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		<title>In the Arc of Your Mallet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 23:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Arc Of Your Mallet
by Rumi
Don&#8217;t go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don&#8217;t see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deliberately Ignoring Something Because of the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the Matrix and Moulin Rouge, despite their being hyped. On the other hand, I did watch Lord of the Rings 1 &#38; 2, but stayed away from 3. Tried reading book 1, but just managed a few paragraphs, and then stopped&#8230; (Well, perhaps someday&#8230;)
Did &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; have that much hype? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Matter! (On the Da Vinci Code, Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum &amp; Other Matters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; in 2005, after deliberately ignoring it for quite some time because of the hype. And then saw the movie later.
Well, the wealth of information (esp. regarding symbols) is generally sound. But it doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to the erudition of Umberto Eco&#8217;s &#8220;Foucalt&#8217;s Pendulum.&#8221; (I have yet to understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because I Cannot Sleep by Rumi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by Rumi:
Because I Cannot Sleep
Because I cannot sleep
I make music at night.
I am troubled by the one whose face has the color of spring flowers.
I have neither sleep nor patience,
neither a good reputation nor disgrace.
A thousand robes of wisdom are gone.
All my good manners have run a thousand miles away.
The heart and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vipassana for Nietzscheans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He remembered his sadness well, but he could no longer remember what had made him so sad. It was that way with everything: even sadness passed, even pain and despair, as well as the joys. Everything passed, faded, lost its depth, its value, and finally there came a time when one could no longer remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpt from &#8220;It&#8217;s Here Now: Are You?&#8221; by Bhagavan Das</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;It&#8217;s Here Now: Are You?&#8221; by Bhagavan Das, pp.82-83:
The spiritual path gives you a choice to use your power for either good or evil. Many are tempted to use it for evil &#8212; that&#8217;s human nature. We must overcome this temptation. This is why the spiritual life is called the razor&#8217;s edge. The more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tantric Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tantric Sex
Tantrayana&#8230; Vajrayana&#8230;
And all we ever notice is the sex! (Just look at how our Christian conditioning has warped our minds&#8230;)
What&#8217;s so special about tantric sex?
Nothing much.
It&#8217;s just that it becomes a sacred/holy activity. A prayer. A rite/ritual (not in its pejorative sense).
So, it&#8217;s pretty much how all sexual encounters should be. What&#8217;s the diff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drunk, Stoned, And In Love (with An Orange)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs and alcohol can open up a spiritual experience. But, as Bhagavan Das pointed out, it&#8217;s a dark (tamasic) path and the danger is in being eaten up or swallowed by the substance, instead of the other way around.
I haven&#8217;t taken hallucinogens. (I&#8217;d like to, someday, with reformed drug addict Rudy as a &#8220;guide.&#8221; To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happenstance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember this film I saw in one of the French Spring Film Festivals, &#8220;Chance or Coincidence&#8221; about an &#8220;eventologist&#8221; (or someething) whose &#8220;other&#8221; job is to find connections/meanings in the chance occurences of life. I don&#8217;t remember the details of the story, it&#8217;s a love story (I think). I liked it, and also this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Resurrection of the Body Too: The Misunderstanding of Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people say that Christianity has been misunderstood. It looks to me more like it is Christianity which has misunderstood! The world, perhaps even Christ!
I&#8217;m not associating Christ with Christianity. When Nietzsche wrote &#8220;Der Anti-Christ&#8221; (usually translated as &#8220;The Anti-Christ&#8221;), his polemics was directed more to Paul and Christendom/Christianity, (a note in the translation says [...]]]></description>
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