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		<title>Doing Nothing</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2010/11/01/doing-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aging as a Spiritual Practice the book is coming along.  I’ve been writing for several months now, and the large arc of the book is really beginning to take shape.  One of the important element of the book will be a guided one-day personal retreat, in which the main—though not only—focus will be aging.  Practicing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=580&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of Summer</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2010/08/31/end-of-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the end of summer, and it has been a while since I have posted here.  My apologies to all who have been following.  I have taken July and August as months to really concentrate on writing my book Aging as a Spiritual Practice and that effort has paid off.  I have written many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=568&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Here</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2010/03/27/still-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, after spending many weeks exploring the Five Great Fears of Buddhism and of aging, I thought it might be time for a more upbeat theme.  How about the Five Great Joys of aging? I don’t know of a succinct Buddhist teaching like this comparable to the Five Great Fears (Buddhism tends to focus on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=543&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Is Overrated</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2010/01/10/thinking-is-overrated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aging and Buddhism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging and karma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The comedienne Lily Tomlin, in her persona as the bag lady, once said, “I tried reality once, and found it highly overrated.”  From a Buddhist standpoint, the same could be said for thinking.  The various schools of Buddhism all have a highly technical literature, whose collected works fill a good-sized room.  That being said, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=522&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Dementia</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/12/27/fear-of-dementia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a downer of a topic! Who wants to think or talk about dementia, Alzheimer’s, losing one’s mind? Yet it is the “third great fear” in Buddhist teaching, so clearly the ancient Buddhists wanted to talk about it. They knew that the best way to transform and dissolve fear is to face it.  Well, today [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=517&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Stages of Aging</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/10/16/the-three-stages-of-aging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent contributor with his own health problems recently wondered at what point WE become our aging parents? In other words, when do the difficult problems we have with our parents regarding their illnesses, need for home or skilled nursing care, their end-of-life issues and losses, become OUR problems? Early on in the launching of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=479&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Parents 2</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/09/05/aging-parents-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post on aging parents garnered more comments than any other in the history of this blog, so clearly this is a topic that touches many people.  The experiences people have  range from the touching and poignant (“Do you know who I am, Mom?”  “Yes, you’re my baby”)  to the heartbreaking (the father whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=475&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely But Never Alone</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/07/29/lonely-but-never-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loneliness often increases as we grow older.  Certainly when those we know begin to pass away (which may start when we are in our 50s) there is a kind of loneliness that comes and cannot easily be assuaged.  Their loss is permanent. I have a thumbnail summary of Buddhism that I have mentioned here before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=467&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Are All So Fragile</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/06/27/we-are-all-so-fragile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all so fragile.  We are, first of all, so fragile physically.  When we are born, we can’t even feed ourselves or survive without continuous attention.  And throughout our lives there are so many things that can go wrong, but mostly do not.  It is actually amazing that the incredible intricacy of body and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=458&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness of Aging Part 3</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/06/20/mindfulness-of-aging-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/06/20/mindfulness-of-aging-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often say, paraphrasing my own teacher, that the purpose of Buddhist meditation is not to be calm, but to be real.  Being real doesn’t exclude being calm, if that is what is happening.  But being real is not some particular state of mind; it is the mind in accord with the actuality of things—“real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=454&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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