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		<title>The Customer’s Always Right</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/07/28/the-customer%e2%80%99s-always-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/07/18/helping-out/</link>
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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>Interviewed by a Christian</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/07/10/interviewed-by-a-christian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was interviewed by Drew Marshall, host of ‘Canada’s most listened to spiritual talk show.’ Drew believes in Jesus Christ, but he also describes himself as an “autodidactic iconoclast” who rages against the “bizarre North American Christian sub-culture.”
I liked him. Rather more surprisingly, he liked me.
I really don’t believe in believers. Considering all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philo of Alexandria</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/07/06/philo-of-alexandria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/07/04/apologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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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>Tending to Believe</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/06/18/tending-to-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the radio news the other night, I heard for the first time about Jacques Delisle, a Former Quebec Appeal Court justice charged in a Quebec courtroom this week with first-degree murder in the death of his wife.
My first reaction was a sigh. This comes in the same week that a commission of inquiry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Times</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/06/09/hard-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Power of Doubt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike most self-employed people, I’m quite content when things slow down. I have half a dozen projects on the go that, since they don’t produce any short-term income, usually take second place. Slow business enables me to work on my blog, my new book or my website makeover.
Sometimes, however, things are too slow. The recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I Belong?</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/06/07/do-i-belong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m still a little conflicted in my relationship to Buddhism. I study the Buddhist scriptures with, in anything, more interest than ever, but I stubbornly refuse to call myself a Buddhist. Why? Because I don’t belong (or wish to belong) to any particular tradition. Am I being honest, or ornery?
By conventional standards, I’m not a Buddhist. Just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dunking in a Perfect Universe</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/05/23/dunking-in-a-perfect-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/05/23/dunking-in-a-perfect-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindful Reflection]]></category>

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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>Sex &amp; Celibacy</title>
		<link>http://www.thenovice.ca/blog/2010/05/15/sex-celibacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who was raised as a Catholic — and as a former celibate, albeit Buddhist — I can’t help but follow the scandal that’s finally breaking over the Catholic Church. Long, long overdue, it’s the stuff of nightmares — the worldwide sexual abuse of children for decades, probably centuries, and the instinct of most [...]]]></description>
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