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		<title>on bustin&#8217; up sacred cows like piñatas and re-envisioning our frames of reference&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2013/03/26/on-bustin-up-sacred-cows-like-pinatas-and-re-envisioning-our-frames-of-reference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A participant and fellow traveler on the journey created by the new class on Buddhist Tantra which recently set sail from New York Tsurphu Goshir Dharma Center suggested that I write a blog post to explore and refute the analysis of how the Madhyamaka view arose in India as presented by Ronald M. Davidson in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1966&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on Chöd, bodies of illusion, and transmission of the blessings of lineage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2013/02/28/on-chod-bodies-of-illusion-and-transmission-of-the-blessings-of-lineage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader recently reached out on facebook and asked me to write a blog post touching on how lineage inspires us and how transmission works in modern day terms.  Needless to say, I was heartened by her request as I found it flattering, and because I have been playing around with this topic as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1968&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on time machines, weaving words and loosening our belt so that our minds can expand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2013/02/15/on-time-machines-weaving-words-and-loosening-our-belt-so-that-our-minds-can-expand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last blog post touched a lot of nerves- in a good way, from what I can tell, and it also seemed to have displeased others who came away from it thinking that it was written to complain about laziness, &#8216;spiritual materialism&#8217; and the existence of a spiritual marketplace which often become more of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1933&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on the shakedown, being a contender and the tantric rub&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2013/01/24/on-the-shakedown-being-a-contender-and-the-tantric-rub/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my training as a chaplain there was a fair amount of emphasis on learning how to connect and remain with difficult feelings that others were in the midst of negotiating.  Sickness, old age and death certainly shake up a lot of feelings- add depression, psychosis, loss, and physical/emotional/spiritual pain and you really have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1897&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on text, owning our language and the ghostly apparitions of self&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2012/11/04/on-text-owning-our-language-and-the-ghostly-apparitions-of-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been somewhat remiss in writing over the summer- my primary excuse is the time consuming work that I have put into renovating the space that we will be using for New York Tsurphu Goshir Dharma Center. My secondary excuse cuts a little closer to the bone; I was feeling uninspired and unsure about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1804&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On equivalencies and a new dharma center&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2012/07/03/on-equivalencies-and-a-new-dharma-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I find myself reflecting on equivalence.  Yet before I share my thoughts I would like to dedicate this blog post to Lizette, a hospice resident that I had visited who died yesterday.  May her experience of the bardo be one of restful ease! As a chaplain the notion of the possibility of equivalence helps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1730&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On resting with Tilopa&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2012/05/12/on-resting-with-tilopa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have found myself returning to some of the amazingly pithy meditation instructions attributed to Sri Tilopa (988-1069), the well-known Indian Buddhist mahasiddha who was the forefather of the Kagyu lineage.  His short, often poetic instructions, are something that help me in my personal meditation practice, as a ground for keeping myself feeling dynamic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1667&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the importance of certainty&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2012/02/11/on-the-importance-of-certainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a chaplain, one thing that I frequently come to witness in the hospital is the relative personal theological certainty that the patients I meet have established throughout the course of their lives. Naturally the range of established belief is wide and varied; it includes a variety of orthodoxies (Greek, Russian, Jewish, Muslim), as well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1616&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Buddhas behaving badly&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganachakra.com/2012/01/15/on-buddhas-behaving-badly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I heard a story on the radio about the rise of the anti-hero in current television programing. Apparently there is a growing number of television shows for which the main character is an anti-hero; a figure whose moral equations and ethical concerns follow a personal arc that often falls outside of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1534&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A warm new year&#8217;s greeting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Repa Dorje Odzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 dissolves away into another year I feel the need to offer a greeting to all of the dear readers of ganachakra.  The wonderful support and warmth that you all offer me helps me to grow- it is a special relationship that we share; a relationship that I pray continues for many years to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ganachakra.com&#038;blog=14004744&#038;post=1563&#038;subd=karmachangchubthinley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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