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		<title>Paths for a Lifetime</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/05/17/the-slow-winding-difficult-easy-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began participating in my local interfaith dialogue group a few years ago, I realized that although I had been a student of Buddhadharma for about 13 years, and had taken a few undergraduate courses in Buddhism in the 1990s, I hadn’t gotten the kind of thorough overview of Buddhist doctrines that one might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6701&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For a Dharma Friend</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/04/30/for-a-dharma-friend-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;as expressed in the parable of the two rivers of water and fire, we are full of ignorance and blind passion. Our desires are countless, and anger, wrath, jealousy, and envy are overwhelming, arising without pause; to the very last moment of life they do not cease, or disappear, or exhaust themselves. When we, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6683&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why complicate what is simple?</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/04/29/why-complicate-what-is-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nembutsu life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The temple that I attend to learn Nagarjuna&#8217;s &#8216;easy path&#8217; is in a part of London where there is a large population of ring-necked parakeets. Almost any time I go out in the temple gardens I will hear their squawking call, unlike that of any native species, and then see a flock of them dashing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6666&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;In Favour of Criticism&#8217; ~ Friedrich Nietzsche</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/04/28/in-favour-of-criticism-friedrich-nietzsche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In Favour of Criticism: ~  Something now appears to you as an error which you used to love as a truth, or as a probability. You cast this opinion aside and imagine that your reason has thereby gained a victory. But perhaps that error was as necessary for you then &#8211; for the old &#8220;you&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6629&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funeral</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/04/26/funeral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nembutsu life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death/dying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the funeral of a friend yesterday. For some reason I thought it might help me feel better, hearing about their life from other people that knew them. Instead I just felt more sad and depressed. I&#8217;ve only been to the funerals of family before. Those were very sad too, but within the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6601&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Temple visit: 14-16 April 2012</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/04/16/temple-visit-14-16-april-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry things have been rather quiet around here of late. I will have university holidays from June and, although I&#8217;ll still be working a day-job, there will hopefully be more time to post. I spent the weekend down at the temple, my first visit in six weeks or so. In one respect the temple was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6592&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;a desire to express that awe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/03/26/a-desire-to-express-that-awe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of his recent post Notes to Myself #3 Jerry wrote, &#8220;Read “poem,” think “nembutsu”. This came to mind last night when I read the following passage in W. H. Auden&#8217;s The Dyer&#8217;s Hand: &#8220;The impulse to create a work of art is felt when, in certain persons, the passive awe provoked by sacred beings or events [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6581&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Offerings</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/03/13/flower-offerings-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I cut some Japanese Rose (Kerria japonica) and arranged it next to my butsudan. Then, when the time for morning otsutome came, I was deeply struck by the liveliness of the shrine.  I felt a strong conviction that without the flowers it would not be a shrine. I don&#8217;t mean this as a doctrinal &#8216;truth claim&#8217;.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6565&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Raga</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/02/29/spring-raga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seidō</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife has been out-of-town visiting her extended family since last Thursday. So, I got to enjoy a weekend of wild bachelor hijinks: unwinding with a few micro-brewed beers and PBS on Friday night; a hike in the silent, snow-covered woods on Saturday; On Sunday, a visit to the local Sikh temple. Since my wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6547&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years of Shin practice</title>
		<link>http://echoesofthename.net/2012/02/27/ten-years-of-shin-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyōshin Samuels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month marked ten years since I started attending a Jōdo Shinshū temple along with my friend Jishin. As such when I went down there this weekend for an informal retreat it was a time of considerable reflection. I hadn&#8217;t been down to the temple, or had much contact with samgha, since just before Christmas and on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echoesofthename.net&#038;blog=1401163&#038;post=6542&#038;subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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