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	<description>Zen for the 21st Century</description>
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		<title>A Mothers Day Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this consciousness work there is a big difference between our internal mother and our biological one. Our biological mother is a unique person with all her personal issues. Our internal mother has none of this, she is completely free from it all and is unconditionally loving. Your biological mother may have had more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am the Air that he breathes in and out thousands of times a day, that he takes for granted. Without me he could not live. Without me he would die a quick and painful death. Even when he follows me in and out, rarely does he identify with me and become me. He keeps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bigmind.org/?p=2537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Buddha taught the Middle Way as the fourth of the Four Noble Truths, also known as the Eightfold Path to relieve suffering and attain liberation. The Middle Way is very often misunderstood as a narrow Path between two extremes. This is not the true understanding of the Buddha’s teaching. Actually it is a far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year of the Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we move into the new year I want to let you all know where I am now in my journey. I am writing this on the Chinese New Year, the year of the Dragon. I trust it will be a better year for us all and a year of great transformation for the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Buddhism and Western Psychotherapy:               The Abhidharma — Buddhist Philosophy and Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am using the term Abhidharma here as a way to study the self and drop our identification with the self, in order to live a happier, healthier and more joyful life. I see this as a foundation for a new psychotherapy embracing both Eastern and Western Philosophy and Psychology. The Abhidharma is the known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arhat and the Bodhisattva</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bigmind.org/?p=2187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it is time for us Zen and Tibetan Buddhists as well as other Mahayana Buddhists to re-look at the Arhat, the Theravada Buddhist ideal archetype who seeks self-realization and complete emancipation. Let’s begin by acknowledging that there is an Arhat as well as a Bodhisattva within us all. In Theravada Buddhism an Arhat is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming events</title>
		<link>http://bigmind.org/blog/2180</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Thank you all for your continued support and enthusiastic participation in Big Mind and Big Heart events and in the ongoing exploration and dialogue of Big Mind with Genpo Roshi on our blog and Facebook page. Your feedback helps to guide what we offer going forward. We would like to invite you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonder of Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written and spoken often of the two roots of the Big Mind process being my experience and training as a Zen monk and teacher for the past 40 years under the guidance of my own teacher Maezumi Roshi, and the insights of Western psychology, particularly the Voice Dialogue method of Doctors Hal and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Selling water by the river</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Selling water by the river” is a famous Zen phrase, said to have been spoken by a Zen Master to describe his forty years of teaching. Why would you buy water from someone standing beside the river, when you could just as easily put a cup down and scoop some up for yourself? Furthermore, Zen [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;d rather be right than happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genpo Roshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bigmind.org/?p=2094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Student: Why do you emphasize that ideas, notions, hopes and expectations are the problem? Roshi: The thing we are most attached to, of course, is what I call my self, which includes my ideas, notions and beliefs about who I am. So this “I” and whatever I call Me, My or Mine are the most [...]]]></description>
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