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		<title>&#8220;This difficult World of Endurance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/03/07/this-difficult-world-of-endurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stopped on my morning run to watch a woodpecker jackhammering away at breakfast.  So much headache for his daily bread!
In his Eihei Kokoru, or Extensive Record, The great Zen master Dogen (1200-1253)  speaks of &#8220;this difficult World of Endurance,&#8221; referring to the world system in which we struggle to earn our own daily bread.  Of course, for marathoners and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=716&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escape or confrontation?</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/03/03/escape-or-confrontation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often refer to meditation or running as an escape, and I suppose you can &#8220;escape&#8221; through either activity.  But what do we mean by &#8220;escape&#8221;?  Are we being held prisoner?  What, exactly, are we escaping from?  When I run or meditate &#8212; stripped of reading material, the television, music, the Internet, and pretty much all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=709&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tricks are for kids</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/27/tricks-are-for-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the start of my 2010 training, although I&#8217;m not entirely certain of my race schedule yet.  The great early 13th-century Chinese Zen Master Hengchuan (quoted in this richly fascinating and inspiring book)  said of personal meetings with his teacher, &#8220;When Tianmu was alive, when I was face to face with him, all tricks were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=703&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shoes for the homeless</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/22/shoes-for-the-homeless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know I try to be an advocate for our homeless neighbors.  For those in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, here&#8217;s a link to an organization who takes your old running shoes and provides them for homeless people to wear &#8212; those shoes may not be good for running any more, but they&#8217;re still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=700&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Training break #168</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/19/training-break-168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my critics have said, &#8220;Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.&#8221;  They&#8217;re partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein, and for good reason.  One of my principles is: don&#8217;t overcoach. 
&#8211; Bill Bowerman
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		<title>Sitting, with thoughts of running</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/13/sitting-with-thoughts-of-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://runwithmu.com/?p=693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in the den this morning, our cat Linus snoozing on the blanket next to me, the world outside  covered in snow that absorbed sound like a sponge &#8212; still and quiet.  The smell of the coffee.  Somewhere, a bird made a brief fuss, then silence again.
Even while gazing at the white stuff on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=693&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Training break #167</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/05/training-break-167/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to water the seeds of joy in your practice by engaging in the activities that completely absorb you, that develop the same things mindfulness does:  concentration, focus, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
&#8211; Cheri Maples, quoted in &#8220;She&#8217;s Got The Beat&#8221;, Tricycle Winter 2009 issue
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		<title>A passion for the practice</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/02/01/a-passion-for-the-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in quite awhile I didn’t run at all over the weekend – I was participating in a weekend sesshin at our zendo that started Friday night and lasted until noon on Sunday. Every sesshin has its own subtle energies, its own memorable moments and flashes of insight that emerge from the silence and stillness. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=681&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s get still</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/01/27/lets-get-still/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://runwithmu.com/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live in or are just visiting the Dallas area and are looking for some Thursday night zazen action, please join me at Saint Christopher&#8217;s Episcopal Church (7900 W. Lovers Lane, SW corner of Lovers Lane and North Central Expressway) each Thursday evening beginning tomorrow, January 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm.  It&#8217;s sponsored by my very awesome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=675&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How long is that marathon?</title>
		<link>http://runwithmu.com/2010/01/26/how-long-is-that-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://runwithmu.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy koans of all kinds. There are the many collections of classic Zen koans, such as The Gateless Gate; I always have one volume of those working and simply read one or two a day for entertainment, like Aesop’s Fables. Then there’s the koan I’m currently sitting/running with, that latest in a series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=runwithmu.com&blog=7036398&post=665&subd=runwtihmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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