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	<description>daily blog, videos, e-newsletter &#38; magazine on yoga + organics + green living + non-new agey spirituality + ecofashion + conscious consumerism=it&#039;s about the mindful life.</description>
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		<title>The Calling for a Spiritual Journey.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/the-calling-for-a-spiritual-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows.” ~ John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale What is it that draws us toward the seemingly intangible marrow that lies hidden, buried within the movements that make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the Raft Behind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s interesting to notice how we might cling to what has kept us comfortable throughout our lives with fervor.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Answer Is Found When We Are Lost.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/the-best-answer-is-found-when-we-are-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<title>Happiness.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/happiness-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/happiness-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When everything is removed, it becomes clear that happiness is innate. Oftentimes our lives revolve around a shallow sense of identity that derives itself from the externalities it thrives upon—wealth, what other people think, power, wit, beauty, etc. These outside influences propel a narrative that is constantly running in our minds, creating a kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing the Paradox.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/embracing-the-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a forest or on a park bench in the middle of a bustling city are two foreground experiences that jut out from the vastness of the background. And yet, both of these interconnected tapestries open out into the life that is here; the one with which we interact and in turn, interacts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Darkness into Clarity.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/turning-darkness-into-clarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an account in Zen Flesh Zen Bones where two Japanese monks, Tanzan and Ekido, walked through the countryside one morning on their way to a distant destination. While on their journey, they came upon a beautiful woman who was trying to cross a muddy road in a pristine white silk kimono. Ekido prepared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Zen Master&#8217;s Viewless View.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/a-zen-masters-viewless-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/a-zen-masters-viewless-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s interesting to approach something openly&#8212;without any baggage, hardened opinions, weighty ideas or rules about how vastness functions. Through presence, there&#8217;s a meeting between this mind and what is before us&#8230; where the perceived boundary lines we create aren’t necessarily apparent and the ways in which we label life “boring,” “colorful,” or “dreadful” are fundamentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vibrancy of Interconnectedness.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/the-vibrancy-of-interconnectedness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/the-vibrancy-of-interconnectedness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.&#8221; ~ Buddha Fundamentally, we are part of something that is large and beyond any rational conceptualization—what we might label, &#8220;the inconceivable.&#8221; The universe that touches our fingers and spreads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Go of Our Baggage.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/letting-go-of-our-baggage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/letting-go-of-our-baggage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is a narrative—a troubled past, an ebb and flow with addiction, a troubled relationship, or a tendency to follow the herd, then mindfulness means recognizing it (finding the builder), sitting with it—no matter the length of time—and patiently clearing it out so that we might meet life as openly as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Why don’t we help people in need instead of handing them guns?</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/why-dont-we-help-people-in-need-instead-of-handing-them-guns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/why-dont-we-help-people-in-need-instead-of-handing-them-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Dianda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, many Americans are genuinely calling for teachers to carry guns with them at all times as a way to protect their students from a random attack.]]></description>
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