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		<title>Enjoy a quiet moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life Practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our meditation community just held its annual spring retreat—a delightful four days for meditation at a retreat center situated in a redwood forest. Even if you are not standing near a redwood tree right now, wherever you find yourself today I hope &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=467">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Settle Into the Bliss—An Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed by Vlad Moskovski for his blog Meditation Secrets Revealed.  It was a delight to talk with him about the dhamma, and to see a nice interview result. We titled the interview Settle Into the Bliss: An &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=463">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Who Share Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loving Kindness and Compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that all beings that are born will die. All beings wish for happiness and wish to avoid suffering. Can you live viewing all beings as friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death? Recite and contemplate this &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=434">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Total Dedication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what ways do you offer less than 100 percent dedication to awakening? Learn what drains and diminishes your effort. Notice the effect of daily habits and entertainments on your meditation. Observe the effects that watching TV, engaging in gossip, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=443">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Concentration in Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jhanas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I led a day of meditation on the theme of concentration for the Madison Vipassana community. What a lovely day this was—snow on the ground, sun in the sky, and a room full of attentive meditators! There was tremendous &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=439">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Right View and the Danger of Fixation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investigating body and mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We concluded our six-week series on Right View last night with a talk and discussion on the Dangers of Fixation. Audio recordings will be posted at: http://www.imsb.org/teachings/audioSeries.php. The experience of right view does not require adherence to a set of beliefs &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=429">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On detachment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Detachment describes the ease of a mind not adhering, not fixated, and not identified with the fleeting stream of lived events.&#8221;—Shaila Catherine, Wisdom Wide and Deep, page 398. Often people bring negative associations to the term detachment—thinking it implies cold indifference. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=358">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion—Service and charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are notes from a recent class on cultivating compassion toward people who occupy a neutral place in our lives. Genuine compassion extends beyond self-compassion or the protection of our social group; it is the wish that all beings &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=421">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing notes from a recent class on self-compassion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not only others who hurt; we each also need compassion. Self-compassion is a necessary foundation for any genuine personal development. Are we kind and considerate toward ourselves? Do we consider our long-term benefit rather than merely temporary pleasures? &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=418">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reacting to feelings</title>
		<link>http://blog.imsb.org/?p=364</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaila</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life Practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are you today? When we greet each other, we often ask, &#8220;how are you?&#8221; and then share how we are feeling today. For a moment, please tune into the quality of your mind: how are you feeling right now? Let &#8230; <a href="http://blog.imsb.org/?p=364">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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