{"id":12,"date":"2007-09-15T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=12"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:26:03","slug":"practice-period-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Practice Period Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As excited as I am about starting practice period, I am also resistant. My &#8220;pattern interrupt&#8221; for this month is not reading while I eat and while I get dressed. So while I was dressing this morning, I kept picking up my book automatically and then catching myself and putting it down. I spent most of the time noticing how annoyed I was at not being able to do my regular thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/blaming.jpg\" title=\"blaming.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/blaming.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"blaming.jpg\" title=\"blaming.jpg\" \/><\/a>My menu item for today is &#8220;notice blaming.&#8221; The challenge will be to just notice it, not to judge it, or castigate myself for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in what the rest of the zen group is doing during this period. If any of you think it&#8217;d would be helpful to your awareness practice to write in this blog, I&#8217;d be happy to have you. And it&#8217;s very easy&#8211;just push the <strong>comment<\/strong> button below and type in the box that comes up. Then put <strong>submit comment<\/strong>, and you are done! The more adventurous among you can even post images.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to write here most practice period days, to heighen my own awareness, and to perhaps bring me out of my mechanicalness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As excited as I am about starting practice period, I am also resistant. My &#8220;pattern interrupt&#8221; for this month is not reading while I eat and while I get dressed. So while I was dressing this morning, I kept picking up my book automatically and then catching myself and putting it down. I spent most [&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-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}