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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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; [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Resurrection of the Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason why I strayed away from &#8220;mother church&#8221; is my perception (whether right or wrong) that spirituality is inimical to the body. You want to be holy/spiritual? Then, deny the body. The body, with its desires (sexual, biological, etc.) needs to be tamed, nay, caged. The body is a burden. If only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Vegetarian Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heart of the Vegetarian Matter (In Honor of the Flesh We Eat) by Michael Ian Lomongo On the 10th day of our Vipassana course in 2003, some of my meditation friends were discussing the idea of non-killing (even of insects), whether we&#8217;d continue the practice after the course. I said I&#8217;d probably do, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pessimism of Buddhism? (In Search of a Nietzschean Buddhism&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[novermber 22, 2003 &#8212;- To continue with Nietzsche&#8217;s criticism of Buddhism: Nietzsche preferred Judaism over Christianity. He saw Christianity as the full flowering of Jewish resentment (as exemplified by St. Paul, who because he couldn&#8217;t observe the Law, turned against the Law&#8230;). Likewise, he preferred Hinduism over Buddhism, which he saw as the product of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche, Hume and the Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[reposting&#8230; november, 2003. best regards, ian &#8212; Nietzsche, Hume and the Buddha When I first heard of Nietzsche, it was in association with Hitler and the Nazis. I simply dismissed him as a rabid, power-hungry maniac who probably had an unhappy childhood. A classmate in college wrote a paper on this Nietzsche guy and I [...]]]></description>
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