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		By: vivian bagley		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vivian bagley]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[a lot of Christians are upset because you can&#039;t pray in public...this is soooo wrong. Anyone of any religion should able to pray as loud or as many as they want...what is behind this ? Obama does not care about old people...they are just in his way...too bad...I heard him say on tv one time and one time only &quot;old people cost too much money&#039;...too bad...so we cost a lot of money ! we are the ones who did with almost nothing during the depression and world war 2....and I mean almost nothing and survived.now we cost too much ! too bad.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a lot of Christians are upset because you can&#8217;t pray in public&#8230;this is soooo wrong. Anyone of any religion should able to pray as loud or as many as they want&#8230;what is behind this ? Obama does not care about old people&#8230;they are just in his way&#8230;too bad&#8230;I heard him say on tv one time and one time only &#8220;old people cost too much money&#8217;&#8230;too bad&#8230;so we cost a lot of money ! we are the ones who did with almost nothing during the depression and world war 2&#8230;.and I mean almost nothing and survived.now we cost too much ! too bad.</p>
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		By: Wowser		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wowser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1289&quot;&gt;Murph&lt;/a&gt;.

Your facts are wrong. Recheck them and reply with more interesting facts about the unemployment rate. Obama came into this administration when it was on a fast decline into Hell and saved and/or created jobs. Your problem is fear and bigotry and I continually find it sad that the sitting American President receives so much hate from Americans and it boils down to fear (and in a lot of cases, racism) because even with the facts are presented to you - you (all) try to over look them in favor of the negative. Not once did you acknowledge the wins that Deepak stated above - straight to the negative comments. Tisk-Tisk! 
And from where I sit, the Health Care Initiative helped a lot of people and will continue to help a lot of people especially those with pre-existing issues that the insurance companies were robbing blind. Republicans don’t seem to care about all those people. People losing their homes and everything else because of cancer or some other chronic health issue doesn’t seem to matter to ‘you people’. Read the entire bill before you judge or make comments that are so asinine that you make yourself look quite foolish.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1289">Murph</a>.</p>
<p>Your facts are wrong. Recheck them and reply with more interesting facts about the unemployment rate. Obama came into this administration when it was on a fast decline into Hell and saved and/or created jobs. Your problem is fear and bigotry and I continually find it sad that the sitting American President receives so much hate from Americans and it boils down to fear (and in a lot of cases, racism) because even with the facts are presented to you &#8211; you (all) try to over look them in favor of the negative. Not once did you acknowledge the wins that Deepak stated above &#8211; straight to the negative comments. Tisk-Tisk!<br />
And from where I sit, the Health Care Initiative helped a lot of people and will continue to help a lot of people especially those with pre-existing issues that the insurance companies were robbing blind. Republicans don’t seem to care about all those people. People losing their homes and everything else because of cancer or some other chronic health issue doesn’t seem to matter to ‘you people’. Read the entire bill before you judge or make comments that are so asinine that you make yourself look quite foolish.</p>
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		By: Donna Miesbach		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna Miesbach]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Deepak! I just wish everyone could read this - and really hear and understand what you are saying. 
Blessings always...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Deepak! I just wish everyone could read this &#8211; and really hear and understand what you are saying.<br />
Blessings always&#8230;</p>
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		By: inkyONE Namaste'		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[inkyONE Namaste']]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[thank you for this article DeepakONE....perfect...:)...my theory is...the masses need another dose of the repubs.....so they can remember how that worked....then they will be able to re elect Obama in 2012....and is the perfection of the ONE...dancing...:)...we humans must be..see..hear..do...or think what we are not...to know what we are....which is Love....thanks again...Love and Namaste&#039;...inkyONE...*:*]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thank you for this article DeepakONE&#8230;.perfect&#8230;:)&#8230;my theory is&#8230;the masses need another dose of the repubs&#8230;..so they can remember how that worked&#8230;.then they will be able to re elect Obama in 2012&#8230;.and is the perfection of the ONE&#8230;dancing&#8230;:)&#8230;we humans must be..see..hear..do&#8230;or think what we are not&#8230;to know what we are&#8230;.which is Love&#8230;.thanks again&#8230;Love and Namaste&#8217;&#8230;inkyONE&#8230;*:*</p>
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		By: mieke		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mieke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1290&quot;&gt;mieke&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;each one of us will have to take a stand for Self Governement under One God....&quot;

Am happy to meet you in the field where we all are One :)
Am walking right next to you!
Love from the heartphone]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1290">mieke</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;each one of us will have to take a stand for Self Governement under One God&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>Am happy to meet you in the field where we all are One 🙂<br />
Am walking right next to you!<br />
Love from the heartphone</p>
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		By: vsaluki		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks like Deepak had this published in the San Frasisco Chronicle.  I posted these comments there.


Thanks, Deepak. You have now made it clear for me that you are a complete fraud as a spiritual guru. You are just another political hack that is taking sides. Your exposition of what you call &quot;reality&quot; shows that you have no interest in explaining reality - only in scoring political points. You should be ashamed. Your statement about taxes going down is an attempt to lie to us. The tax drop is temporary and a part of the stimulous package. Other than the stimulus package, we are basically operating on the Bush tax rates. When Obama&#039;s taxes are finally implemented they will certainly be larger - or at least they would have been had we not elected a conservative congress. In your attempt to mislead us you forget to mention that the unemployment rate hovers near 10%. Much higher than the Bush average. You claim that the economy is growing, but that growth is so pitiful that it can&#039;t keep up with the new people entering the work force.

Now, let&#039;s understand why you are a spiritual fraud Deepack. Truely realized spiritual people do not involve themselves in political issues. From Ramana Maharshi:

Question: Would it not be better if the saints mix with others?

Maharshi: There are no &quot;others&quot; to mix with. The Self is the only Reality.

Question: Should I not try to help the suffering world?

Maharshi: The Power that created you has created the world as well. If It can take care of you, It can similarly take care of the world also... If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours

Question: Is it not our duty to be patriots?

Maharshi: Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that....

As the Bay areas own Alan Watts said, we all play a game of white must win, thinking that we understand what black and white are. Of course Watts got sucked into that game himself. You are playing the game of white must win Deepack, and the enlightened do not play such a game.

Look at Lao Tze and Chung Tzu, Deepak; they stayed as far away from politics as possible. Lao Tze told us that the best ruler is the one who governs the least. The one that the people do not even know is there. Obama is on our TV&#039;s every other day. Chung Tzu refused an offer for a position of political power. He consistenty followed a philosophy of radical individualism. Of course what the Tao teaches us most of all is that both parts of the yin yang symbol are equal, are part of the world, and are necessary. Taking sides is a certain indicator that a man has no spiritual depths at all. You are obviously taking sides - even to the point of taking cheap shots at people you consider to be your opponents, like Palin. I hope your pockets are filling with the money that you are getting by parading as a spiritual guru. You have ceases to fool me.

Chung Tzu:&quot;Why then these vain struggles after charity and duty to one&#039;s neighbour, as though beating a drum in search of a fugitive?&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like Deepak had this published in the San Frasisco Chronicle.  I posted these comments there.</p>
<p>Thanks, Deepak. You have now made it clear for me that you are a complete fraud as a spiritual guru. You are just another political hack that is taking sides. Your exposition of what you call &#8220;reality&#8221; shows that you have no interest in explaining reality &#8211; only in scoring political points. You should be ashamed. Your statement about taxes going down is an attempt to lie to us. The tax drop is temporary and a part of the stimulous package. Other than the stimulus package, we are basically operating on the Bush tax rates. When Obama&#8217;s taxes are finally implemented they will certainly be larger &#8211; or at least they would have been had we not elected a conservative congress. In your attempt to mislead us you forget to mention that the unemployment rate hovers near 10%. Much higher than the Bush average. You claim that the economy is growing, but that growth is so pitiful that it can&#8217;t keep up with the new people entering the work force.</p>
<p>Now, let&#8217;s understand why you are a spiritual fraud Deepack. Truely realized spiritual people do not involve themselves in political issues. From Ramana Maharshi:</p>
<p>Question: Would it not be better if the saints mix with others?</p>
<p>Maharshi: There are no &#8220;others&#8221; to mix with. The Self is the only Reality.</p>
<p>Question: Should I not try to help the suffering world?</p>
<p>Maharshi: The Power that created you has created the world as well. If It can take care of you, It can similarly take care of the world also&#8230; If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours</p>
<p>Question: Is it not our duty to be patriots?</p>
<p>Maharshi: Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that&#8230;.</p>
<p>As the Bay areas own Alan Watts said, we all play a game of white must win, thinking that we understand what black and white are. Of course Watts got sucked into that game himself. You are playing the game of white must win Deepack, and the enlightened do not play such a game.</p>
<p>Look at Lao Tze and Chung Tzu, Deepak; they stayed as far away from politics as possible. Lao Tze told us that the best ruler is the one who governs the least. The one that the people do not even know is there. Obama is on our TV&#8217;s every other day. Chung Tzu refused an offer for a position of political power. He consistenty followed a philosophy of radical individualism. Of course what the Tao teaches us most of all is that both parts of the yin yang symbol are equal, are part of the world, and are necessary. Taking sides is a certain indicator that a man has no spiritual depths at all. You are obviously taking sides &#8211; even to the point of taking cheap shots at people you consider to be your opponents, like Palin. I hope your pockets are filling with the money that you are getting by parading as a spiritual guru. You have ceases to fool me.</p>
<p>Chung Tzu:&#8221;Why then these vain struggles after charity and duty to one&#8217;s neighbour, as though beating a drum in search of a fugitive?&#8221;</p>
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		By: Mother Lightning		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mother Lightning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You are a wise man Deepak.  
Hopefulness is the way, as we learn each day to forgive those who refuse to take the time to understand the human heart.

Working from within, for Peace to All* Always,

Mother Lightning
of[thepeacegarden.blogspot.com] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are a wise man Deepak.<br />
Hopefulness is the way, as we learn each day to forgive those who refuse to take the time to understand the human heart.</p>
<p>Working from within, for Peace to All* Always,</p>
<p>Mother Lightning<br />
of[thepeacegarden.blogspot.com] </p>
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		By: Gyanama		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gyanama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1290&quot;&gt;mieke&lt;/a&gt;.

Yes so true Mieke, Obama meets resistance and knows how to handle it, destroy it, and be the victor of his life, and it doesn&#039;t much matter what everyone else is doing, for each one of us have responsibility to do according to the dictates of our heart and with the true sense of life and love unfolding through us with divine ideas, we then can meet and destroy all resistance and hypnotic influences that try and come to take our natural right to a joyful eternal life..  What many of us are learning through all of this is that each one of us will have to take a stand for Self Government under One God......]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-real-winners-in-this-election-fear-and-confusion/#comment-1290">mieke</a>.</p>
<p>Yes so true Mieke, Obama meets resistance and knows how to handle it, destroy it, and be the victor of his life, and it doesn&#8217;t much matter what everyone else is doing, for each one of us have responsibility to do according to the dictates of our heart and with the true sense of life and love unfolding through us with divine ideas, we then can meet and destroy all resistance and hypnotic influences that try and come to take our natural right to a joyful eternal life..  What many of us are learning through all of this is that each one of us will have to take a stand for Self Government under One God&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		By: mieke		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mieke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Deepak,

You say: &quot;change happens one person at a time&quot;

At the same time you are a large contributor to the measurement society that measures everything in numbers and per cent about how many persons fit in this category, how many fit in another etc. etc.

That in itself is so impersonal and cold calculating.

Databases and measuring instruments will not change the world and will never convince people of anything.

Only direct experience can.
President Obama had and has this direct experience.
He will be able to direct the U.S.A. into the right direction together with the republicans. If someone can He can!

I personally believe that someone like him becomes his best when he meets a lot of resistance.

Just a personal view from a total outsider.

Love from the heartphone]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Deepak,</p>
<p>You say: &#8220;change happens one person at a time&#8221;</p>
<p>At the same time you are a large contributor to the measurement society that measures everything in numbers and per cent about how many persons fit in this category, how many fit in another etc. etc.</p>
<p>That in itself is so impersonal and cold calculating.</p>
<p>Databases and measuring instruments will not change the world and will never convince people of anything.</p>
<p>Only direct experience can.<br />
President Obama had and has this direct experience.<br />
He will be able to direct the U.S.A. into the right direction together with the republicans. If someone can He can!</p>
<p>I personally believe that someone like him becomes his best when he meets a lot of resistance.</p>
<p>Just a personal view from a total outsider.</p>
<p>Love from the heartphone</p>
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		By: Murph		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Murph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First, let me say I&#039;m a big Deepak fan.  However, some facts are enescapable: Under Obama unemployment rose from 8% to 9.6% (and holding), The stimulus was &quot;said&quot; to keep unemployment at or below 8%, growth has been anemic and not nearly enough to lower unemployment. AND, the kicker; Healt Care was side doored on the American people through reconciliation despite a majority warning that they felt it was handled wrong.  The &quot;fear&quot; is that our leader is in over his head and does not listen to all the people.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, let me say I&#8217;m a big Deepak fan.  However, some facts are enescapable: Under Obama unemployment rose from 8% to 9.6% (and holding), The stimulus was &#8220;said&#8221; to keep unemployment at or below 8%, growth has been anemic and not nearly enough to lower unemployment. AND, the kicker; Healt Care was side doored on the American people through reconciliation despite a majority warning that they felt it was handled wrong.  The &#8220;fear&#8221; is that our leader is in over his head and does not listen to all the people.</p>
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		By: Bill		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, I fear. I fear the clear rush toward socialism in this country. I fear being subjugated to a political power whose decisions are something over which I will not have any recourse. I am sometimes confused, but not about the affordability of the direction in which this country is heading, and certainly not about what it is that has brought us this far and will, if we allow it, take this country even further in future. I am very clear as to the failure of socialism. I believe in less government and lower taxes. I believe that entitlements teach us to be victims and I believe in personal responsibility. I want no one making my decisions for me. Yes I fear, and I am not confused. I know what I fear.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I fear. I fear the clear rush toward socialism in this country. I fear being subjugated to a political power whose decisions are something over which I will not have any recourse. I am sometimes confused, but not about the affordability of the direction in which this country is heading, and certainly not about what it is that has brought us this far and will, if we allow it, take this country even further in future. I am very clear as to the failure of socialism. I believe in less government and lower taxes. I believe that entitlements teach us to be victims and I believe in personal responsibility. I want no one making my decisions for me. Yes I fear, and I am not confused. I know what I fear.</p>
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