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	<title>The Naked Monk</title>
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	<description>Expose Yourself to Doubt</description>
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		<title>Musings of a Jailhouse Meditator</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/09/musings-of-a-jailhouse-meditator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Inquiring Mind Volume 26 Number 1 / Fall 2009

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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>Life</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/03/04/life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline and I were watching TV the other night when we lost interest and turned to each other. It was just one of those things—we were on the same page and grateful for it. Sounds a bit dreamy, I suppose, but it was special. Then her eyes welled up. I reached for her hand and waited for [...]]]></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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		<title>Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/28/hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our daughter Melanie introduced us to her new boyfriend last night. Although she’s been dating for years, she’s never been as excited about a boy before; she even suggested I blog about love.
That surprised me because she’s really not the starry-eyed type; in fact, she’s generally on guard in her relationships—in part because that’s who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I, Fraud?</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/24/i-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last blog then you&#8217;ll know I believe in art. The one unbroken thread in my life has been the search for freedom, and for me there is no more creative pursuit. Whether I prefer this or that form is secondary; the process itself leads to freedom.
In the blog, I described the notion art is successful only if it sells as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persist: a Book Review</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/22/persist-a-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce (Parami Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-097797741-3) by Peter Clothier
[Purchase here.]
At face value, Peter Clothier’s Persist is a rallying call to starving artists everywhere to never, ever, give up. Under the surface however, it’s considerably more—a manifesto for art at a time when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Qualities</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/20/olympic-qualities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago the Olympic games were a unique emblem of nobility and wholesome ethics. Professional athletes—i.e., those paid to undistractedly practice and participate—were banned. Anyone with gumption had a chance at gold—or so it seemed. In the popular imagination, it was all about the sheer love of sport.
How that&#8217;s all changed is too obvious to rant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Hearts</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/15/good-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/15/good-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline and I were at our local drop-in clinic this morning. I carried a thick book to bide me through the wait while she swayed on her walking cane. She&#8217;s up and about, but not out of the woods. Like many medical waiting rooms, this one was packed and, it being February in Canada, everyone was bulky with coats, hats, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unhappy New Year in Tibet</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/14/not-a-happy-new-year-in-tibet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/02/14/not-a-happy-new-year-in-tibet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tashi Delek—it’s Tibetan New Year! Today, everyone would normally put on brand new clothes, replace last year’s sun-bleached prayer flags with freshly printed ones, and eat and drink to their heart’s content for at least three days, though the festival usually lasts fifteen.
Alas, this year the Dalai Lama’s asked Tibetans worldwide not to celebrate, as [...]]]></description>
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