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	<title><![CDATA[How a Dog Taught me the Dharma]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/how-a-dog-taught-me-the-d_b_227742.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>One of my best spiritual teachers is a dog. I met her on a silent meditation retreat a few years ago. On that retreat, as, alas, on many others, I had been struggling with one of the petty irritations that meditators work with all the time: restless yogis making noise. This one shifted on her cushion, that one adjusted his blankets -- it was like Grand Central Station in there. Who could meditate under such conditions?</p>

<p>Of course, one of the...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-08T12:52:00-04:00</date_published>
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