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		<title>Good Shepherd, Bad Shepherd*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People are like sheep.
Isn&#8217;t that why we have the Christian metaphor of the Good Shepherd? Someone who will tell us right from wrong, who will keep us safe from harm, who will tuck us snugly in the warm blankets of heaven on that last and most frightening darkest night of the soul?
Not all people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A thicket of views</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My father is a kind, generous, and helpful man. He has a good sense of humor and seems always to be happy. He&#8217;s also very conservative.
I&#8217;d always known from the way he lived he that he was religiously conservative. &#8220;Devout Catholic&#8221; is an apt description. But I was well into my adult life before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A granddaughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is me and my first grandchild, 7-month-old Kathryn. She is named for my daughter, Kathryn, and her mother, whose middle name is Katherine. Her mother, Sara, is in residency at a hospital in Buffalo. She and my son Philip came to Eugene last week for her brother&#8217;s wedding. Sara, unfortunately, was granted only 24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 12: Liver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: For background on this series, please read the Introduction to the 32-Parts Project.

The liver is a vital organ (you can&#8217;t live without it) that rests high in the abdominal cavity beneath the right ribs. Although it is not part of the digestive tract, the liver is part of your digestive system.
The liver, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment along the Middle Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post asking &#8220;What is Enlightenment?&#8221; drew some good comments and questions, and I respond to them here, in a rambling sort of way, beginning with a story about soap. Many years ago Robin worked for Colgate-Palmolive. She worked in the quality-control department at a plant where they made, among other things, Fresh Start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulgerhards.com/blog_thisisthatis/2010/01/15/discernment-along-the-middle-way/</link>
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		<title>What is enlightenment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not an original question. Immanuel Kant asked &#8220;What is enlightenment?&#8221; in an essay published in 1784. I don&#8217;t think Kant had Buddhism in mind, but still, it&#8217;s a question worth considering.
In a previous post I wrote about The Island: An Anthology of the Buddha&#8217;s Teachings on Nibbana, by Ajanhs Pasanno and Amaro. Nibbana/nirvana is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulgerhards.com/blog_thisisthatis/2010/01/05/what-is-enlightenment/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s intentions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t recall ever having made New Year&#8217;s resolutions. I may have at one time, but the idea of it &#8211; no matter how well intended &#8211; seems just a lot of wishful thinking. (I do intend, however, to lose the five pounds I gained over the past couple of weeks.)
Just the same, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulgerhards.com/blog_thisisthatis/2010/01/02/new-years-intentions/</link>
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		<title>The island of coolness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Island: An Anthology of the Buddha&#8217;s Teachings on Nibbana is a hefty collection of extracts from the Pali Canon, Mahayana texts, and other Buddhist writings compiled and commented on by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. The two Theravada monks are co-abbots of Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California. Ajahn Amaro handles the first part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulgerhards.com/blog_thisisthatis/2009/12/28/the-island-of-coolness/</link>
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		<title>Arrival of &#8220;Persist&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took delivery of a shipment of Peter Clothier&#8217;s new book, Persist. I have a number of pre-orders to get out, and I was hoping to get that task out of the way for the post office closed. Instead, it was a day of waiting, watching the tracking information on the UPS site. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulgerhards.com/blog_thisisthatis/2009/12/23/arrival-of-persist/</link>
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		<title>Persist to the printer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past several months I&#8217;ve been working with Peter Clothier to publish his latest book, Persist: In Support of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce. The print-ready manuscript and cover went to the printer yesterday.
Persist is a collection of essays about art and the artist&#8217;s predicament written over a period [...]]]></description>
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