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		<title>Pema Chödrön on Building a Stable Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When we build a house, we start by creating a stable foundation. Just so, when we wish to benefit others, we start by developing warmth or friendship for ourselves. It’s common, however, for people to have a distorted view of this friendliness and warmth. We’ll say, for instance, that we need to take care of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Almost) Daily Words of Wisdom from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shaheen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite newsletters is Carolyn Gimian&#8217;s &#8220;Ocean of Dharma.&#8221; You can sign up for it here and join nearly 10,000 others who receive jewels of wisdom from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche two or three times a week. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s, one I particularly liked:
Keep the Moth Out of the Flame
When you are trying to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s handpicked Panchen Lama &#8220;elected&#8221; Vice President of Buddhist group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monty McKeever</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Reincarnation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As reported by phayul.com:
Dharamsala, February 4 – The handpicked “11th Panchen Lama Gaincain Norbu” has been “elected” as one of the 25 vice presidents of the Buddhist Association of China on Wednesday, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the eighth national conference of the Buddhist Association of China in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bush films to premiere at RMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monty McKeever</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Rubin Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow night at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC the filmmaker John Bush (Vajra Sky Over Tibet) will be premiering two new dance films, Absence Presence and Dream On Me, featuring the choreography of Nadine Helstroffer. This screening will include a discussion and Q &#38; A with Bush, Helstroffer, and Buddhist Psychotherapist Michael Vincent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China warns Obama on Dalai Lama meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bad enough that U.S. companies went ahead and sold arms to Taiwan (drawing the threat of sanction from an offended China) but now President Obama plans to meet with China&#8217;s biggest bête noire, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. (His failure to do so previously raised some eyebrows among Tibet-watchers around the globe.)
Relations between China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.tricycle.com/blog/?p=1679</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daily Dharma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am busy from early in the morning until late at night. I am rarely alone. Where can I find a time and place to contemplate in silence?
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gelek Rimpoche on the Four Noble Truths</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monty McKeever</dc:creator>
		
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Tricycle’s first online video retreat is less than two weeks away!
On February 1st at 10am we will be posting the first of eight talks by Gelek Rimpoche on The Four Noble Truths.  One new talk will be added each week and will begin with a Q &#38; A session in which Rimpoche will answer the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Equanimity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Equanimity is of tremendous importance both in the practice and in everyday life. Generally we get either swept away by pleasant and enticing objects, or worked up into a great state of agitation when confronted by unpleasant, undesirable objects. This wild alternation of contraries is nearly universal among human beings. When we lack the ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tricycle Pilgrimage to Bhutan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tricycle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tricycle Pilgrimage to Bhutan
Tricycle Foundation is pleased to announce its first annual pilgrimage to Bhutan, beginning in Bangkok on February 24 through March 8, 2010.  A maximum of 20 pilgrims accompanied by leading Bhutanese Buddhist teachers will attend a traditional dance festival; visit temples and monasteries where Guru Rinpoche and other Buddhist saints meditated; witness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precious Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Ryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who are fond of retreats—writers, ecstatics, parents with young children—often comment on the silence such time away allows. Silence becomes something present, almost palpable. The task shifts from keeping the world at a safe decible distance to letting more of the world in. Thomas Aquinas said that beauty arrests motion. He meant, I think, [...]]]></description>
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