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<description><![CDATA[     Anagarika eddie is a meditation teacher at the Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation Retreat Sanctuary and author of A Year to Enlightenment. His 30 years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Thervada Buddhist monk. He lived at Wat Pah Nanachat under Ajahn Chah, at Wat Pah Baan Taad under Ajahn Maha Boowa, and at Wat Pah Daan Wi Weg under Ajahn Tui.         He had been a postulant at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist monastery in northern California under Roshi Kennett; and a Theravada Buddhist anagarika at both Amaravati Monastery in the UK ... ]]></description>
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<title>The Essence of Buddhism</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:36:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Growing Old is Not for Sissies!" I remember this great bumper sticker making the rounds a few years ago. Unless life ends tragically, suddenly, we will all experience old age and the result of old age, which is death.]]></description>
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<title>The Satisfaction of Living Simply</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:32:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years ago I lived a complicated life. I had a Porsche, a beautiful wife, three kids, a Tudor home in a posh Cleveland suburb and all the bills and headaches to go with it. And even though I had it made, something always seemed to be missing no matter how good it got. Within two years of living this American dream, I found myself in sweltering 1981 Southeast Asia in the middle of the jungle in a 6' by 6' unfurnished hut (just a bare floor) surrounded by snakes, scorpions, and all kinds of mean critters that thought I was lunch.]]></description>
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<title>The Religious New Normal in America Will Not Be Religious!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Religion historically has meant reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, religious devotion, law, fixed beliefs, repression, and bondage. But this will not be the new normal in America. The new generation of Americans are too fiercely independent, they are free thinkers. Our youth are running from the organized religions of their early childhoods like fleas off a wet dog.]]></description>
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<title>The Absurdly Obvious Solution to Health Care</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:48:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You know, doctors used to make house calls, believe it or not. They would load their huge doctors bags into their Model T Fords and drive thirty miles one way on dirt roads to lance a boil for a bushel of apples. Of course, that doesn't happen now, the main reason being that huge doctors bags don't fit into Porsches. And what doctor in his right mind would subject his baby to a dirt road?]]></description>
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<title>Living in the Past?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:30:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's an old saying a young man has no past, so he drives fast cars to catch his future - and an old man has no future, so he sits in his rocking chair trying to hold on to his past. This has some truth to it. There comes a time when we get past the stage of reliving our past in actuality, and only relive it in memoirs. We either lack the energy, the money, or the interest to actually do it all over again. So we sit back and remember the good times. It's amazing how the mind erases the bad ones.]]></description>
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<title>Mindfulness Meditation - Free Health Care for You</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:25:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mindfulness meditation is free. There are no health insurance premiums, drug costs, or expensive therapies. And it works! But first you have to understand the authentic instructions, and secondly you must practice diligently. If you do this, mental and physical problems will melt away. Try it! How can you lose?]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Is the Son of God! The Buddha Was, Ho Hum, Merely a Man</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:06:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There have been occasions when I have been told that "Jesus is the Son of God and the Buddha was just a man, therefore, the Buddha is a false prophet." Okay, I respect everybody's freedom to voice their opinion. I also know how views and opinions are formed, and why they become so entrenched. We are, after all, merely a product of our experiences, environment, heritage, culture, intelligence, upbringing, education... and in Buddhism, our past lives and karma! However, if I remain silent in this matter, my silence might be mistakenly construed as agreement, and that would be disingenuous. So here is my opinion, for what it is worth.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Know What You Are?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:38:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trying to hold everything together, facing new challenges that blindside us every day, constantly trying to shore up the little man and woman behind out thoughts, filling our ego balloon with air even though it has a big hole in it and we must work harder and harder at creating this wonderful image of ourselves ... this is stress.]]></description>
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<title>The Ladder of Your Life - Which Rung Are You On?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:11:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If a ladder represents our life, the rungs of our ladder represent our breakthroughs. Have you had one lately?]]></description>
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<title>A Key to Enlightenment</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:22:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These Twelve Steps of Dependent Origination describes our lives. This is all there is to our lives - an endless grasping and pushing away of what we love and hate every day. The most amazing thing is that in our ignorance of what could be, we never tire of our mechanical existences, and crave to keep them going forever.]]></description>
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<title>Life - The Secret to Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:29:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Therefore, it becomes obvious that the secret of life, is undoubtedly removing the filter so everything flows quickly and easily through. This does not involve a method, nor exercises or theories, just observation of what is going on inside our heads.]]></description>
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<title>The Peacefulness of War</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:27:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You're driving home and suddenly other drivers are speeding by, passing on the shoulder, going through red lights. And you know something bad has happened.]]></description>
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<title>What's YOUR Goal?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:19:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are goals anyway? Even enlightened people have goals. When they have to pee, they look for a bathroom! And that's the reason for goals; to relieve discontent in one way or another, or to head off perceived discontent in the future.]]></description>
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<title>Let the Arrow Fly</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:27:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This little tale is about life, and how we look in all the wrong places for our contentment. A poor man and his wife lived in a small hut. Their one joy in life was giving food to a monk who would stop by their little hut every morning on his alms round. ]]></description>
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<title>After Armageddon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:37:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we look back through the smoke filled skies of a nuclear winter where all is gone except the few of us that happened to be vacationing in New Zealand, we may wonder how this ever came about. It may occur to us that America was hamstrung. No changes could be enacted anymore because the end game of a corrupt democracy is always gridlock.]]></description>
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<title>Two Faces of You</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:37:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Carl Jung called it our shadow side, the part of us that we hide from others. Whatever it is; it is that part of us we don't want others to know about. We pretend, and this instills guilt.]]></description>
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<title>You COULD Be a Techneck</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:55:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What has the internet replaced in your life? I mean, what were you doing before you got hooked? Watching NASCAR, Pro Wrestling and Roller Derby on three different TV sets simultaneously?]]></description>
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<title>You're Not Alone</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:06:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People who are truly spiritual tend toward quietness. Not too many saints and prophets of old were the life of the party with a lampshade on their inebriated heads! You might instead find them out in nature somewhere, on a mountain trail, at the ocean, or in a forest, quietly reflecting on the deeper meanings of life. Or unselfishly caring for sick kids in India. They sacrifice everything they are or could be for that loftiest of goals - direct communication and merging with the absolute.]]></description>
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<title>2 Steps to a Lazy Man's Diet</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:03:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why should anyone have to put up with rigorous discipline and asceticism when trying to lose a few pounds? Why not just do it naturally without even having to think about food, play with it, measure and weigh it, or obsess about it? Here are the two steps to the lazy man's diet:]]></description>
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<title>Relationships From Hell - Devil Mates!</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:58:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, it is love at first sight. But not really. It's really lust at first sight, tremendous lust, hot as a firecracker and so overwhelmingly seductive that one glance is enough to set you on a course to be with this person no matter the consequences. You can't fight it.]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Religion Working For You? Really? (A Fresh Approach)</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:54:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is there an approach to life that plainly, logically, and clearly appeals to common sense? A philosophical, psychological approach that people can relate to? If such an approach existed, it surely would have a universal appeal. No dogma that separates itself from other religions by putting up idealistic roadblocks such as, "My Savior/Good Book/beliefs are the only true ones, and therefore your beliefs will send you to hell!" Nothing that controlling.]]></description>
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<title>The Constant Flow of Change</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 10:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["All is impermanent." What a depressing thought, but only to an untrained, worldly mind. Impermanence is never lost, just a flow of change; a flow of change that is an ultimate truth and therefore an ultimate security.]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Religion Working For You? Really?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:38:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you say to someone, not of your religion, that "because your good book says it is true, therefore it must be true," don't you ever notice that the person, instead of falling down in worship, rolls their eyes? Do you smugly continue to be a "work in progress," and proud of it, justifying your careless actions by pointing out that sinners have no chance to improve themselves?... Convenient.]]></description>
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<title>Weapons of Least Distraction</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 08:27:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most powerful weapons in the world is compassion. The least powerful is control. The two are surely at odds with each other, and it certainly seems that power and control would trump wimpy compassion any old day. But in actuality, compassion, a weapon of least distraction, is not only one of the most powerful, but the weapon of lasting peace. And this is the secret of its power.]]></description>
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<title>How You Reincarnate</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:55:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Human beings go through an interesting process when reincarnating, a process that unless explained would probably go unnoticed. This article will explain the steps.]]></description>
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<title>The Big One</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:14:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe it has already happened to you. It doesn't happen to everyone. But those lives to which it happens are drastically changed. Changed for the better. When this happens, all the things that make life such a burden are magically lifted from one's shoulders resulting in a sudden, unexpected freedom that appears to come out of nowhere.]]></description>
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<title>H-B-I-T-S Syndrome - The Silent Killer</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4062872</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:05:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[H.B.I.T.S. is more widespread than originally thought, mainly because it goes unreported. The reason for this is that on the surface, it doesn't seem to be all that serious. But as a matter of record, H.B.I.T.S. could be called the silent killer.]]></description>
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<title>Running While Standing Still</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:54:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is it that we run from? What is it that takes up almost all of our waking moments? It must be very important, otherwise we wouldn't devote an entire lifetime trying to escape it.]]></description>
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<title>Creating Bullies</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:15:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first thing you want to do is scream at your kids. That makes them afraid and teaches them to become pushy themselves, connecting verbal abuse with authority and influence. (Never use compassion or loving kindness - that will make girlie men out of them).]]></description>
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<title>Like Mosquitoes Biting an Iron Ball</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4166286</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:12:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are not special beings standing upon the earth, we belong to it, we are up to our necks in it. And when these elements that we identify with as ourselves melt back into the earth to change into soil and then living beings again in the never ending cycle, only our illusions will continue. ]]></description>
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<title>See You in Eternity</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4166402</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:56:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about eternity? That's longer than a month, a lot longer. If an angel flew up to the top of a solid granite mountain once every hundred years and softly brushed a silk veil across it's top, the number of years required to wear that mountain down to the ground would be a drop in the bucket, compared to eternity.]]></description>
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<title>What Was My Life All About?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4166384</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:55:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why did we do this? Why did we continue to believe in Santa Claus long after our friends poked fun at us? What drove us to live such a fairy tale? ]]></description>
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<title>Dangerous Alliances</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:16:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Of course, most of us have seemingly innocent alliances that are common to ordinary folks, like our friends and relatives. But is this where the really dangerous alliances lie? How can a relationship with Auntie Bess and Uncle Bill be harmful for us? They are loving, warm, giving, and have encouraged and guided us throughout our lives. But is there a sinister aspect to their association with us?]]></description>
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<title>Freedom From Religion?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What faith or religion one belongs to, or no religion or faith, doesn't matter. But something else does. And without this something else, which has no relationship to any particular beliefs or non-beliefs, enlightenment is not possible. So what could this be, this universal requirement for enlightenment; this applicable-to-all proposition that can free humankind?]]></description>
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<title>Buddhism - Too Real For Americans?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:16:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Similar to Christianity, Buddhism has many branches. The original doctrine that the Buddha taught his monks is called the Theravada or the Teaching of the Elders, but this very deep teaching may be too strange and frightening for everyday Americans.]]></description>
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<title>What's Your Pleasure?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:19:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take a look at your life and see if it's not true that the pursuit of pleasure and happiness involves just about everything you do. From watching TV or playing on the internet, to working at a career in order to make money - so that you can spend it and be happy with the resulting pleasure or save it and be happy with the resulting pleasure of security.]]></description>
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<title>The Long Sleep</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:31:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eternity is a long time. If the atheists are correct, this instant of existence called a lifetime will fade into what could only be called the long, deep sleep from which we never wake up. Never. And never is a long time for us humans who cannot accept finality.]]></description>
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<title>I'm Right - You're Wrong</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:39:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's obvious that other people, when they disagree with us, are just plain wrong. And when we confront these kinds of people, our only alternative is to let them know in no uncertain terms that they are not only wrong, but apparently stupid for disagreeing with us about something so obviously apparent. It's unbelievable that people can be so messed up.]]></description>
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<title>Buy Farmland and Gold - Get Ready For Tough Times Ahead</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:37:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Marc Faber, the man who predicted the1987 stock market crash one week in advance, as well as being among only a few who accurately predicted the current financial meltdown, is now advising investors to move out into the countryside where it will be safer, and accumulate gold ("because it can be carried"). This new dire prediction of social and financial upheaval the likes of which we have never seen, was recently made in Tokyo.]]></description>
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<title>The Religious Versus Seekers of Truth</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Humanity has always looked to the transcendent, a human trait pursued in many ways. And who can really say which way is right or wrong regarding an inherent desire to transcend this earthly life when our time is up. The religious insist that they are right, and spiritual seekers say likewise.]]></description>
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<title>What Represents Truth to You?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:34:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mind is a drama queen with its tendency to enlarge things beyond their reality. This fraud is an attempt to provide psychological security, and it works fine most of the time, but when it all falls away, as it will someday, then the real truth comes out.]]></description>
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<title>Capitalism Versus Socialism</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:14:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's rather in these days to disagree rather than cooperate. Log-jamming I think is the term. It seems that instead of looking at what we are disagreeing with, we become caught up in the act of disagreement itself in order to win, in order to keep our large egos inflated. Rather than considering another's opinions we don't even hear them because of the constant din of our own noise. We have become, in effect, deaf.]]></description>
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<title>The Dawning of Depression</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:03:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are now 25 years old, making $50,000 and want to retire at age 65, keeping the same income, you will need about $2.5 million at retirement considering inflation. That means you will have to save about $70,000 a year or $6,000 a month, starting today. Fugetaboutit. Joe the plumber is doomed.]]></description>
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<title>Four Beautiful Human Qualities</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:53:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Loving kindness is a quality that acknowledges our commonality regardless of who we are or what we do. Kindness is the key word, as loving kindness has nothing to do with what we normally define as love. Love is understood usually at a personal level; we love our spouse, or we love our children, but loving kindness views spouses, children, and everyone else in the same light; that they, as well as ourselves, will experience certain things in life that are irrefutable, and it is the commonality of these experiences that bind us together.]]></description>
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<title>You Can Talk the Talk, But Can You Walk the Walk?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:51:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are two faces of religion; that which we profess, and that which we project. Our professed religion follows our scriptures and our beliefs and are what we declare to be our truths, our ideals.]]></description>
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<title>Three Veils of Hatred - Religion, Marriage, and Nationalism</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:20:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A veil hides something. When something is hidden, we can't see what it is or what it stands for. Therefore, when something is represented for something that it is not (and many times is opposite of what it represents), then we can say that it is veiled; it's real nature is hidden. Religion, marriage and nationalism are represented as good, wholesome values. But is this actually true?]]></description>
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<title>The Thing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:23:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So it would seem to me that if a person wishes to end all their problems in life, they would actively pursue this "thing" so that they would become free from the little itches and even the big glitches of life. All other remedies for our many problems would be as if we are taking a mild pain killer with the root disease untouched, only to flair up again and again to cause us pain.]]></description>
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<title>Your Last Moment - Are You Ready?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:11:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we don't face our last moment, when we put it off and think that there is plenty of time, we get careless about life, get involved in frivolous things that mean nothing in our last moment, even to the point of hurting others for the sake of our own selfish pleasure. We get reckless and overconfident; this is called ignorance and delusion.]]></description>
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<title>Were the Buddha and Christ Avatars?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:45:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But I believe that the Avatars slipped up a little and divulged some deeper teachings to their closest disciples, men and women who could grasp and carry forward the deeper message. Perhaps because of this, the Catholics have their contemplative saints and the Buddhists have their meditating monks.]]></description>
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<title>Alternatives For Millennium Kids</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:03:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mind recently commented that his own kids and their friends are a lot less materialistic than our generations were, and that numerous surveys show that Millennials don't want their jobs to interfere with their family or social life. He went on to say that, "Some say this is laziness, I tend to believe that Millennials have their priorities a little better aligned than their parents and grandparents."]]></description>
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<title>Something's Missing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:54:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We could laugh then, and life had a comfortable feeling about it. Our homes were warm and friendly places that weren't purchased in order to flip and make money. They were places in which to have children, to raise children, and to be there for our children as they ventured out into the world. And a familiar place in which to die. The mortgage was held by the local bank; we knew the manager and his family well.]]></description>
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<title>Avatar - Just a Movie, Or a Turning Point?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:35:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Occasionally a great film captures the undercurrent of our collective human psyche. When we historically look back at the movie, it becomes apparent that the film called attention to something that was stirring inside of us, yet unexpressed, and either the movie deliberately was produced to capture this subconscious undercurrent, or the undercurrent was so ripe that the first movie that touched on these subconscious urgings became an instant hit. Either way, Avatar is that kind of movie.]]></description>
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<title>Hurdling Through Our Lives</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Relaxing and enjoying life involves a philosophical outlook called equanimity. We have to see that one thing is not better than another. One person is neither superior nor lower in rank than another. We have to understand that, because that's the way it actually is, that's a fact whether we agree or not.]]></description>
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<title>What is the Most Important Thing in a Romantic Relationship?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:39:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's gotta be a millions of articles about relationships. Books, too. If you are thinking about writing a book, put "relationship" in the title and you will have agents beating down your door!]]></description>
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<title>How to Recognize a Saint If You Meet One on the Street</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:57:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As we read about these fourteen traits, we might think that we can become saintly too by simply practicing what saints do, however, it never quite works out that way. Mimicking secondhand or academic information never leads to an authentic shift in our basic behavior. And although we might convincingly pretend for awhile, what we really are will eventually come out, just as water seeks its own level.]]></description>
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<title>A True Story of Lust and Seduction - With a Twist!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:05:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty-six hundred years ago, Subbha the Buddhist nun was walking through a mango grove when a lustful young man blocked her path. Subbha the Nun: "What wrong have I done you that you stand in my way? It's not proper my friend that a man should touch a woman gone forth (Buddhist nun who has dedicated her life to finding enlightenment).]]></description>
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<title>Why Do We Get Angry When Someone Disagrees With Us?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:21:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fact is; it is more important to feel in control and superior than it is to ferret out the facts and come to logical conclusions. Why? Because our idea of self or ego, although false, must be constantly blown up like a balloon with a small hole in it. Otherwise, if our ego was permitted to diminish, which would mean that we became peaceful and loving, then we would see the reality of our vulnerability and weakness as a human being, which would far too devastating for anyone caught in the web of delusion that we call life.]]></description>
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<title>What We Fear Most</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:35:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not surprising that most people don't know the answer to this question, because although the answer is obvious, the obvious is many times looked past just as we never see a clear lens but only what is beyond it. And no, it isn't death that we fear most. We have rationalized that fear into eternal life with our religions, so death is not the most feared. As a matter of fact, most people, if you ask them if they fear death, will say, "No," Of course, when death is imminent, that could change.]]></description>
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<title>Measure Life in Inches, Not Milestones</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:28:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being present in every moment, along each inch of our way requires tremendous understanding; knowing that it all changes and that we cannot hold on to anything, yet in this very moment we have it all. Understanding that life will unleash its arrows that will find their marks in our hearts, but nevertheless this very moment, this inch along our way, always completes us.]]></description>
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<title>I Want More</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:48:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you? Why aren't you completely satisfied now? Or perhaps you are, but weren't six months ago. Or maybe you aren't now but were six months ago! What is it that you want more of?]]></description>
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<title>It's Okay to Fail</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:26:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Be that butterfly. Fold your wings and just "be" for a few precious moments in time. Nothing to accomplish now, no battles to fight, no points to make. Just be, quietly, peacefully, at ease with yourself, nobody is watching you or judging you. You can now, for a few moments, be a complete failure in the eyes of the world and no one will criticize you.]]></description>
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<title>Unusual Urges</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:59:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are no responses to our most serious questions. We might come up with an answer of some kind in our brain, but our heart always recognizes hype. After the pat answers are blown away by the reality that we face, a subtle awareness returns to haunt us; a recognition that we live only on the surface of something very deep, so deep that we can't seem to get our arms around it, and we desperately need to.]]></description>
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<title>Especially For the Lonely During the Holidays</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:18:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody, it seems, is out there having fun with family and friends, and here you are, alone, reading articles, desolate, despondent, filled with despair, hopeless, reaching out in urgent need of anyone who might listen to your forlorn longings in this joyous of seasons. Woe is you.]]></description>
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<title>Looking For Our Happiness in All the Wrong Places</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:30:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you are unhappy? Usually, you will try to change things so that you will become happy again. To put up with the unhappiness is unthinkable. A survey of political articles reaffirms this idea. Most reflect a very deep unhappiness with something or someone, with the gist of the article being to change either our leaders or our government so that we can be happy again.]]></description>
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<title>Two Different Worlds</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:56:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We live in the past by remembering who we are and what we were, and we live in the future by extending the "who" into what we hope are pleasurable type circumstances. But we don't live in each moment; we don't know how to do that. And because we don't know how to live in each moment, we live instead in the dreams of the past and the illusions of the future, but never in reality. Chances are, during our entire lifetime, we have never lived in the reality of the moment, not even once.]]></description>
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<title>Why Buddhism is a Peaceful Religion - Five Distinctions</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:51:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These distinctions are confined only to Buddhism, as far as I know, and as such may seem to be a separation from other religions. But when they are viewed in the context of sane, compassionate human development, where our values include loving and understanding each other, they can be applied universally to almost any religion that is the least bit open-minded.]]></description>
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<title>The Future of America - A Prophecy</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:52:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Big shifts already are occurring all over the world. Can you see them? We have a tendency to ignore things that are uncomfortable, hoping that they will somehow go away - until they smack us aside the head and we wonder why we never saw the train wreck coming.]]></description>
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<title>The Stardust That We Are</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But in that moment, and they are rare in our lives, perhaps our hearts take an turn that somehow changes us, and suddenly we know, in our hearts of hearts, that the stars and us are one. We are but the dust of stars sprinkled on the earth to dance awhile before we return to our destiny.]]></description>
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<title>Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you look, not necessarily at what Christ said but the life that he led as depicted in the Bible - He was not a family man. Nor was He a businessman, or a politician, or nationalistic. All of that Old Testament stuff; procreation, obedience, commandments is for a different audience, an audience that was not capable of understanding for themselves and had to be told what to do by an authority figure.]]></description>
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<title>The Less We Have, The Happier We Become</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3269444</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:34:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Americans are becoming cheerier even though they have lost economically, and the truth is; the less we have, the less we have to worry about, and the less we worry, the more time we have to see beauty of trees, and the wonder of the universe and contemplate our part in it. Without possessions getting in our way, we become human beings again.]]></description>
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<title>Melt Down!</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3250977</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:51:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can you feel it? It's almost palpable, a feeling that permeates everything, hanging in the air like an impeding thunderstorm. Silent, ominous, dangerous, frightening and yet at the same time exciting and alive, and pregnant with possibility. It all began on a sunny day in 1991. We were just emerging from a supposedly not too serious recession and everything appeared to be rosy again.]]></description>
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<title>The Curious and Fascinating Process of Dying</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:14:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we are dying and begin to lose what is commonly referred to as consciousness, many times we see visions that arise independently of conscious thinking. These are the result of how we lived our lives. We might see fearful beings chasing us if our life has been filled with hatred. Or, if our life has been filled with love, we may see our departed family members welcoming us, or hear divine music or see divine landscapes too beautiful for description. The dying may utter words like, "I see beautiful people and beautiful gardens, and I hear beautiful music", or they may converse with the departed friends and relatives that they see.]]></description>
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<title>What Silent Prayer Is, and Isn't</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:20:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we think about prayer, what comes to mind is some kind of request or solicitation of God. Maybe we are ill and ask to get better, or ask forgiveness, or maybe a little help with the lottery. These are the kinds of prayers that we mostly engage in. We might also repeat a mantra, for example, the "Our Father," or Hail Mary" as an act of devotion or contrition. Then there are the holy thoughts about God, heaven, the saints and Jesus as we sit quietly.]]></description>
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<title>Why Should We Pray Silently?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:17:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Silent prayer, therefore, addresses the need to open up to that which is beyond our small self and really become Christlike ourselves. If we adhere to the original Church father's doctrines and rendition of the gospels, there is really nothing we can do to proactively change ourselves except to be perpetual works in progress and sinners who have no chance of ever becoming more than that. Subsequently, we are forced to entirely depend upon the Church for our final salvation. Thomas claims that Jesus never taught this kind of thing; that all of us have the potential to become sons and daughters of God right here, right now, in this lifetime.]]></description>
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<title>Why Are Americans So Angry?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:28:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So what can we fix? America, I believe, is waking up to the fact that we can no longer fix anything. Like gluing together a model airplane that increasingly disintegrates with each flight, pretty soon there are no parts left to glue.]]></description>
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<title>Extremist Christians, Muslims, and Jews - A Common Denominator of Violence</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:55:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fundamentalist wings of Middle Eastern religions seem to have one thing in common - violence. All born from the same founder, Abraham, they appear to have a particularly destructive way of relating to anyone who doesn't believe as they do, or who refuses to follow their customs.]]></description>
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<title>WARNING - Do Not Take This As Financial Advice</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3171760</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:12:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The recent upturn in some of the indicators and the stock market is because of stimulus and businesses cutting expenses. This won't last. There is no stimulus left and nowhere else to cut except perhaps to go completely out of business and sell the assets - if you can find a buyer.]]></description>
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<title>The Realities of 2012</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:34:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As with most serious problems in our country, only a crisis of major proportions generates action. By the time action is taken, however, it is always a day late and a dollar short. This results in bad judgment and further serious consequences. But this time it's going to be 2012, the end of our world as we know it. All of the following will not happen by 2012. ]]></description>
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<title>Is Conflict an Inherent Factor of Religion?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:34:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult areas to get past in human relations is the idea that "my" religion or ideal is Truth and yours isn't. When someone says to you that your beliefs are all wet compared to his or hers, how does that make you feel? Historically, it has made people feel so bad that they have killed each other. This is not good.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Fall For These Three Fallacious Debating Tactics</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3138188</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:05:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These are three of the most common underhanded tactics used in debates. They come into play as an attempted deflection from the main argument that your opponent is usually losing and can no longer argue intelligently. If you watch out for them and keep bringing your opponent back to the original premise of the debate, your opponent will have no choice but to discuss the actual facts of the argument instead of trying to wiggle out of them.]]></description>
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<title>A Different Way to Live</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3138162</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:05:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The way that we have been living is called the way of least resistance. This way involves emotionally and logically going after what we believe will make us happy. For the vast majority of us, this usually includes a career, a partner, then a house, cars, furniture, kids, college tuition, grandkids - you get the picture.]]></description>
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<title>How to End Stressful Relationships</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3130419</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3130419</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:04:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stress in our relationships is something that we can no longer avoid. At one time we could keep it under control, but now that it is so difficult to make ends meet and to just plain survive, the stress can become unbearable.]]></description>
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<title>Locating God</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3124993</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3124993</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:04:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hello, God? Are you there? Hello. Are you listening? I know; you have a gazillion other things to do and billions of people to keep happy just here on earth, let alone all the people on all the planets around all the billions of stars in just our small galaxy.]]></description>
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<title>Where We Are All Headed</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3124488</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:53:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yep, we are all headed for bankruptcy. The housing market is not going to come back, and neither are jobs. That is all over with. We're done, and as we move toward 2012, it will worsen.]]></description>
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<title>Why Doesn't God Come Down and Just Say Hello?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3112083</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:14:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Well. Why doesn't he, or she? I guess that's the first problem, one of gender. The Bible is gender blind, I mean Adam has all of his ribs but somehow his wife was created out of one of them instead of out of the earth from which Adam was created. And another question, If Adam and Eve had three sons (no daughters), hmmm, who had sex with whom to keep things going, so to speak? ]]></description>
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<title>Living Life Unconsciously</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3109261</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3109261</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:31:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you feel at times that you are just going through the motions, living life unconsciously? Did you know that this feeling is actually close to spirituality, more so than being entirely and endlessly enthralled with life?]]></description>
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<title>Making Smaller Footprints</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3062887</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:02:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a knack for keeping footprints small, even in the midst of a busy life. If your wants are small, if you can get by with little and still be happy, then the footprints begin to shrink. Wanting and craving for things and experiences so that we don't become bored is what causes "Big Foot" footprints! Whatever you buy, gasoline or big screen TVs, they set into motion a string of footprints, from industrial pollution to financing terrorism.]]></description>
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<title>So Who Invented God Anyway?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:19:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we look back through antiquity it all gets a little wonky, but there seems to be a consensus that Zoroaster, from Iran/Pakistan, invented God. As a matter of fact, many of the middle eastern religions such as Judaism and Christianity can trace their roots directly back to this man. Even his pictures -- pale face, brown beard, looking up toward heaven, resembles very closely the pictures representing Christ these days.]]></description>
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<title>Conservatives Have a Good Reason to Be Frustrated</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3017332</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:42:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you ask a Conservative what's wrong, especially a fringe conservative who recently has fallen into vitriol and bitter criticism of each and every small move the president makes, he or she might insist that everything is Obama's fault. If Obama would only let things alone instead of stirring things up everything will be great just as it has been for the last thirty years. But it's not Obama's fault. The conservative movement's angst has much deeper roots.]]></description>
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<title>Meditation - What's the Point?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:37:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In life, two things separate successful people from ordinary people. People with no college degrees or credentials whatsoever have made it to the highest ranks of corporate America, and if you look carefully at their attributes, you will find these two things standing out head and shoulders above anything that they have learned in the past. Creativity enables them to see everything anew and therefore not become bogged down in in old concepts and stale solutions.]]></description>
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<title>Dropouts and the American Dream</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:49:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to CNN Money, the high school dropout rate is very high, as high as 22% in Alabama, and of those who are able to finish high school, only 27% nationally go on to finish college. This means that there will be lots of people in the $8.00 to $10.00 an hour salary bracket for years to come trying to raise families like everyone else and have some kind of a life, maybe even a little money left over for the kids at Christmas.]]></description>
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<title>Spiraling Toward Oblivion</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:24:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Where is the significance in anything that we do; it all passes so quickly into anonymity. Yet, each and everything that we do seems so important. Is it really? Or is it that we have to justify our existence by our accomplishments, rather than simply living and eating and procreating as the White tailed deer do. What is it that drives us to live these complicated, harried lives when we could as easily lay back and let the world go by?]]></description>
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<title>Nothing Matters</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:47:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know from scientific radioactivity studies of the Earth and Sun that our solar system probably formed about 4.5 billions years ago, which means that the Universe must be at least twice that old and probably older, maybe twenty billion years or so. Therefore, whatever we do for posterity isn't going to matter much in light of the huge expanse of time and space that is a fact in front of us every star-lit night. To think otherwise would be more than folly; it would border on arrogance and conceit regarding our place in this universe, which is no more than an insignificant speck of dust.]]></description>
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<title>Who in the World is Going to Finance the US?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:43:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The FDIC is now considering asking large banks for loans because it is broke - after only 94 bank failures (there are hundreds on its danger list). So how safe is our money? I'm afraid that our greed and thirst for easy money did us in this time. The excesses on unregulated Wall Street, the speculation, dishonesty, the instigation and sale of bad mortgages all over the world for the last eight years has caused a crisis that isn't going away anytime soon.]]></description>
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<title>Trying to Simplify Your Life With a Complicated Mind?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:21:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Mind is the forerunner of all things," a wise person once said, and this is very true. If your mind is filled with all kinds of words, thoughts, emotions, possessions, worries and concerns, and you fill it even more by trying to figure out how to simplify your life, then what happens is you find yourself being disingenuous, and not sincerely simplifying your life at all. The wants and desires are still there, only temporarily submerged by a new idea (I must simplify my life!) but this new idea will not hold because the idea was from the surface consciousness, or logical part of the mind.]]></description>
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<title>Are We Dealt Our Hand in Life at Random? (Karma and Its Results)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:13:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Due to having performed and completed such kammas, on the dissolution of the body, after death, he reappears in a state of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell. If, on the dissolution of the body, after death, instead of his reappearing in a state of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell, he comes to the human state, he is short-lived wherever he is reborn. This is the way that leads to short life, that is to say, to be a killer of living beings, murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.]]></description>
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<title>Who Are You? Don't Answer Too Quickly!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:07:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before you answer too quickly with names, titles, party affiliations, physical attributes, gender and job titles, go a little deeper and see who you really are. You can begin by describing yourself in a different manner than you usually do.]]></description>
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<title>Evolution of Religion - Where Are You? Six Steps</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:04:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These six major steps weave in and around each other, and there are many others, all revealing a transition between materiality consciousness and heightened consciousness, or between an outward emphasis (thinking, remembering, body and mind), and an inward emphasis (the replacing of thought and memory by a spiritual fullness devoid of body and mind). Therefore, the materially minded, dependent upon thinking and memory, and believing strongly in body and mind, will not be able to relate, from an experiential standpoint, to the heightened mind.]]></description>
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<title>Three Warning Signs That Our Country is in Real Trouble</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:33:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Countries and systems don't fail overnight. There are warning signs. Red flags precede any kind of a decline. Usually, these warning signs are dismissed as temporary obstacles on the road to unending success as we go whistling past the graveyard. Until one day the bottom falls out without any apparent warning. ]]></description>
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<title>Health Care Was Just a Warm Up - Here Comes Immigration!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Picture this: You live on a rural Texas ranch. In the middle of the night, there is a knock on the door. You open it. Standing before you is a young woman in tears, an unconscious baby in her arms. "Help me. My baby is Dying." "Are you legal?" You ask.]]></description>
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