{"id":380,"date":"2007-09-08T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=3"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:59:58","slug":"post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"After Sesshin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sunset.jpg\" title=\"sunset.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sunset.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"sunset.jpg\" title=\"sunset.jpg\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a couple weeks since I attended a 5-day sesshin at the Zen Center San Diego and I&#8217;m a little sad that the lighter-than-air sensation has worn off. The first week after I felt like every day was magic, all was good. I was probably unbearable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I realized that all my opinions don&#8217;t have much to do with reality. Oh, what an eye-opener. My judgements&#8211;they felt so solid, so real, even as I told myself that they were just mine and had nothing to do with the person next to me or what was actually happening. I guess I should have got a clue when the squiggles in the plaster on the wall I was staring at started jumping around and calling my name. And you should have seen what the figure in the carpet was doing!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Now we head into practice period, and I&#8217;ve got another sesshin (albeit shorter) in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple weeks since I attended a 5-day sesshin at the Zen Center San Diego and I&#8217;m a little sad that the lighter-than-air sensation has worn off. The first week after I felt like every day was magic, all was good. I was probably unbearable. I realized that all my opinions don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}