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		<title>Dharma Message for 1Q12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.P. Blavatsky, Founder of the Theosophical Society, Author of the Secret Doctrine and Voice of the Silence

Three Fundamental Propositions of the Secret Doctrine (H.P. Blavatsky)
The Secret Doctrine establishes three fundamental propositions: —
(a) An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 4Q11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Source: Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adi_shankara.jpg)
Excerpts from Sri Sankara&#8217;s&#8220;Who Am I?&#8221; 
I am the Lord of Lords. I am devoid of even a touch of jealousy or hatred. I am He that fulfills the desired object for those who are bent on realizing the goal &#8230;
I alone am the origin of the worlds. I am He that sports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 2Q11 and 3Q11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Source: Wikipedia Common http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laozi_002.jpg)
Section #16, Tao-Te-Ching, Lao-Tzu (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Be completely empty.
Be perfectly serene.
The ten thousand things arise together;
in their arising is their return.
Now the flower,
and in their flowering
sink homeward,
returning to root.
The return to root
is peace.
Peace to accept what must be,
to know what endures.
In that knowledge is wisdom.
Without it, ruin, disorder.
To know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 1Q11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source for Image: Wikipedia Commons
Alan Watts on  the Wisdom of the Body:

&#8220;Because I speak of the wisdom of the body, and of the necessity for recognizing that we are material, this is not to be taken as a philosophy of &#8216;materialism&#8217; in the accepted sense. I am not asserting that the ultimate reality is matter. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 4Q10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Different teachers have set up different schools and proclaimed different truths and so confused people. Why?
Bhagavan: They have all taught the same truth but from different standpoints. Such differences were necessary to meet the needs of different minds differently constituted, but they all reveal the same truth.
Q: Since they recommended different paths, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 3Q10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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The opening lines of H.P. Blavatsky&#8217;s Voice of The Silence:
&#8220;He who would hear the voice of Nada, &#8216;the Soundless Sound,&#8217; and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dharana.
Having become indifferent to objects
of perception, the pupil must seek out the rajah of the senses, the Thought-Producer, he who awakes illusion.
The Mind is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 2Q10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taungpulu Sayadaw on &#8220;What Makes Meditation?&#8221; (Translated by Rina Sircar
(Excerpted from Blooming in the Desert, Favorite Teachings of the Wildflower Monk Taungpulu Sayadaw, Edited by Anne Teich, North Atlantic Books, 1996)
&#8220;When you know that you are having greed, you are no longer in ignorance, but possess knowledge.
If you know that you are angry, and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 1Q10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nyogen Senzaki&#8217;s Prayer
(Excerpted from Like A Dream, Like A Fantasy, Japan Publication, Inc., 1978)
Dharmakaya is the Buddha&#8217;s holy body.  It is the everlasting sea of noumena. It is the eternal reality of the universe.  From this transcendent point of view,  there is no coming of the Buddha, and so there is no going of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for Q309 &amp; Q409</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meister Eckhart via Matthew Fox
&#8220;God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally, in the present now.&#8221;
(Wrestling with the Prophets )
&#8220;God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.&#8221;
(Wrestling with the Prophets )
&#8220;The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma Message for 2Q09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 23:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpower</dc:creator>
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 Q. Having told me what God, the Soul and Man are not, in your views, can  you inform me what they are, according to your teachings?


A. In their origin and in eternity the three, like the universe and all therein, are one with the absolute Unity, the unknowable deific essence I spoke about [...]]]></description>
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