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		<title>How to meditate properly, and hopefully avoid wasting your life in dead end practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is a very brief outline, and only meant to summarise the key points.] Basics: meditation cushion [zafu] a reasonably quiet space [you don't need total silence] pen and notebook [not a computer or personal organiser] Sitting: You will need to learn about finding a simple, comfortable posture for sitting on your meditation cushion, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/11/how-to-meditate-properly-and-hopefully-avoid-wasting-your-life-in-dead-end-practices/</link>
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		<title>Crucial points to understand about Buddhism:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many books on popular spirituality currently doing the rounds which propose a kind of instant enlightenment, through the idea that you are already enlightened, if only you would realise it, and focus your attention on the &#8216;here and now&#8217;. These doctrines and teachings are at best silly and at worst seriously misleading. Enlightenment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/06/important-points-to-remember-about-buddhism/</link>
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		<title>Bassui on Zen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These sections from Bassui Tokushō (抜隊得勝?) (1327-1387) contain an outstanding account of the essential teachings of Buddhism and Zen. It&#8217;s all here, you really don&#8217;t need to go anywhere else. YouTube- Basui&#8217;s Enlightenment Part 1 YouTube- Basui&#8217;s Enlightenment Part 2 DHARMA TALK ON ONE MIND by Bassui Tokusho Zenji If you would free yourself of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/03/bassui-on-zen/</link>
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		<title>Practical Buddhism: What is Buddhism ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Practical Buddhism: [1] What is Buddhism ? What is Buddhism ? In a word, Buddhism is a quest. It&#8217;s the search for ultimate metaphysical knowledge and insight. It is not a religion, or a philosophy, or a way of life, or a faith: it is an investigative quest. A true Buddhist begins at the beginning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/02/practical-buddhism-what-is-buddhism/</link>
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		<title>Making a start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making a start, on the quest to answer life&#8217;s biggest questions. To begin with, we have to establish a context, or a mental or psychological environment within which to function. You have to get your mind in gear. And the key components of a healthy mental environment are sanity, moderation, and a striving towards the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/11/making-a-start/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Zen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to Zen Zen is a basically radical sect within Buddhism, which is itself a radical metaphysical quest, as opposed to a standard faith-based religion. All of which makes Zen something of an extreme approach to the big questions of life. Zen has come about as the result of the application of no-nonsense Chinese and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/11/introduction-to-zen/</link>
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		<title>What is Buddhism ? (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Buddhism ? Buddhism is basically a quest, rather than a religion. It is a way of approaching the ultimate questions of life, but of approaching them in such a way that you find yourself on a metaphysical journey, rather than simply joining a community, and participating in that community as a believer. Buddhists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/10/what-is-buddhism/</link>
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