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		<title>Wake Up Get Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any positive change, getting to the cushion, waking up a bit earlier - requires effort. At first it may require a lot of effort until it becomes a new habit, a new behaviour, a new way of being.]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8216;Unhappiness&#8217; a requirement for Happiness?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/is-unhappiness-a-requirement-for-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much talk about happiness today that it seems like anything that makes us happy is good and anything that falls under the &#8216;unhappiness&#8217; umbrella is bad only to chase the things that create the former and avoid the things that make us feel the latter.    Has the pendulum swung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to make practice my vocation</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/trying-to-make-practice-my-vocation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideally there is little to no separtion from formal sitting pracitse to daily life.  Over the years I have learned some of the things that I should take up and some of the things that I should give up. An attempt to stop living in preparation for practice but to make practice my vocation.
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		<title>How Can We Use the Body to Study the Mind?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/how-can-we-use-the-body-to-study-the-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[body and mind connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to observe the mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga asana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The postures of yoga were designed thousands of years ago to help those that were interested in gaining deeper levels of insight, to first, calm the nervous system. The integration of awareness of the breath and the senses with the movement of the body were used to bridge the (apparent) gap between the body and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stillness &amp; Effort</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/stillness-effort/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/stillness-effort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A yogi instructed in class the other day that, &#8220;the only effort you need to expend is the effort it takes to bring you to the present moment.&#8221; All of our decisions, choices, and actions are best made from this moment. Not &#8220;in reaction to&#8221; but rather from a place of stillness, only accessible in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/meditation-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[being present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[overcoming suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce stress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After meditation practice, I often feel peaceful, calm, serene, a sense of connection, openness, inner joy and relaxation &#8230; and then I go to work &#8230; and poof within the hour my connection to this inner state has disappeared. Where does it go?  How do we cultivate a more mindful work environment? Can we make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;patience&#8221; a state of mind?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/is-patience-a-state-of-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/is-patience-a-state-of-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.meditationvillage.ca/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I struggle with patience.  Two phrases make me cringe, &#8216;be patient&#8217; and &#8216;have faith.&#8217; I don&#8217;t know why. Is it because I am immature or childish and I just want what I want now? Does one have patience because they have faith and trust or is patience something that transcends the content of thoughts and better understood in the context of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inner Practice</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/inner-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/inner-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YeShey's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contentment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inner Practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[master the mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I sit down to discuss my practice with my teacher; the first thing that he always reminds me is that the inner practice is the most important. I also hear  Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo commenting again and again on the need for each of us to watch our mind.    What if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you making most important in your day right now?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/what-are-you-making-most-important-in-your-day-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/what-are-you-making-most-important-in-your-day-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ekhart Tolle uses the question, &#8220;what are you making most important in your day right now?&#8221; to ask yourself everyday to bring peace and purpose to your life.
For a week I did it and thought, oh it is going to be &#8220;work&#8221; (unfortunately at the moment I am thinking about work lots and therefore putting work first). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrimage to the Cave in the Snow</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/pilgrimage-to-the-cave-in-the-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/pilgrimage-to-the-cave-in-the-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pilgrimage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tenzin Palmo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty of us met in Northern India to embark on an 18 day pilgrimage led by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. During these 18 days we were able to get a glimpse of the places that she spent time and the people that influenced her years  in India including the in the cave she practiced in for [...]]]></description>
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