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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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		<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&blog=6400559&post=522&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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&blog=6400559&post=517&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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 this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&blog=6400559&post=479&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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&blog=6400559&post=475&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&blog=6400559&post=467&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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&blog=6400559&post=458&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=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>
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		<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&blog=6400559&post=454&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness of Aging Part 2</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/06/10/mindfulness-of-aging-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do we do with our aging thoughts? How can we transform them from exercises in comparison and regret into more wholesome insights that nourish us? (If you are tuning in to this blog for the first time, read the last post, “Mindfulness of Aging part I”.)
There are three parts to transforming mindfulness:  clarity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&blog=6400559&post=448&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness of Aging Part I</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2009/05/28/mindfulness-of-aging-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post I’d like to explore the practice of “Mindfulness of Aging.”  Mindfulness is one of the basic practices in Buddhism, but the precise reasons why it is effective (particularly in chronic pain management) are not yet well understood.  Mindfulness is sometimes characterized in Buddhist texts as “bare noting,” and is often coupled with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&blog=6400559&post=443&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aging and the Thought of Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;thought of enlightenment,&#8221; or bodhicitta, is a key doctrine of Great Vehicle Buddhism. 
 
 Basically it refers that moment in your life when your perspective widens to embrace the big picture, and to ask the big questions.  Why am I here? Why is anything here? What is life all about? Why is there evil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&blog=6400559&post=377&subd=lewrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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