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	<title>The Poetry of Living Fully &#187; mindfulness</title>
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		<title>Dogen&#8217;s Death Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four and fifty years I&#8217;ve hung the sky with stars Now I leap through&#8211; What shattering! -Dogen (1200-1253)]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven, Hell, Equanimity, Superior Meditation and Hakuin Ekaku</title>
		<link>http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2012/01/27/heaven-hell-equanimity-superior-meditation-and-hakuin-ekaku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child. This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much [...]
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		<title>The Etymology of Pleasure and Pain (&#8216;Sukha&#8217; and &#8216;Duhkha&#8217; as Types of Wheels)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s The Bhagavad Gita&#8216;s Book VI Verse 32, using Winthrop Sargeant&#8217;s translation (by far the best available): He who sees equality in everything In the image of his own Self, Arjuna, Whether in pleasure or in pain, Is thought to be a supreme yogin. In the original sanskrit: atmaupamyena sarvatra samam pasyati yo &#8216;rjuna skham [...]
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		<title>Story of the Old Man at the Water Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brash young man watched a sage drawing water from the village well. Slowly, hand over hand, the old man pulled up the wooden bucket of water. After some time the young man left and returned with a pulley, and excitedly explained how to use it, and how easy it would be to draw water [...]
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		<title>To Go to Mountains Seeking Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the mountain seeking enlightenment. There was no enlightenment on the mountain. In desolation, I cried out and there came an echo. I shouted again. The echo came again. - Soen Nakagawa]]></description>
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		<title>Write Just Beyond the Edge of Your Expertise</title>
		<link>http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2011/09/18/write-just-beyond-the-edge-of-your-expertise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean paints what he sees and doesn&#8217;t try to make things up &#8212; it wouldn&#8217;t be as good. &#8211; Marty Avrett Making things up. Storytelling is a kind of lying, but a lying that arrives at truth in the telling. The difference between the true lie and the made up is that when one tells [...]
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		<title>Take an Online Writing Class at WritingImmersion.com</title>
		<link>http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2011/09/17/take-an-online-writing-class-at-writingimmersion-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bad News? Good News? Luck versus Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2011/09/13/bad-news-good-news-luck-versus-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<title>Wellness Immersion Retreats in Italy and the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Eros and the Erotics of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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