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		<title>The Power of an Open Question - Deep Contentment</title>
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		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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The way we know things depends upon the mind, nothing more. Most of us have moments of deep contentment when we don&#8217;t feel a need to alter, express, run from, or invest some special meaning in our experience in any way. Deep contentment shows us that, at least momentarily, our habit of cherishing and protecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Talk and Reading in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of four talks for her Tricycle Retreat, Elizabeth says that standing on a street corner in Manhattan, she sees as many people in a moment as she might see in six months at home in Colorado. Well, lucky New Yorkers, she&#8217;s heading back your way! tricycle is proud to be the media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Minutes to Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Folk offers this five-minute journey to enlightenment:
How to Get Enlightened
What would I say if I had just five minutes to give comprehensive instructions for awakening?
You are unenlightened to the extent that you are embedded in your experience. You think that your experience is you. You must dis-embed. Do that by taking each aspect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweetcake Enso Art Exhibit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweetcake Enso is putting on a traveling art exhibition. There&#8217;s a list of confirmed venue on the website. And Here&#8217;s the press release, with a cool piece by one of the participating artists, Max Gimblett. The first call for submissions ended September 1:
In American culture Zen is often represented by the Enso, a calligraphic circle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debasing the Buddha: Indonesia Bans Offensive Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Mowe</dc:creator>
		
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At the end of July, hundreds of Indonesian Buddhists protested against a local branch of the French-owned chain restaurant Buddha Bar. The Anti-Buddha Bar Forum (FABB) organized the protest. As blogged about previously here, those demonstrations turned ugly. Well, despite FABB criticism from other Buddhist organizations, FABB efforts paid off: this week a district court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of an Open Question: Fork in the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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The purpose of practice is to habituate ourselves to openness. This means we need to understand reactive mind. How do we experience the difference between reacting and staying open?
At what point do we decide to go with the habitual tendencies of exaggeration and denial or try something new? Where is the fork in the road? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhism&#8217;s crumbling past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shaheen</dc:creator>
		
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Not to be an alarmist, but preserving Buddhism&#8217;s past is an increasingly challenging endeavor. And while the truth of impermanence is fundamental to the Buddhist teachiings, no one said it&#8217;s easy. Bamiyan was a heartbreaker, and recent news that the Chinese may blow up the ancient ruins of a newly discovered monastery in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Karmapa on the Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monty McKeever</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this interview in the Asia  Sentinel with Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one of the two young lamas recognized as the 17th Karmapa.  It is a great interview and I recommend reading the whole thing, but this passage in particular jumped out at me.
The distance between humans and the environment is becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Loy at the Tricycle Book Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Mowe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us Monday, September 20 at the Tricycle Book Club for the discussion of David Loy&#8217;s The World is Made of Stories. In this small book about big ideas, Loy attempts to tell the story of stories by engaging in a playful, energetic dialogue with wisdom quotations from a wide variety of sources. Everything that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the grid, into the mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Hiles</dc:creator>
		
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In today&#8217;s New York Times, Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, describes his experience returning to technology after a week-long Buddhist meditation retreat at Insight Meditation Society (IMS). Having spent his time at IMS &#8220;unplugged&#8221; from technology&#8212;Wright spent five hours of sitting meditation and five hours of walking meditaiton each day&#8212;upon [...]]]></description>
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