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		<title>Just what is an arhat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arhat, or Arahant in Pali, is a term you hear a lot in Buddhism. Someone who has achieved liberation. But what does it actually mean? Well the etymology is ambigous. The traditional school reports arhat as meaning: one who is worthy. But apparently, recent research suggests that it is cognate with sanskrit Arihan: one who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stumbling along the path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because we&#8217;ve had an awakening of sorts doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;ve been transfigured. It&#8217;s a long journey. In astrological symbolism we reverse the wheel in Libra, transform the emotional nature in Scorpio, silence our thoughts in Sagittarius and become transfigured in Capricorn. I think people misunderstand the concept of sudden enlightenment. Satori itself is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/stumbling-along-the-path/</link>
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		<title>Life is not two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking of practicing in order to look for the Way, you will only get farther and farther away from it.  It is as if, while walking the Way and being right in the middle of it, you start looking around for it, wondering where it is.]]></description>
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		<title>More brain matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a Zen master the alpha blocking produced by the first noise lasts only two seconds. If the noise is repeated at 15 second intervals, we find that in the normal subject there is virtually no alpha blocking remaining by the fifth successive noise.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/more-brain-matter/</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>The Great Doubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond pleasure and pain what do we know?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/the-great-doubt/</link>
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		<title>My deluded cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My cat is an illusion.]]></description>
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		<title>God is Nothing Special</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up in smoke]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/god-is-nothing-special/</link>
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		<title>What is mindfulness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He who can see inaction in action, and inaction in action is the wisest among men.  He is a saint, even though he still acts.]]></description>
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		<title>Enlightenment is scientific</title>
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