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		<title>Just what is an arhat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arhat, or Arahant in Pali, is a term you hear a lot in Buddhism. Someone who has achieved liberation. But what does it actually mean? Well the etymology is ambigous. The traditional school reports arhat as meaning: one who is worthy. But apparently, recent research suggests that it is cognate with sanskrit Arihan: one who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Samadhi the group meditation of the adepts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This from A Treatise on White Magic, pp 89-90 &#8220;As the man seeks to reach control of the mind, the soul in its turn becomes more actively aggressive. The work of the solar Angel has hitherto been largely in its own world and concerned with its relation to spirit, and with this the man, working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Astrology of the Path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been an astrologer many years ago, I think about the role of the planets as sign posts in treading the path. And if you&#8217;ve been following you&#8217;ll remember that I have Saturn going through the 12th house. Anyway, we discussed that then and this is now. Alice Bailey wrote an interesting work called Esoteric [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<title>Silent Illumination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not entirely sure why Japanese Zen split into the soto and rinzai sects. Auckland Zen Centre practises Integral Zen, which I don&#8217;t really know a lot about, but it&#8217;s an interesting thought. And then there&#8217;s the thought of meditation stages:- counting the breath, focusing on the single breath, and I guess focusing on nothing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A modern monkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need to look after our monkey while we seek enlightenment.]]></description>
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		<title>What is mindfulness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He who can see inaction in action, and inaction in action is the wisest among men.  He is a saint, even though he still acts.]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that we're already awake. How is it that we're not already awake?  A quick look into the rules of magic reveals the answer.]]></description>
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