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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>The Resurrection of the Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<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>Anicca*: This Too Shall Pass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anicca*: This Too Shall Pass (Strains of a Brewing Song in My Mind, In Honor of Friedrich &#8220;Superman&#8221; Nietzsche and Siddharta Gautama &#8220;Buddha&#8221;) &#8212; * Pali word (pronounced &#8220;anicha&#8221;) meaning &#8220;impermanent, ephemeral, changing&#8221; I have long been searching for answers To the questions that nag my troubled mind&#8230; I have long been seeking the healing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Blues in F#m (A Tribute to Yatha-Bhuta*)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[something i wrote 4 years ago, sept. 2004&#8230; ________________________________________________________________ &#160; Meditation Blues in F#m (A Tribute to Yatha-Bhuta*) by Michael Ian Lomongo &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; *Yatha-Bhuta &#8211; a Pali word meaning, &#8220;reality,&#8221; &#8220;as it is&#8221; (For my batchmates at VipaT(h)ree, especially Modie, Susette, Rose, Art, and Rudy &#8211; the &#8220;Usual Suspects&#8221; of the group-sittings I attend, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting On My Pain&#8230; Sitting With My Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[something I wrote in April, 2004. When I was still meditating regularly&#8230; &#8212;&#8211; Sitting On My Pain&#8230; Sitting With My Pain by Michael Ian Lomongo &#8220;The essence of meditation is nowness&#8230;it is not aimed at achieving a higher state or at following some theory or idea, but simply, without any object or ambition, trying to [...]]]></description>
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