{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-12T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=11"},"modified":"2007-09-12T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:10:12","slug":"natural-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Natural Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/arch_rock_by_asiseeit.jpg\" title=\"arch_rock_by_asiseeit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/arch_rock_by_asiseeit.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"arch_rock_by_asiseeit.jpg\" title=\"arch_rock_by_asiseeit.jpg\" \/><\/a>Hiked Pt. Reyes with KKJ yesterday. Bear Valley out to Arch Rock. We walked through the Sonoma County golden-hills-of-summer terrain, the paleolithic redwoods-and-ferns-and-symphony-of-streams terrain, the live-oak-and-scrub terrain, and finally to the rocky-and-sandy-coastal-habitat-for-seagulls terrain.<\/p>\n<p>KKJ is the guy who gave me the first Joko Beck book. We have been hiking and talking about zen thoughts, zen theories, for 15 years. However, he doesn&#8217;t sit, doesn&#8217;t really have a practice, and hasn&#8217;t read Beck in years, so our conversations are getting a little surreal. We don&#8217;t speak the same language. But we sure don&#8217;t stop talking the whole way!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we discussed the phrase &#8220;Believing your own thoughts&#8221; which I&#8217;ve sort of just accepted as meaning one thing&#8212;believing the fear-inspired and\/or emotion-based thoughts. But KKJ pointed out that it really says believing all thoughts, even those that are just functional. So we went back and forth on that for a while. I said I&#8217;d ask my teacher.<\/p>\n<p>I am so grateful for Pt. Reyes, for the people who started national parks, for the natural beauty that I can dip into at will up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiked Pt. Reyes with KKJ yesterday. Bear Valley out to Arch Rock. We walked through the Sonoma County golden-hills-of-summer terrain, the paleolithic redwoods-and-ferns-and-symphony-of-streams terrain, the live-oak-and-scrub terrain, and finally to the rocky-and-sandy-coastal-habitat-for-seagulls terrain. KKJ is the guy who gave me the first Joko Beck book. We have been hiking and talking about zen thoughts, zen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}