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	<title>Just So&#187; Shin Shau</title>
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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>Back to basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we don't realise our nature, we are bound in karma]]></description>
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		<title>Dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight while meditating I was reminded of Xin Shao. Our body is a Bodhi-Tree, And our mind a mirror bright. Carefully we wipe them hour by hour, And let no dust alight. And Hui Neng&#8217;s response was so brilliant. There is no Bodhi-tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright, Since all is void, Where can [...]]]></description>
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