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	<title>Just So&#187; emptiness</title>
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		<title>A chain of conditioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been interested in my great great grandfather. I think it was from him that I inherited rather an old etymological dictionary that I consumed as a boy. I remember at about the age of 8 writing out all of the germanic verbs that I found in it. He was first president of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frogs and kings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And I&#8217;ve got an emptiness deep inside and I&#8217;ve tried but it won&#8217;t let me go. as Neil Diamond&#8217;s song about the frog who became a king goes. Not even becoming a king helped the protagonist with this one. And why is that? Because it seems to me the core of our being is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disappearing, reappearing Empty in the air Depending on water, earth and sun Yet thinking separate and forever They weep Unable to hold the other clouds If only they knew they were the sky And clouds]]></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>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/silent-illumination/</link>
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		<title>Nothing is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing into my mind, I wipe the floor. Grasping the moment, I read sutras.]]></description>
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		<title>Not so interesting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really notes to myself this time. I just don't want to lose these thoughts over the next while, even though I know this is being read. And even though thoughts are themselves impermanent and arise within emptiness. So, I apologise if this is a bit boring. After all it's in my blog and it should be interesting. What is this addiction to interesting anyway?]]></description>
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		<title>Alaya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was dark with a diffused light, shining within the darkness, like the fog on the manukau in the morning. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness of Sunyata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Precepts of Manjusri to Tsong-kha-pa]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Sopranos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The result of not letting stuff go]]></description>
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