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	<title>hermit's thatch</title>
	
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	<description>journal of reflections by Meng-hu, resident of the Hermitary</description>
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		<title>Lost key</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Irish thinker John Moriarty tells a Sufi story, often called a Nasrudin story for the main character. It runs something like this, or you can listen to it with Moriarty&#8217;s narration.
A man is walking home at night. As he nears his house he reaches for the key in his pocket and cannot find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog, spider, mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Husky-Shepherd mix dog regularly frequents the neighborhood. He has a collar, but at the appointed hour he is roaming in Husky style, visiting dogs fenced or otherwise unable to go far. He knows where there are oppressed and friendless dogs, and visits them. He knows where there are cats, bears, rabbits, mean dogs, mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern physics maintains that matter is energy, always pulsating, moving, restless. But what is energy? We cannot but use analogies that contrast matter as solid, stable, and unmoving. Even our notions of moving and unmoving are inadequate because nothing remains unmoved if we look at everything as energy. 
The traditional yin-yang symbol of Taoism offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain, without &amp; within</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The physical fields of great austerities have been the desert and the mountains. Both physical contexts remove society and the ego but in different ways, through different metaphors, so to speak. The desert as physical emptiness, associated with dryness, heat, thirst, overbearing brightness, horizonalism, sparsity of living beings. Mountains connote coldness, snow, water, darkness, verticality, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert, without &amp; within</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early Christian desert hermits said very little about the desert as geography or physical locale. The physical context of solitude and a sense of the absolute described briefly by writer Paul Bowles (previous entry) is the setting, but the setting is seldom discussed or described by them. Rather, the desert setting establishes the maximum [...]]]></description>
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