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		<title>The Fundamentals and Fruits of Zen Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helen Cortes narrates The Fundamentals of Zen Practice:

Ruben Habito describes the Fruits of Zen Practice:

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		<link>http://www.mkzc.org/the-fundamentals-and-fruits-of-zen-practice/</link>
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		<title>New Year’s Greetings, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Members and Friends of the Maria Kannon Zen Community,
As we celebrate the beginning of a new year, I would like to invite each of you to join me in renewing our resolve to affirm ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue With Eastern Religions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we are social beings we ourselves are in communion: ontologically, relationship, fellowship, with others. There is actually no living person apart from others. So we discover ourselves, realize ourselves only in the meeting with others; the deeper the meeting, the more we find ourselves and blossom into persons. From a Christian perspective we are even more so created to be in communion, reflecting as we do the very “being-one-together” of the divine Persons in the Trinity, that ultimate secret of God’s life, as shared with us by Jesus.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mkzc.org/dialogue-with-eastern-religions/</link>
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		<title>Morning Treasures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's Hakuin again: "Nirvana is openly shown to our  eyes.  This earth where we stand is the pure lotus land!  And this very  body, the body of Buddha."  And this, this very practice, is where I come to meet myself-in the morning.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mkzc.org/morning-treasures/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Kennedy Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attention is key.  Here, for me, is an important synthesis.  To what am I paying attention?  To what cannot be named or imagined or understood, to “no thing”.  I remember that Jesus said the wheat must fall into the ground and die or it cannot give life.  That seems the same as saying there is no self.  It makes perfect sense even while it makes no sense.  It is a hard saying, but I believe it is good to bear it
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		<title>Oxherding Picture 3: Seeing the Ox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruben Habito
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of articles on The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. View all the available articles of the series here.
By way of preparation for this third picture, let me ...]]></description>
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