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		<title>Departure from Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is finally the day to leave Vancouver to go back to Portugal. I’ve been here three days contacting people and trying to figure out ways to solve my problem. Most of the nights spent here, I had trouble falling asleep thinking about this. I couldn’t even meditate well. I just can’t stop thinking about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=945&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of First Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 9 months of daily hard training, study, writing, eating, sleeping, laughing, fighting, crying, thinking and many other things, the first year is done. Today was the last training day. Congratulations! We made it. Not only had we at the center, but all that supported the center and each one of us individually. Against all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=924&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Hate relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AAARRRRRGGHHHH!!!
I’m possessed by the devil! I’m in the middle of a love and hate relationship. I’m in a mood to kill, or at least to smack!!
Coming to the retreat center a year ago was probably the best thing that I did in my life. Although this is truthful, sometimes I feel like it was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=921&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King of Masks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever felt like you’ve been lying or trying to hide something to yourself? Did you ever realize that your true self was digging from within, and what came to the surface was not what you wished to see? I do!
 
 
Since the program started many things have passed my mind and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=881&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update News&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi&#8230;
I know that I haven&#8217;t written much lately, but the time here disappears very fast. We have been working on some video stuff a few weeks ago for work and for fun, while our teacher Rii was here. The training, although it remains the same, becomes harder and harder. We are running the mountain with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=878&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somethings that we shouldn&#8217;t forget&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackchacal</dc:creator>
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This week, my great friend Raul sent me an e-mail with a very powerful message. The e-mail had a link to another person&#8217;s blog. It linked to a post named &#8220;Ten Rules for being Human&#8221;.
After I saw what it was, I spoke with Shifu about it. He liked the idea so he told to forward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=634&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Semester starts!</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/second-semester-starts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Here we go again&#8230;
Back on the mountains of Northern California. This time for a little more than three months. I&#8217;m staying at the Center at least for one year, until next Christmas. If necessary, I&#8217;ll go back to Portugal for vacation, if not, I&#8217;ll stay here for a few years more.
I arrived January 14, late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=618&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackchacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,
Yesterday was the first day of the last training week for the first semester. After 3 months and a half in the Retreat Center, many goals have been accomplished. I faced physical and mental obstacles, and fell a few times but always got up again. The experience here as been very powerful, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=583&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Darth Vader&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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For all of you who follow my blog, I think this is important for you to know.
Sometimes I don&#8217;t really feel that well. Since they left to Taiwan, things started to get very nasty inside me. Somethings started to collide. Some personalities don&#8217;t fit that well, and the adjustment process is complicated and sometimes painful. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=545&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of time?</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/lack-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of this days, I was talking with Shifu about training and studying, and I told him this: &#8220;Shifu, I do want to train, study Chinese, read some books, etc, but I feel that we don&#8217;t have enough time for everything!&#8221;, for what he answered something like this &#8220;You don&#8217;t need time, you need organization&#8230;&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=525&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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