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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have surmised if you&#8217;ve been following this blog, I am taking a break.  V and I went to Hawaii for 11 days last month, and one of the things that became very clear to me is that I need to get seriously unplugged for a while.  It&#8217;s one of those things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=274</link>
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		<title>Ivanhoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some obscure reason (as my colleague Karl-Heinz Finken used to say) I have been tripping on classic English literature lately. First it was Dickens&#8217; Oliver Twist (which I just adored); now it&#8217;s on to an even nuttier chestnut, Ivanhoe.  Something about the leisurely periods and formal set-pieces just completely knocks me out.  Probably the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Singing with the angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I read someplace that medieval monks imagined that the angels were singing with them when they chanted the divine office.  Recently reading Bernard of Clairvaux&#8217;s sermons on the Song of Songs, I found at least one primary source for this lovely idea, in his seventh sermon:
That the holy angels do condescend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Sufjan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening right now to &#8220;Illinoise&#8221; by Sufjan Stephens.  There is something special about this guy.  I just heard &#8220;Casimir Pulaski Day&#8221; and the sweetness of the banjo and quirky delightful horn arrangements and lines like &#8220;and He takes and He takes and He takes&#8221; in reference to a friend with bone cancer&#8211;not quite pissed off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=270</link>
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		<title>Culturally Christian?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting clearer and clearer to me that in terms of worldview and philosophy Buddhism really can&#8217;t be beat.  But I was born and will remain a &#8220;cultural Christian,&#8221; from my evangelical roots (not as intense as Jesus Camp, but not completely unrecognizable either) to  my current immersion in the contemplative liturgical scripture-infused world of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=268</link>
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		<title>Confluences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, the source of most of my insights about Buddhism, is giving a series of talks at Nalanda West about analytical meditation.  I have been taking classes at his center and reading his books for almost two years now; this week is the first time I&#8217;ve actually heard him teach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Franciscan chant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling especially proud of having tracked down, through interlibrary loan at Seattle Public Library,  a copy of  the Antiphonale Romano-Seraphicum, a 1928 edition of Gregorian chant, Franciscan style.  We decided a couple of months ago to focus our chant retreat this summer (July 20-22) on St. Francis and St. Clare.  I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Out of circulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago the hard drive on my relatively ancient laptop (4 years: how technology underscores the notion of impermance!) started making disturbing buzzing noises; the sounds have become so alarming that I am putting the poor machine out of commission.  On a related note of identity-challenging experiences, I just returned from 4 days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Love and Being</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Cynthia Bourgeault&#8217;s reference to it when I met her a few weeks ago (OK, and a couple of bouts of insomnia), I have at long last started digging into Meditations on the Tarot, which I&#8217;ve owned for years but never read.  I&#8217;m on the second letter, which explores the notion of Love as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=264</link>
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		<title>A new Buddhist-Christian blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very happy to point to a new blog in our little Buddhist-Christian community: Son-Christianity.  I mentioned the writer, In-Myoung Won (Don Erickson&#8217;s dharma name), a couple of days ago.  Within hours of our exchange he&#8217;d launched this blog, and it will be great fun to watch his most fascinating vision for a new community, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lotuslily.net/?p=262</link>
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