{"id":158,"date":"2009-10-04T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-10-04T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:35:51","slug":"labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Labeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-159 alignleft\" title=\"labelmaker\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/labelmaker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"labelmaker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Having a thought that I&#8217;m not a very good thought-labeler. Hey! I just did it! Okay, having a thought that I&#8217;m not that bad of a thought-labeler.<\/p>\n<p>It is just so interesting to me the strength of my desire to be elsewhere. Anywhere else but where I am. In the morning I look-forward to sitting. And then I set down and say my practice intention and take a breath or two and suddenly I am looking-forward to waking my husband up! How does that happen?<\/p>\n<p>We have a new-ish student in our zen group. During sharing he recounts how hard he is working to be present. He sounds amazed that he can&#8217;t do it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcan&#8217;t be present all the time. During sharing, we don&#8217;t have cross-talk. It is a time to talk about your own experience of practice. But it is all I can do not to say, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing this every day for 15 years and I am still only present for a tiny part of any day!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a thought that I&#8217;m not a very good thought-labeler. Hey! I just did it! Okay, having a thought that I&#8217;m not that bad of a thought-labeler. It is just so interesting to me the strength of my desire to be elsewhere. Anywhere else but where I am. In the morning I look-forward to sitting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perseverance","category-practice-period"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}