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		<title>Establishing a daily meditation practice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve struggled for years with wanting to establish a daily meditation practice and never managing it, but we&#8217;re about to start a module in my Mitra Study course which calls for daily practice of at least 30 minutes but preferably 50+ minutes &#8230; *gulp*! I usually end up coming back from a retreat and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitra study presentation &#8211; ethics in the world of everyday existence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our Mitra Study course, we take it in turns to do a project on the modules we study &#8211; and this time it was my turn!  The module we were studying was An Interconnected World &#8211; Buddhist Ethics. I decided to take a more creative approach to my usual research-presentation style and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be the change you wish to see in the world &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just got home from another great mitra study evening &#8211; for those of you who don&#8217;t know what that means, when you make a commitment to practice as a Buddhist in the Triratna Buddhist Community and become a Mitra &#8211; or friend (you can read more about this on one of my earlier posts) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wow, in 2012 I&#8217;ll be 30 .. that&#8217;s sooooo old!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember thinking when I was young that to be 30 would be so old &#8211; and having just turned 30 I am surprised that actually I don&#8217;t feel particularly old at all!  So many exciting things have happened over the past couple of years, I feel like I really am at a turning point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few developments!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCheesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the blog has been neglected slightly of late! Ooops! A lot has happened over the last month or so .. where to start?! Mitrification On 23rd December myself, Sean, Con and Peter became Mitras at Colchester Buddhist Centre in a lovely ceremony &#8211; a photograph taken by Sean of the shrine shows our offerings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An attempt at poetry :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tide comes in Tide goes out Drawn by sun and moon alike Fresh and salty Strong and bold Wind upon my face blows cold Nature here is so alive Birds are fighting to survive Flown from many lands afar To feast on nets and plastic jars? Nature here is now alive Will it carry on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do Buddhists do at Christmas?</title>
		<link>http://www.cheesley.me.uk/2010/12/20/what-do-buddhists-do-at-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCheesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few people ask me now what &#8216;Buddhist&#8217; people do at Christmas so I thought I would put my responses into a blog post and maybe draw in some other bits and pieces along the way! I&#8217;m a bit poorly at the moment with the inevitable winter lurgy so I apologies in advance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a Mitra in the Triratna Buddhist Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCheesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m part of the Triratna Buddhist Community (used to be called the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) and have been going along to the Colchester Buddhist Centre for just over a year now, since being invited on Facebook to go on the young women&#8217;s retreat last January which spurred me on to find a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day &#8211; Tuesday 16th November 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCheesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. ~Albert Guinon]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day &#8211; Monday, 1st November 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~Sir Edmund Hillary]]></description>
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