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		<title>Being Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the 1970&#8242;s, it&#8217;s been common to hear the expression, “I just want to be myself.” Intuitively, we know that most of our manifestation is part of a masquerade, that a lot of what we&#8217;re doing and a lot of what we&#8217;re saying isn&#8217;t powerful. Part of us remembers what it was like to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2011/08/being-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Toward More Powerful Affirmations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, the great gift of Dr. Wayne Dyer&#8217;s “Excuses Be Gone” is the clarification that standard affirmations don&#8217;t work. A standard affirmation is one made in a tone of supplication, of trying to get something you don&#8217;t have, of trying to be something that you think you are not. Wayne&#8217;s teaching that the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2011/08/a-gift/</link>
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		<title>Stuck on a Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Zen stories goes something like this: Two monks were traveling to another monastery. At one point they reached a river, where a young woman was standing, staring at the ominous crossing. The elder of the two monks lifted her up and carried her to the other bank. The two monks then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2011/07/stuck-on-a-rule/</link>
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		<title>A Direct Experience of Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that one of the main goals of Zen Buddhism, to have a direct experience of reality, is the only way to live a life. Everything else is a third-person experience of a life. We don&#8217;t live lives directly. We live them by proxy. Perhaps we do this in an effort to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2010/06/a-direct-experience-of-reality/</link>
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		<title>Enlightenment for the Ego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the West, we seek enlightenment as freedom from psychological pain. We maintain our ego-based identity, staying true to its paradigm of separation and selfishness, hoping in desperation that we can add something to the ego-complex to fix its imbalance. &#8220;Surely, this next book will contain the answer I&#8217;m looking for, even though I&#8217;ve already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2009/10/enlightenment-for-the-ego/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Simple Is True</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons, I think, that the world of Disney is so compelling, is the promise of the very hopeful Jiminy Cricket character in the animated film Pinocchio: When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you At some deep inner place, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2009/08/whats-simple-is-true/</link>
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		<title>Separation is Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are separate from everything, you are able to have everything. It&#8217;s strange to say, but when you are separate, you aren&#8217;t separate. Jesus opens the door for this with his words about &#8220;being in the world, but not of the world.&#8221; Real beauty, real joy, indeed, a real life, can actually begin when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2009/08/separation-is-everything/</link>
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		<title>The Only Way Out Is Through</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man called me one day from Nevada. Let&#8217;s call him Bill. Bill wanted a long-distance healing for his wife, who was stuck in Morocco. Even though he is an American citizen, and legally married his Moroccan wife, the American embassy would not let her out of her own country, and it had been this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2009/04/the-only-way-out-is-through/</link>
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		<title>Judgment Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weeding out the thoughts that we have accepted from outside of ourselves is one of the main tasks that we have as human beings in the &#8220;pursuit&#8221; of true freedom. Whether we accepted them voluntarily or not, and whether we accepted them consciously or not, doesn&#8217;t matter. We are ultimately responsible for everything that ends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2007/12/judgment-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<title>A Definition of Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The personal ego is nothing more than a collection of things that you identify with. It is this collection that wholly comprises your balance of karma. Your karma is that fun thing that you get to carry around from one incarnation to the next trying to understand and resolve. From the Cartesian model, the loftiest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayates.byethost33.com/blog/2007/11/a-definition-of-mind/</link>
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