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		<title>Doing Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still having a lot of issues coming up lately, mostly with the kids, and that part will always be a struggle now that we are no longer together.   I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to start marking some of my old posts as private, I don&#8217;t think that they&#8217;ll be really helpful for anyone else going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=496&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Advisors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I his book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill discusses the idea of creating a boardroom of imaginary counselors, the people, alive and dead, that would would most like to model our lives after, and gain insight and advice from.  I&#8217;ve thought about this for years, and lately I&#8217;ve taken to studying some of the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=490&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows and Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a lot of comments on my blog about how I&#8217;m always down, or always thinking about CC.  And Bridget has received a lot of comments on her blog about how much I don&#8217;t appreciate her, or am taking advantage of her, based in part on some of the complaints that she has posted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=447&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breakfast with Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading Breakfast with Buddha last night.  The wordsmithing is fantastic, especially if you like intricate descriptions of food.  The beginning and especially the ending were a bit weak in my opinion.  The story starts out with a typical upper middle class man who is tricked by his sister in to taking a road [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=418&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hatred</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this world, hatred is never conquered with hatred. Among human kind, violence is never stopped by counter violence, injuries can never be healed by revenge and retaliation. The only way is reconciliation, letting go, and forgiveness. &#8211;Buddha Something to think about, both in my family life and the world at large.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=404&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lead vs control</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CC made a comment a while back that I need to control everyone around me.  I don&#8217;t think that is accurate, at the moment, the only person I want to control is Bridget, and even that I don&#8217;t think would qualify as a &#8220;need&#8221;.  I do think that I need to be a leader, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=292&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a class at the Buddhist Center today about finding peace.   Here are my notes, I&#8217;m not going to put it together in a coherent essay, it&#8217;s just snippets that I got from the class. Stress is a creation of the mind, triggered by external circumstances like work and jealousy. It comes about because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=288&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation for the Renunciation of Samsara</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We cannot avoid the suffering of dissatisfaction by frequenty changing our situation.  We may think that if we keep getting a new partner or a new job, or keep traveling around, we will eventually find what we want.  But even if we traveled to every place on the globe and had a new lover in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=278&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More thoughts about expectations.  I think that CC and I have been trying to get different things out of this relationship, and not communicating very well on what we were looking for.  I was still holding on to the old relationship, but not really living up to my end of it.  She was looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=268&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cherishing others</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todays lesson from the buddhists was about cherishing others.  Essentially cherishing others means wanting them to have happy, fullfilling lives.  By learning to cherish others we can lessen the effects of bad emotions like anger, jealousy and greed.  If we want others to be happy it&#8217;s hard to get angry at them (that generally doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingtaoist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4479688&amp;post=265&amp;subd=stumblingtaoist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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