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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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=84</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=61</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=42</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=22</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=13</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=11</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://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Falling for Mental Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mind takes its energy from us. Without us constantly giving it our energy, it would not survive. That&#8217;s why the mind must constantly try to find a game for us to play. The mind uses concepts out of the collective consciousness and sets up really fun premises like &#8220;You aren&#8217;t good enough&#8221;. If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Questioning the Collective Consciousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Western mind is an entity unto itself. It is created by the concepts that we inherit that aren&#8217;t our own. The mind only has a life because we give it our energy. The mind is enforced by the collective consciousness, which is almost entirely a collection of rules, things which constitute right and wrong. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=6</link>
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		<title>Raw Food Poisoning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you&#8217;ve heard it all. A woman came to the raw food potluck the other night claiming that she had suffered from &#8220;raw food poisoning&#8221;. She said that she had to be careful about the amount of raw food she ate. If she ate more than a certain amount, she would feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bayates.com/blog/?p=7</link>
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