrow shaft. Version 2: Quivering, wavering, hard to guard, to hold in check: the mind. The sage makes it straight — like a fletcher, the shaft of an arrow. Version 3: Just as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=859&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zen Master T&#8217;aego and the Diamond Sutra</title>
		<link>http://withoutbounds.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/zen-master-taego-and-the-diamond-sutra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kusa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T&#8217;aego was a Zen Master from Korea.  He was born in 1301 and died in 1382.  His collected sayings are like cracks of thunder in the night.  If you are asleep, they will startle you. One of the practices in the Korean tradition of Buddhism is hwadu practice.  It is similar to other koan practices, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=851&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Talks: The Teacher and the Diamond Sutra (Part III)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while!  Here is the final post to a small series I was writing on Dharma Talks.  The posts were inspired by my reading of the Diamond Sutra, so it is fitting that this one brings His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a verse from the Diamond Sutra together! How should a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withoutbounds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12094250&amp;post=845&amp;subd=withoutbounds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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