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	<title>Just So&#187; Diamond Sutra</title>
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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>
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		<title>Taming the bull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this taming, seems to be about getting some distance on the mind; the kind of distance where thoughts are seen to be external, which is I guess glimpsing the bull. Perhaps distance should be called spaciousness. Thoughts arise within a much wider space than the thoughts themselves. And because of that distance there is a measure of control, which seems to be no control at all, because when there is control it is really thoughts controlling
thoughts. Call this wider space presence.]]></description>
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		<title>Zen before Buddha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/pictures/celtic-zen.jpg">In the Diamond Sutra, the Buddha recounts to Subhuti, "I remember the infinitely remote past before Dipankara Buddha. There were 84,000 myriads of multimillions of Buddhas and to all these I made offerings."]]></description>
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		<title>Subhuti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subhuti sends me back to Metta]]></description>
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