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		<title>Only Beauty Can Save the World: James Hillman at 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Archetypal psychologist James Hillman was born on the 12th of April, in 1926. Which means he’d be a hundred today. He looms in my inner life. In an unfinished memoir I touched up him and his acolytes and all that. I began taking classes at Sonoma State University, studying psychology while Jan finished up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Easter: A Zen Buddhist Appreciation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easter. That most holy of Christian holy days. The Gospel of Mark is generally considered the oldest of the canonical gospels, the time-hallowed stories of Jesus and his ministry. The sixteenth chapter of Mark tells the story of Easter in its most unelaborated version. And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Lazy Person&#8217;s Guide to Idleness &#038; Liberation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hui Tzu said to Chuang, “I have a big tree, the kind they call a “stinktree.” The trunk is so distorted, so full of knots, no one can get a straight plank out of it. The branches are so crooked you cannot cut them up in any way that makes sense.” “There it stands beside [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fear, Hatred, and Zen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Eugen Herrigel was born on the 20th of March, in 1884. In 1953, his book Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens was published as Zen in the Art of Archery. It was one of the first English language books in general distribution that touched on Zen. And it was wildly successful. “Zen and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Zen Master Soen Nakagawa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Rinzai Zen master Soen Nakagawa was born on the 19th of March, in 1907. It’s been a while since I’ve noted the day and this remarkable figure at the foundation of Zen come West. Felt appropriate to offer it again. In my study of Zen come West, Zen Master Who? I wrote about him. Through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recalling Zen historian David Chadwick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was saddened to learn that David Chadwick died at his home in Bali yesterday. He’s devoted much of his life to archiving the early history of the San Francisco Zen Center, itself the epicenter in the founding of convert Zen in North America. The term “Zen Center” was coined as the group separated from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Zen and the Broken Places</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Roshi Edward Oberholtzer gave this dharma talk at our Empty Moon Zen Saturday Zoom sit on Feburary 21st, 2026. With his gracious permission I reprint it here…) *** Stephan Daedalus, that stand-in for his creator,  James Joyce, once said in Joyce’s Ulysses , that “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Zen Buddhist Response to this Moment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(The following is a Dharma talk delivered by Dharma Holder Thomas Wardle of the Empty Moon Zen community. Reprinted here with his generous consent.) If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Merton, Interfaith saint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thomas Merton was born at Prades, France, on the 31st of January, in 1915. His father Owen was a New Zelander, his mother Ruth, an American. They’d met while each was studying art in Paris. Thomas was baptized into the Church of England. representing his father’s Anglican faith. With the onset of the First World [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recalling Zen&#8217;s Great teacher Eihei Dogen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eihei Dogen was born on the 26th of January in 1200. He is recalled as the founder of the Japanese Soto school (Caodong in Chinese) and as one of the great spiritual writers of all time. It is believed he was the illegitimate child of an imperial councillor. His mother is believed to have died [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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