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		<title>The truth is immediately visible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is taken from the Anguttara Nikâya &#8220;It is said, Master Gotama, &#8216;The Dhamma is directly visible.&#8217; In what way, Master Gotama, is the Dhamma directly visible, immediate, inviting one to come and see, worthy of application, to be personally experienced by the wise?&#8221; &#8220;When, brahmin, a person is impassioned with lust (or desire for [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/giving-rise-to-bliss/</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 answer seems so obvious. Yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/thought/</link>
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		<title>What is awake?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How did the illusion arise?  Was it with the birth of language? What about reincarnation? Do these questions even really matter?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/what-is-awake/</link>
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		<title>Drama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is liberation the freedom from the story that we are telling ourselves?]]></description>
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