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	<description>Think Bigger!</description>
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		<title>Open Dojo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Szpakowski An ongoing question for various types of Buddhists, especially those who have been in a relationship with someone they consider &#8220;enlightened&#8221;, is how to carry on in the absence of such an individual. This certainly affects the Vajrayana students of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, with whom they were in a student/master relationship, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/12/open-dojo/</link>
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		<title>Merton &amp; Trungpa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Merton and Chögyam Trungpa: a dialogue and collaboration continued.]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/11/merton-trungpa/</link>
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		<title>How to Invoke Magic and Revitalize the Third Jewel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How will the Vidyadhara&#8217;s original, authentic teachings be perpetuated beyond our lifetimes? Without living examples of the forms that he developed for the path that he taught, will books, CDs and DVDs be enough to perpetuate his teachings? Suzanne Duarte explores our options. &#160; We will be haunting you Along with the dralas. Jolly good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/06/third-jewel-magic/</link>
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		<title>Chögyam Trungpa &#8211; Tribute 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chewyguru&#8217;s (Gesar Mukpo&#8217;s) slide/music collage tribute to his perfect teacher and dad, on the anniversary of the death of Chögyam Trungap, Rinpoche. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/04/ctr-tribute-2011/</link>
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		<title>Buddha&#8217;s Last Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buddha’s Last Words Stephen Batchelor has recently written a particularly interesting book, Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist.  In it, he tells his own story of embracing, then rejecting, both Tibetan Buddhism and Zen.  He weaves in his interpretation of the life story of the Buddha.  He attempts to strip out all the elements that Siddhartha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/01/last-words/</link>
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		<title>Pönlop Rinpoche—time for a change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Barbara Blouin I just read Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche&#8217;s new book, Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom, published by Shambhala Publications. When I read this short passage from the final chapter, I thought it could prompt some interesting discussion here. The pioneers of Western Buddhism had to overcome certain barriers in order to make sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2011/01/ponlop-rebel/</link>
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		<title>Questioning in a Spiritual Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Role of Questioning in a Spiritual Community Spiritual communities vary of course, but there is a history, with its corresponding literature, of how some of them have not only abused power but also undermined the confidence and goodness of their members. Most of us enter a spiritual path with curiosity, openness, and a willingness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2010/12/questioning/</link>
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		<title>In Appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Appreciation for the Warriors of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche CTR said that our path is that of the refugee For his students, everythings seems to be going according to plan &#8220;What if you were enlightened tomorrow?&#8221; CTR asked one time? We might do well to ask: What if we got everything we wanted right now? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2010/12/in-appreciation/</link>
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		<title>The Wheel is Turning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a roundup of some of the latest goings-on related to Shambhala International and to dharma in today&#8217;s world. Jim Gimian conducted a video interview with Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, the tulku, still a teenager, of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. This makes a great follow-up to Gesar Mukpo&#8217;s Tulku movie (trailer on YouTube), and might even be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2010/12/the-wheel/</link>
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		<title>Quotations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[compiled by Norm Hirsch Quotations from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (The former, by CTR, are in regular type) (The latter, by SMR, are in italics) Nobody has given up hope of attaining enlightenment. Nobody has given up hope of getting out of suffering. That is the fundamental spiritual problem that we have. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radiofreeshambhala.org/2010/10/quotations/</link>
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