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	<title>Girls Gone Zen</title>
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	<description>An Open Journey of Zen for the Modern Girl</description>
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		<title>Lost and Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been more than a year since I have blogged on the Girls Gone Zen site. In the midst of the craziness of life, I can never ignore the longing feeling I crave inside for that spiritual peace. 
I was up in San Francisco this past weekend. Before I got up there, my entire month [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/lost-and-found/31/</link>
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		<title>Cultivating Positive Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blanche re-told the story of the first day she sat in a lecture with Suzuki Roshi. He said, "you are perfect, just as you are." The concept sounds nice - but how does come to such a peaceful relationship with the self? By knowing yourself, studying yourself, and recognizing patterns in your thinking. We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/cultivating-positive-thoughts-2/30/</link>
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		<title>Restoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I drove over the San Francisco Bay Bridge at the height of dusk. The SF skyline was an impending bluish-gray night sitting on top of a deep vanilla-orange horizon. Cranes by the industrial shoreline rested their dark silhouettes against the rich velvety hues. In the car I played my favorite songs from last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/restoration/27/</link>
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		<title>Photographs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at this photograph...everytime I do it makes me laugh...every memory of looking out the back door...I have a photo album spread out on my bedroom floor...It's hard to say, time to say it...goodbye, goodbye...I miss that town...I miss the faces...you can't erase it...you can't replace it...I miss it now...I can't believe it...so hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/photographs/26/</link>
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		<title>Giving it Your Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes William Hung so endearing? Nevermind what he is like now. Back when he was singing She Bangs for the very first time in the American Idol audition, I distinctly remember cringing for the Asian male population as he "stung like a bee" in front of the public, and then miraculously regained all respect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/giving-it-your-best/25/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
"How many people here have spiritual friends?", asked the man sitting in front of the Buddha hall, dressed in a robe so bright, yellow, and screaming of NOT Soto Zen tradition. With a simple and powerful question, he stirred in me an elation and my wandering mind stood still.
Immediately I thought of 99, of Jennifer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/spiritual-friends-2/24/</link>
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		<title>You are Perfect</title>
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to catch Abbess Blanche Hartman&#8217;s lecture at the San Francisco Zen Center. She is Anny&#8217;s favorite teacher (mine is Paul Hellar&#8230; not that we should play favorites or anything  ). An awesome lecturer she is&#8230; always able to keep things down to earth and hit close to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/you-are-perfect/22/</link>
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		<title>Impermanence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Impermanence
n : the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
Lately, random thoughts and memories of the past have entered my head. I was watching Cats and for some odd reason, I was thinking about my cruise to the Caribbean with my mom five years ago. Of course, I only remember certain moments of that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/impermanence/21/</link>
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		<title>Life and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday (3/11) lecture at the Zen Center was given by Blanche Hartman. It was about living the life we want to live knowing that someday we are going to die. 
She stated that the moment we are born, we are basically given the "terminal" diagnosis. We just don't know when it will happen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/life-and-death/20/</link>
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		<title>Let&#039;s Get it Started (Again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
I have  a confession. It's been a while since I attended the Zen Center, did Zazen, or read up on Zen. That, and I copied Scarlett Johanssen's haircut in Lost in Translation. In the back of my head I have been embarrassed by my lack of practice in the Zen matter - it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonezen.com/time-to-get-going-again/19/</link>
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