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	<title>Vlastimil Marek &#187; English</title>
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		<title>From women to men (and to themselves)</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2018/11/from-women-to-men-and-to-themselves/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2018/11/from-women-to-men-and-to-themselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jiné myšlení]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matemaste! This is what I’ve been waiting for for almost 50 years of my life. This is my last blog entry in section Men and Women of my blog on Baraka.cz. Finally, I feel I no longer need to warn, complain or plead with anyone. The internet is being flooded with video blogs where handful [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent joy even after forty years</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2018/03/silent-joy-even-after-forty-years/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2018/03/silent-joy-even-after-forty-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; until now, the imaginary dangers of indifference and reluctance (and formerly courage) have yielded to freedom, and they have emerged, though rare, but still, exectioned individuals who have not missed the message of enthusiastic amateur rock (and Amalgam). There was a memorial CD with a recording of the 1978 concert (together with Švehlík), and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rambling On Compassionately</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2014/02/rambling-on-compassionately/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2014/02/rambling-on-compassionately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years I’ve been enjoying my retirement. I don’t rush, I find joy observing miracles of nature as well as beauty of passing women, eating well and watching quality TV – mostly documentaries about nature. Most of all, keeping my mind free of clutter of everyday life. I still have a couple [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Simultaneously (once again)</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/10/simultaneously-once-again/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/10/simultaneously-once-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both brain hemispheres equally – or the two sides of the same coin. I do have a favourite word which I have written about before – my English speaking friends used to be pleasantly surprised whenever I used it (my grasp of English then was limited to what I could learn by reading or listening [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the Love?</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/10/killing-the-love/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/10/killing-the-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my female readers wrote to me: I heard someone say, that the killing of love is what‘s wrong with this world, and it is people who killed it – making it the most serious crime we’re guilty of. Hm&#8230; Love is such depreciated and devaluated term these days, that its true meaning is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fall in Love with Your Own Illusions</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/09/how-to-fall-in-love-with-your-own-illusions/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/09/how-to-fall-in-love-with-your-own-illusions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will use citations from an article written by Dr. Koukolík, who is a promoter of the many recent psychology studies of human behaviour and motivation that (subconsciously) drive us. My blog here will also use some examples of the „seminar goddesses“ type of women and their often irrational behaviour, and women who often don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Place of Home</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/08/the-final-place-of-home/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/08/the-final-place-of-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sanskrit term &#8222;Shanti Nilaya&#8220; translates as The Home of Peace – Sanskrit is the primary ceremonial language in Hindu religion, although it is also spoken as official language in some parts of India. Sanskrit is often referred to as &#8222;the cultured, refined language&#8220; but similarly as Latin, it does not focus on description of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weaver</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/07/the-weaver/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/07/the-weaver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned previously, many spiritually advanced people are able to synchronize, or „plan“ their innermost wishes and dreams into the reality of their lives. People like that are no strangers to power of positive thinking and the impact it has on their lives. In other words, they make their dreams happen (but all „wishes“ [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Life</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/06/the-meaning-of-life/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/06/the-meaning-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my female readers wrote me asking about meaning of life. Her thoughts were: „In my opinion, the meaning of human life is to realize our individual experience in the physical body, with all sense perceptions and thought processes, the relationships with other people, our spiritual development, gaining wisdom and be kind to self [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodhisattva Paradox</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/05/bodhisattva-paradox/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/05/bodhisattva-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human life is full of paradoxes, just like many things in the world. We learn from our own experiences in the school of life, although the fees sometimes end up being too high. In the end, we find that we’re able to understand ourselves, our families and partners so much better when we haven’t got [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I raise my hand for the Nobel Prize</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/i-raise-my-hand-for-the-nobel-prize/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/i-raise-my-hand-for-the-nobel-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sensational news in the paper Mlada Fronta Dnes (published 14 July 2007), an article named “Another baby murder – mother stomped her baby”, spurred yet another passionate debate amongst psychologists and psychiatrists. Their opinions were ranging from “the mother is suffering from schizophrenia or could have been under influence of drugs” to “she is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandora’s Pill</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/pandoras-pill/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/pandoras-pill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The contraception in general, and specifically the hormonal contraception, has been hailed as a tool which supported the sexual freedom of women – such is opinion of most feminists and other experts. Not only young girls, but women in general are exposed to mass manipulation which is now reaching its peak. It’s now a third [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Obstetrix</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/obstetrix-2/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/04/obstetrix-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;means “obstetrician” in Latin. The verb “obstare” means to hinder, obstruct. A famous Czech authority on obstetrics states that this is simply “to prevent a future problem”. I have been invited to a discussion about childbirths by a group of enthusiasts who unfortunately haven’t quite thought it through. My opponent in the discussion was supposed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Crying over spilt milk</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/crying-over-spilt-milk/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/crying-over-spilt-milk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When the communists demolished my grandfather’s apricot orchard and took away his two cows, he was furious and he cried but it was too late. My grandmother then kept saying for years: you should have done something about that before the elections. And that is what I say too: all the moans and complaints (no [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Motherhood and childbirth: a chore or waves of love</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/motherhood-and-childbirth-a-chore-or-waves-of-love/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/motherhood-and-childbirth-a-chore-or-waves-of-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Czech women consider motherhood to be a chore. They don’t want a baby to mess up their lifestyle – this has emerged from the results of long term study of Social Studies Faculty of Masaryk’s University in Brno. The article was published on internet portal aktualne.cz, and was aptly named „The party generation refuses [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Intrinsically Enlightened</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/intrinsically-enlightened/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/intrinsically-enlightened/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dear Vlasta Marek, my partner and I have been following you and your work for quite some time and we also attend your seminars and workshops. We both can very much relate to your teachings. The question we have is whether you have ever met anybody who has achieved enlightenment in person (perhaps here in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Epidural Trip</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/epidural-trip/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/epidural-trip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, that’s right. Judy Slome Cohain, in theUS publication Midwifery Today, describes the similarity with the hallucinogenic trip induced by (illegal) drugs. The statistics in this article are USA related but the epidural anaesthetic is very common in our maternity wards, too. Unfortunately, it seems that we are not immune to ever-growing popularity of opinions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Commandments of the Birthing Power</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/ten-commandments-of-the-birthing-power-2/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/ten-commandments-of-the-birthing-power-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pre-requisite: Perhaps it is too early to start thinking of the future vision in the middle of the obstetrics crisis, with the midwives service cuts and where those brave women who have decided to give birth at the comfort and safety of their home are almost taken for criminals; and all is rotting under the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Birth to (future) Buddha</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/give-birth-to-future-buddha/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2013/03/give-birth-to-future-buddha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At last, after seventeen years here comes the right question: “We are trying for a baby and we would like to raise the future Buddha. What do you think we should do in preparation from our perspective as future parents?” I’m basking in the joy for a moment and despite my loss of hope for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The voluntary death (and a few adages)</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/10/the-voluntary-death-and-a-few-adages/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/10/the-voluntary-death-and-a-few-adages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern psychiatry (and the society) usually approaches unfamiliar things by ignoring them (or sweeping them under a carpet), or simply labeling them a pathology or a disease. The concept of voluntary death is no exception to those unwritten „rules“. If you look at the way it is presented to us, the voluntary death (never [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Death</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/10/good-death/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/10/good-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some cultures deeply respect their elders and look after them well (and the old age is considered the most beautiful part of human life). In Western civilization, the death itself as well as the process of dying is viewed as something to be feared. While some people make provisions to prepare themselves for the absolution [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>To die as born</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/09/to-die-as-born/</link>
		<comments>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/09/to-die-as-born/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps there will be time when the future Homo sapiens sapiens could say: I will die the same way as I was born into this world – in dignity. It’s about being respectful to the miracle of life – the mothers and their newborn babies but also respectful to those who are at the end [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Future (Virtue) of Death</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/09/future-virtue-of-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I will attempt to offer my point of view on the topic of death and dying. My view offers an alternative zen view to the usual and traditional understanding of life. I’m not saying this to excuse my own decisions and I have no illusions that I will be understood in the way I would [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima Sunflowers</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2012/03/fukushima-sunflowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, perhaps I could rename this article to „The Zen Intentions“.  The begginners on the Path enjoy the zen stories and laugh at them but they haven’t got true understanding of them. One of these koans talks about a couple of monks arguing over a cat, with Nansen eventually slicing the cat in half because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorant Bull in a ChinaShop</title>
		<link>https://blog.baraka.cz/2011/08/ignorant-bull-in-a-chinashop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hardly anyone is perfect in all aspects of their life. However, everybody should always strive to improve the ways in which he functions, perceives, reacts and lives. Similarly as in the game of table tennis or any other high focus activity, one can learn a lot just by observing other people’s mistakes. Quite often it’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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