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		<title>Does Meditation Still Work When You&#8217;re Older?</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/07/25/does-meditation-still-work-when-youre-older/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does meditation still work when you&#8217;re old? Of course it does, when done properly and with the right attitude. But I meet many Buddhist meditators these days who say to me, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been meditating for decades. I&#8217;ve been to numerous retreats. When I was young it was fantastic. I felt like I was making tremendous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=699&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adulthood, Elderhood, Buddhahood: Stages of a Spiritual Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Roberts was a part Native American who had spent his youth on a Yurok reservation in Northern California, training with his Yurok uncle in how to be a medicine man. When I lived at Green Gulch Zen Temple in the 1970s, Harry, by then in his 70s, served as a farm adviser, horticulturalist and down-to-earth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=695&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dalai Lama and Osama Bin Laden: Taking Horror Seriously</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/06/11/the-dalai-lama-and-osama-bin-laden-taking-horror-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night that Osama bin laden was killed, I found myself feeling relieved &#8212; even a bit glad. I examined those feelings and wondered: Were these feelings consistent with my Buddhist commitment to peace, compassion and forgiveness? I wasn&#8217;t sure, but my feelings were my feelings. The next day I read that the Dalai Lama appeared to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=688&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Buddha&#8217;s Teachings on the Soul</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/05/31/the-buddhas-teachings-on-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vacchagotta &#8212; Vaccha for short &#8212; was one of the many religious wanderers whose spiritual dialogue with Gautama the Buddha is recorded in Buddhist scripture (the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta). Vaccha was full of questions, particularly about the soul. The soul &#8212; or atman in the language of ancient India &#8212; was thought at the time to be the eternal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=682&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Buddhists Believe in God?</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/05/13/do-buddhists-believe-in-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 02:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, when I was on a live radio show being interviewed by a Christian talk show host, her first question to me was, “Do you Buddhists believe in God?”I had only a few seconds to think of an answer. “Yes,” I said. “Good!” the host said. “And how do you pray?” I said that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=677&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Ancient Buddhist Model for Today&#8217;s World</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/04/29/an-ancient-buddhist-model-for-todays-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my ongoing effort to find ways to adapt Buddhism to modern American life, I have long been influenced by the example of Vimala-Kirti, the &#8220;householder sage&#8221; of ancient India (pictured). According to the Vimala-Kirti Sutra (&#8220;sutra&#8221; means scripture), Vimala-Kirti was a wealthy layperson or householder who was one of the Buddha&#8217;s leading lay disciples. Even though he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=671&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aging, Plutonium, and Beauty</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/04/06/aging-plutonium-and-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am now blogging regularly on Huffington Post, it does not seem practical to try to post separately on this blog as well as on that one.  So with this post I am merging the two.  To maintain compatibility with this blog location, and to retain the email notifications of new posts that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=662&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congregational Buddhism</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/03/11/congregational-buddhism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second of the three styles of Buddhism I call “congregational Buddhism.”  This is the layperson-oriented, worship-centric kind of Buddhism that the vast majority of the Buddhists in today’s world actually practice.  In the U.S., almost all of the so-called “ethnic Buddhist” temples and churches practice this style; this would include Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=648&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Monasteries and Retreat Centers</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/03/02/reflections-on-monasteries-and-retreat-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing recently about what I call “sanctuary Buddhism,” that aspect of Buddhism in the West that serves as a refuge and sanctuary for people who are suffering or are having unusual difficulties.  I want to talk this week about a related topic, the spread of Buddhist retreat centers and monasteries in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=642&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctuary Buddhism: The Shadow</title>
		<link>http://agingasaspiritualpractice.com/2011/02/18/sanctuary-buddhism-the-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the first of three ‘styles’ of Buddhism—sanctuary Buddhism.  The sanctuary aspect of any religion offers help or solace to those in pressing need—whether it is physical, psychological, or emotional.  People who are vulnerable and in need often come to Buddhist places because they feel an affinity with a Buddhist world-view.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingasaspiritualpractice.com&amp;blog=6400559&amp;post=633&amp;subd=lewrich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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