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	<description>Expose Yourself to Doubt</description>
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		<title>The Customer’s Always Right</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad ran a fine Gloucester restaurant in the West of England and used to recite these words like a mantra. It contrasted with his considered opinion that many customers were philistines who didn’t appreciate good food and wine. Still, he acknowledged their custom nevertheless, knowing that his livelihood depended on them. That wasn’t the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was the fortunate recipient of some critical advice. I wasn’t expecting it, I didn’t ask for it and I really had no idea how to fit it into my life, but it was delivered with the assurance that it came from the heart and would benefit me greatly. It was rather like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philo of Alexandria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading in depth about the ancient philosophers and discovering they had far more in common with the Buddha (and vice-versa) than either my old philosophy professors or my Tibetan teachers would care to admit. In fact, I&#8217;ve learned that Siddhattha, who later became the Buddha, was very possibly schooled in Taxila — an outpost of the Greek empire established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to all my faithful readers for the long delay in new postings to this blog. I simply overestimated by time management skills. Shouldn&#8217;t be long ….
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		<title>Dunking in a Perfect Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to wake up to a good strong shot of caffeine—usually a caffé latte made with pure Arabica. Once in a while I give into my English side too, and dunk a McVitie’s digestive biscuit or two. It’s a treat.
Which is what I gave myself this Sunday morning of Victoria Day weekend 2010—the spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring Mindfulness</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/05/05/measuring-mindfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m just back from a symposium on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto&#8217;s Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alone among psychologists, analysts, social workers and academics, I nevertheless found myself quite at home. Almost all were meditators, some with decades of practice under their belts. There’s a natural affinity between Buddhism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stirring it up</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/19/stirring-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello? Is anybody out there?
I was sure my blog post Spiritual Life would bring in a flood of comments; so was Caroline. True, it wasn’t that profound, but we thought it was at least provocative; while it did express some of my thoughts I was more interested in yours, dear reader. I guess mine just weren’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Life</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/10/spiritual-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are sometimes surprised to hear that I take my exercise at a local gym. Shouldn’t I—a former Buddhist monk and teacher of mindful reflection—be a dedicated yoga practitioner? Actually, I did practice yoga for many years, and also tai-chi, which I particularly loved. These days, however, I frequent the noisy, unassuming, weight room of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love &amp; Respect</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/07/love-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We’re all in the same boat. Born as we are in this human body, we can’t escape the blessings and tortures of the human brain. From our first breath, we yearn for love and understanding in the most complicated ways imaginable. We find it most satisfyingly as we learn to give it. The ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/01/mindfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was warm today—a full, balmy six degrees Celsius—and the squirrels were out in the melting snow as I drove up Côte-Saint-Charles. In fact, one of them almost dashed under the wheels of my car—after which I was much more attentive. I like squirrels. More to the point, I hate running them over; but there’s no way [...]]]></description>
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