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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>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>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/frogs-and-kings/</link>
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		<title>More difficulties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something else I thought of about the benefit of difficult meditations is that by keeping on sitting through them and bringing the mind back to attention of awareness or attention of the breath, you are building an incredibly valuable skill. What you are doing is telling your mind that whatever you are experiencing mindfulness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sutras of Patanjali &#8211; Book IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I should finish this off. So today is the fourth section from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali today. Part 3 focused on the results of union. Part 4 focuses on illumination. The higher and lower siddhis (or powers) are gained by incarnation, or by drugs, words of power, intense desire or by meditation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/sutras-of-patanjali-book-iv/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/when-meditation-is-difficult/</link>
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		<title>Another look at Saturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Saturn lately; probably because I&#8217;ve got Saturn transiting through the 12th house. And now it&#8217;s working its way towards Venus, which is easily arguably my chart ruler. Saturn represents structure, boundaries and limitations. Psychologically speaking it represents the ego, not as some central point of I, but as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/another-look-at-saturn/</link>
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		<title>Supporting mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in attention, judgment, planning, impulse control, execution and empathy. Is this related to what buddhists call mindfulness? I think it is. Alcohol and drugs harm this part of the brain, which is why perhaps you often find injunctions to not drink or take drugs. On the other hand, from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/supporting-mindfulness/</link>
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		<title>Supporting meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The esoteric wisdom talks about how the body is a reflection of the mind, which runs counter to our Western point of view. The West&#8217;s best view is that the mind and brain can&#8217;t be separated. Personally, I tend towards the esoteric point of view; I always have. There&#8217;s been a whole lot of evidence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/supporting-meditation/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/gemini-full-moon/</link>
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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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