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		<title>When meditation is difficult</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meditation is neither difficult nor easy. Sometimes it feels difficult and sometimes if feels easy. I actually find meditations leading up to the full moon more difficult. And those following easier. Why is that? I&#8217;m not sure. Anyway, when we understand that difficult meditations can awaken us to our attachments they become a very interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gemini Full Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learned Audience, in this system of mine one Prajna produces eighty four thousand ways of wisdom, since there are that number of &#8216;defilements&#8217;, wisdom reveals itself, and will not be separated from the Essence of Mind. Those who understand this Dharma will be free from idle thoughts. To be free from being infatuated by one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving rise to bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been intending to write about right view, but other things keep popping up. In a way this post is about right view, but I think it&#8217;s maybe a bit different from focusing on delusion. Instead it&#8217;s about focusing on suffering. Personally, when I look back over the course of my life and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zen Hostage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if the word obsession is related to the latin word for hostage:- obses. It seems like it should be. Our attachments, vexations, let's call them obsessions, certainly keep our minds hostage.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/the-zen-hostage/</link>
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		<title>Non-attachment, the basis of anger.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manjusri asked Vimalakirti: What is the source of our body?]]></description>
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