{"id":33,"date":"2007-09-30T05:29:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=33"},"modified":"2007-09-30T05:29:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T13:29:03","slug":"mini-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Mini-epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/epiphany2.jpg\" title=\"epiphany2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/epiphany2.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"epiphany2.jpg\" title=\"epiphany2.jpg\" \/><\/a>While sitting this morning, I had a little revelation. It wasn&#8217;t like a bolt of lightning, nor is it crystal clear. But I saw, in a different way than I&#8217;d seen before, the way that being in the moment contributes to peace on earth. I saw how our opinions of everything keep us separate. I saw how I am so busy believing thoughts about this or that person, event, or thing, that I am restricted from being open to that person, event, or thing.<\/p>\n<p>Does that make sense? Do you all know this, and have known this for years, and I&#8217;m just a little slow? It feels like one of those things I learn in layers, each time I gain a little depth of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of you all, I have been surprised on at least five occasions lately to learn that people are reading this blog. I keep running into you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dHi Sue! Hi Todd!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand some of you write me very nice e-mails about how you like my blog. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>My original idea for this blog was that it would be more of a conversation, not so much of a monologue. Though it does keep me focused on practice period, which was one of its purposes.<\/p>\n<p>So, I encourage you to comment. And I don&#8217;t know if I made it clear, but this blog is very private. Only the people in our zen group have access to it. Plus, if you&#8217;d really like anonymity, you don&#8217;t have to use your real name. Why, you could be a different gender. Or age. Or species!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting this morning, I had a little revelation. It wasn&#8217;t like a bolt of lightning, nor is it crystal clear. But I saw, in a different way than I&#8217;d seen before, the way that being in the moment contributes to peace on earth. I saw how our opinions of everything keep us separate. I [&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-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}