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		<title>Time in Portugal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello my friends,
Long time since I wrote my last post. More than a month as already passed after I left the Center. I left the Center with pure happiness in my heart ready to discover nature in Canada and also a little bit inside myself. I guess that life&#8217;s serendipity always show us that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=948&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>The unexpected!!</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/the-unexpected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends,
Right now I wanted to be writing how amazing my trip to Canada was, because it was really awesome, but I can&#8217;t. A big issue arose. When I tried to re-enter the US yesterday I was refused. They didn&#8217;t allow me to enter in the US for another semester of training. They say that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=942&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Trip I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My great friend Sting (the singer) once said “I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an English man in New York.” I feel like him now, but I’m an alien roaming in Vancouver,  Canada.
The trip starting on July 1st in Rio Dell, Humboldt County, CA and ending on July 2nd in Deep Cove, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=931&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The wildest trip of my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackchacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of the first year. It’s done. We spent the last three days in heavy cleaning. Today, I spent all day inside the big house cleaning and organizing.
Tomorrow is the big day. It’s time for vacations. I don’t even remember the last time I had real vacations. I will spend eight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=928&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of First Year</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/end-of-first-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/?p=924</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/love-and-hate-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackchacal</dc:creator>
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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>Just a few more weeks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/just-a-few-more-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackchacal</dc:creator>
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The second semester of this 10-year program started on January 16th and it will end on June 30th. That means there are only a few more weeks before the end of the semester. It’s amazing how fast this first year passed. At this rate, ten years are going to pass in a blink of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=912&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first Shaolin sequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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On the past week, besides all the punching and kicking stuff that we do, we began training basic routines for the two most basic bare hand sequences of Shaolin White Crane and Shaolin Long Fist.
For those, who train in YMAA and still strive to grasp the basics concepts of our curriculum, Lian Bu Quan (Continuous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=909&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next Step!</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/next-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long period of body conditioning training, aiming to transform a week body of a two hours a day martial artist into a stronger body of a twenty-four hours a day martial artist, finally we got to eat the cherry on top of the cake.
Over a period of six months and a half, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=907&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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