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		<title>Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Is there an ethical argument in favor of flesh consumption? That is, can a meat-eating human find solid moral ground for her more carnivorous appetites?"]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/05/eat-pray-kill-the-basic-brutality-of-eating/</link>
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		<title>The Liberating Embrace of Uncertainty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These lives we live, surrounded by beauty and horror, profound knowledge and pitiful ignorance, are a mystery to us all. To push that truth away with false certainty, falsely derived from either religion or reason, is to miss our most perfect truth.]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/05/the-liberating-embrace-of-uncertainty/</link>
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		<title>Buddhism and the Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Many have interpreted <em>anatta</em> to be a metaphysical assertion that there is no self, but I argue that this is mistaken." ]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/05/buddhism-and-the-self/</link>
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		<title>Worshiping Narasingha on the Raga-Marga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the right reason to worship Narasinghadeva is as Bhaktivinoda prays, “to beg at the lotus feet of Lord Narasingha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krishna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties.” ]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/05/worshiping-narasingha-on-the-raga-marga/</link>
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		<title>Sri Upadesamrta: Text Four, Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One will suffer if he collects another’s energy for his own selfish purpose, but if he can utilize the energy of someone for the service of Krishna then there is no apprehension of being contaminated by that energy. ]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/05/sri-upadesamrta-text-four-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Review: Religion for Atheists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alain de Botton's attempt to encourage secular society to steal religion's most fruitful ideas is admirable but ultimately hollow.]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/04/review-religion-for-atheists/</link>
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		<title>The Claim to Pluralism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, like everyone else, the self-described pluralists advocate for toleration of the tolerable, and inclusion of that which is entitled to inclusion. And it turns out that for the self-described pluralists, the category of the tolerable and to-be-included extends only as far those who see Philosophy in roughly the same way they see it.]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/04/the-claim-to-pluralism/</link>
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		<title>Is There a Secular Meditation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked if there is a form of secular meditation that I could recommend. Perhaps there is, but the reason behind this question is more interesting than the question itself.]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/04/is-there-a-secular-meditation/</link>
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		<title>Sri Upadesamrta: Text Three, Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We should not imitate the Vaishnavas but rather we should follow. Not <em>anukarana</em> (imitation) but <em>anusarana</em>. <em>Anusarana</em> means to follow in the footsteps. We must understand the difference. <em>Anusarana</em> means sincerity and <em>anukarana</em> is only for pratistha]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/04/sri-upadesamrta-text-three-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Rama Lila: From Vishnu toward Krishna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rama <em>lila</em> draws us beyond Vaikuntha by speaking to us of the possibility of <em>sakhya</em>, <em>vatsalya</em>, and <em>madhurya</em> even while it does not afford us those opportunities itself. In this way it indirectly points to Krishna <em>lila</em>. ]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonist.us/2012/04/rama-lila-from-vishnu-toward-krishna/</link>
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