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		<title>Trusting our Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Rad Dad: dispatches from the frontiers of fatherhood Ian MacKaye says in an interview to trust my kid. Iain is two, and already I don’t trust him. I don’t trust him to not scratch the DVDs (just the other night he was pushing the Scrat Pack bonus disc from Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=174&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ahimsa: Don&#8217;t Worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[8-fold Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astanga Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Adele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue my personal journey into the depths of myself through better understanding of the various precepts of the Eastern traditions, I often get hit by truths which leave me short of breath. Most recently this happened while reading more about ahimsa in Deborah Adele’s book “The Yamas &#38; Niyamas.” This is the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=169&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of Goodness</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/09/20/the-spirit-of-goodness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to lose faith in people. When all our information comes from the news media we begin to think that the world is always burning with hatred and danger. When we focus on our expectations of people, particularly in relation to what we feel as our due, we always come out feeling wronged and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=154&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ahimsa: Peace is Not Non-violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, now that I have your attention (if not go back to the last post), let’s actually start talking about what non-violence is and why calling for ahimsa is not the same as the calling for peace or “making love not war.” In most any dictionary you will find “peace” defined not as a condition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=151&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ahimsa: Violence Precludes Non-Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once saw a man burn alive, trapped in a smashed and fiery car after colliding with a military vehicle on an Iraq highway. For some reason I don’t hear his screams or smell his burning flesh in my memory, it is the sight alone which remains, the fire burned into my retinas, its negative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=147&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dinner Discussion</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/09/02/a-dinner-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“So you don’t believe in war?” “No.” “Not even just wars?” “I would have to see an example of a ‘Just War’ to know for sure, so far I have heard of none to earn that name.” “What about World War II?” “What about it?” “Was that not a just war?” “You mean the part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=141&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can I be Vegan in the Military? Volume III: Leftovers</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/08/30/can-i-be-vegan-in-the-military-volume-iii-leftovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the two volumes prior I’ve undeniably argued that military service, at least in the Army where I have the most experience, is incompatible with a vegan lifestyle, particularly if that lifestyle is adopted for ethical and moral reasons. Though I have had some discussion about these things in the office and elsewhere, the argument [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=137&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can I be Vegan in the Military? Volume II: Non-food Stuff</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/08/28/can-i-be-vegan-in-the-military-volume-ii-non-food-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, so the last post ended with me saying we would talk a bit about the commodity status of animals, and that is what we will do. First I would like to try a little visualization exercise to set the mood. To start, just close your eyes. Focus on the breath: when you inhale think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=127&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can I be Vegan in the Military? Volume I: Food</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/08/25/vegan-in-the-military-vol-i-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gurujesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, here is my treatise on vegan-living and its compatibility with military service. Well, not really a treatise so much as a brief introduction. I will not get into the difference in the philosophical viewpoints of Regan, Gandhi, and Francione (search “veganism” on WikiPedia if you would like to start an inquiry into such things), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=120&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Me</title>
		<link>http://gurujessewriting.com/2011/08/23/the-new-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I decided it is time for me to provide a good update. Not only because it has been well over a year since my last post on here, but also because I have been changing a lot and I would like to share with everyone the nature of those changes and where they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurujessewriting.com&amp;blog=9573330&amp;post=108&amp;subd=gurujesse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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