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		<title>When less is more</title>
		<link>http://apricot468.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/when-less-is-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s too easy to decide that more things will make us happy or solve our problems (when the opposite often happens).  I think most of us know this but don’t consider it when we need it most.  For that reason I have decided to buy nothing I don’t actually need or can obtain without making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apricot468.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474635&amp;post=6&amp;subd=apricot468&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It’s too easy to decide that more things will make us happy or solve our problems (when the opposite often happens).<span>  </span>I think most of us know this but don’t consider it when we need it most.<span>  </span>For that reason I have decided to buy nothing I don’t actually need or can obtain without making a purchase of a (particularly new) item.<span>  </span>This is a small gesture but will keep me mindful that I am neither separate from the world nor do I show compassion to others by using resources they need more than I do.</span></p>
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		<title>Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita perceives that all five skandhas are empty and is saved from all suffering and distress. Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. That which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. Shariputra, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apricot468.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474635&amp;post=5&amp;subd=apricot468&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:8pt;">when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita<br />
perceives that all five skandhas are empty<br />
and is saved from all suffering and distress.</span></p>
<p><span>Shariputra,<br />
form does not differ from emptiness,<br />
emptiness does not differ from form.<br />
That which is form is emptiness,<br />
that which is emptiness form. </span></p>
<p><span>The same is true of feelings,<br />
perceptions, impulses, consciousness. </span></p>
<p><span>Shariputra,<br />
all dharmas are marked with emptiness;<br />
they do not appear or disappear,<br />
are not tainted or pure,<br />
do not increase or decrease. </span></p>
<p><span>Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings,<br />
perceptions, impulses, consciousness. </span></p>
<p><span>No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;<br />
no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch,<br />
no object of mind;<br />
no realm of eyes<br />
and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness. </span></p>
<p><span>No ignorance and also no extinction of it,<br />
and so forth until no old age and death<br />
and also no extinction of them. </span></p>
<p><span>No suffering, no origination,<br />
no stopping, no path, no cognition,<br />
also no attainment with nothing to attain. </span></p>
<p><span>The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita<br />
and the mind is no hindrance;<br />
without any hindrance no fears exist.<br />
Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana. </span></p>
<p><span>In the three worlds<br />
all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita<br />
and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi. </span></p>
<p><span>Therefore know that Prajna Paramita<br />
is the great transcendent mantra,<br />
is the great bright mantra,<br />
is the utmost mantra,<br />
is the supreme mantra<br />
which is able to relieve all suffering<br />
and is true, not false.<br />
So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,<br />
proclaim the mantra which says: </span></p>
<p><span>gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha<br />
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha<br />
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. </span></p>
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		<title>Clear mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t know<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apricot468.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474635&amp;post=3&amp;subd=apricot468&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Don’t know</span></p>
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