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		<title>Life is not two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking of practicing in order to look for the Way, you will only get farther and farther away from it.  It is as if, while walking the Way and being right in the middle of it, you start looking around for it, wondering where it is.]]></description>
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		<title>Hercules in Sagittarius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the story of Hercules in Sagittarius; it is the story of the Stymphalian birds.  The birds had migrated to Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia to escape a pack of wolves. in 1987 Swiss ornithologist Michael Desfayes suggested that they may actually have been based upon a real (and harmless) bird, the bald ibis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation by sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of products out there that claim to work on the brain to product deepened meditation or enlightenment.  One came in my mailbox yesterday claiming <q>Discover how to meditate deeper than a zen monk in just five minutes - without years of practice, or hours of boring meditation CDs - by using a secret shortcut you can't find anywhere else.</q>  How do they promise to achieve this?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-by-sound/</link>
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		<title>Controlling likes and dislikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first read Unlimited Power years ago, it struck me that likes and dislikes are really part of the machine. What I mean by that is that the personality is really an automaton. Yet we continue to identify with the personality.

Assagioli, if I remember rightly, once defined neurosis as behaviour that&#8217;s no longer appropriate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/controlling-likes-dislikes/</link>
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		<title>More brain matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a Zen master the alpha blocking produced by the first noise lasts only two seconds. If the noise is repeated at 15 second intervals, we find that in the normal subject there is virtually no alpha blocking remaining by the fifth successive noise.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/more-brain-matter/</link>
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		<title>Seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/">Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.</a> Yoffe talks about how the brain is hard-wired to seek. A little while ago, maybe in a some somewhat esoteric post, I addressed non-Seeking.  But what's interesting in this article is that the author suggests that we need to give the brain a rest from seeking.  Again I think science has found a reflection of spiritual reality in the material form.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/seeking/</link>
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		<title>Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relationship to thought has fundamentally changed.  Thought is like a web that vanishes for a moment or longer.  Thought and desire and body are all similar.  Sometimes useful, sometimes just stuff, they emerge perhaps from the same space.  What is here other than being here?  Putting it that way the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/thought/</link>
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		<title>Non seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many ways of approaching non-attachment.  Non-seeking is one that I&#8217;ve been working with lately.  After all, seeking is not being here in the present moment.  It&#8217;s about letting go of thinking, desire and one&#8217;s body to the present moment.  I think it was Joshu who made an interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/non-seeking/</link>
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		<title>Saturn transiting the 12th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had Saturn going through my 12th house since about the end of 2007.  Although it finally made its entry mid 2008.  And it&#8217;s going to persist there until about the end of 2011.  That&#8217;s a four year transit.
At the beginning of the transit I started doing psychosynthesis counselling.  Saturn through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/saturn-transiting-the-12th/</link>
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		<title>Enlightenment Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always interesting looking up Google statistics on who&#8217;s searching what.  I thought I&#8217;d look up enlightenment, to see just how much people were interested. But it seemed the results might be clouded.  The news headlines seemed to have nothing to do with the meaning of enlightenment as I intended.


OK, I thought to [...]]]></description>
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