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		<title>It&#8217;s a love letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . dark night/clear light 3 am, sitting. Was ever a December so dark? The words of my favourite childhood hymn sang themselves in my mind: Jesus bids us shine with a pure, clear light Like a little candle burning in the night. In this world of darkness, so we must shine: You in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Update, October, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;paradox Slowly and suddenly, the seasons pass. A paradox. It seems we are still waiting for summer and yet . . . yellow leaves float on the surface of the pond and few flowers remain in fall’s garden. We’re looking ahead to the 10th anniversary of this centre, and planning to spend over a third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Update June 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . taking a breath, catching up It is hard to know where to begin, hard to believe that six months have passed since our last update. The Deep Retreat broke records for ‘remarkable’ this year, as did attendance at the annual public teachings. More and more community members are taking on responsibility here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Update, January, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . .transitions After a week of gentle snow falling (but not accumulating!) the first intimations of spring are happening and the silence of Deep Retreat is two weeks old. It was intense, returning after three months (for Bonni) and one month (for Matthew) in the southern hemisphere to catch up with life (and dog) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Update September 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . glimpse our small, sublime world One of summer’s pleasures is to choose ice cream cones at the Roberts Creek store, and head down past the community mandala to the pier for a sunset walk with Mila. A few weeks ago, crimson light was muted to mauve and peach by the smoke of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Buddhist Meditation (3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do this work to expand awareness, deepen wisdom and increase compassion for the benefit of all beings. Why is it necessary to go to all this effort to learn about meditation? If it is true that the force of Universe is moving all of us in the direction of awakening, why the emphasis on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Buddhist Meditation (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do this work to expand awareness, deepen wisdom and increase compassion for the benefit of all beings. First of all, I&#8217;d like to refresh your memory of the Jungian mandala of the four functions of the human being which we spoke about last week. Do you recall what they are? Sensing, evaluative, intellectual and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Buddhist Meditation (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do this work to expand awareness, deepen wisdom and increase compassion for the benefit of all beings. What is meditation? It may interest you to know that in the ancient language of the culture where these practices were first developed, there wasn&#8217;t a word which exactly translates as &#8220;meditation&#8221;. This English word is our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Path Going Now-Here 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we ended with a consideration of the word samma and you were invited to explore the implications of a totality perspective in your daily lives. If you gave this a try, you will know directly how difficult it is. Only when we begin to realize how much we think, speak and act [...]]]></description>
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