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		<title>Lying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always wondered why the Buddha was so strict about lying. Lying wasn&#8217;t appropriate under any circumstances. This has always been hard for me to understand when it comes to little white lies. If you look at the Buddha&#8217;s instruction to practice absolute honesty within the context of insight meditation, meditation whose object is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=11&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seriously considered ordaining at one point in the Theravada tradition. I didn&#8217;t do it because of some serious doubts about the appropriateness of this for me. One big concern was how others would relate to me. I didn&#8217;t want people to think I was somehow a better practitioner because I was in robes. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=10&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dependent Origination</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have noticed that Theravada authors use the Buddha&#8217;s teaching on Dependent Origination to demonstrate how we all are ensnared in the round of samsara while Mahayana authors use it to show how interrelated all things are!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=5&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Broad Brush: Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have studied in both schools of Buddhism and find them both valuable. With a broad brush, here is how I&#8217;d describe my take on the two schools. Keep in mind, I&#8217;m not a scholar just a Buddhist practitioner. I love the emphasis on the sacredness of this world in the Mahayana. You find a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=4&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samvega</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samvega is a Pali word. Pali is the language of the oldest Buddhist scriptures. This word means the oppressive sense of shock, dismay, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it&#8217;s normally lived; a chastening sense of one&#8217;s own complacency and foolishness in having let oneself live so blindly; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=3&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the Buddha&#8217;s path early in 2001. I remember the time because it was the week that the Taliban dynamited the great Buddhas of Bamiyan. I remember thinking, “How does my new faith, the lovely, peaceful religion of Lord Buddha ask me to react to such a terrible desecration?” In early 2001, I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patipada.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3122454&amp;post=1&amp;subd=patipada&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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