{"id":364,"date":"2006-07-29T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2006-07-29T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T01:39:00","slug":"meditation-point-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Point #41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in the West are always getting ready to live.<br \/>\n&#8212; Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n<p>While I understand their meaning I&#8217;m not sure I can agree with this entirely.  Depending on your perspective living can be a journey of discovery focused on the outward or inward or a combination of both.  To think that any people have a true understanding on what it is to live is just silly.  If you are a do&#8217;er then your life is wasted if you sit continually in queit contemplation!  Similarly if you are an introspective cerebral person then being constantly consumed with the pursuit of a task\/results driven goal would similarly be a waste.  That being said most people do waste their lives in a state of inaction regardless of their origin being in the West or East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in the West are always getting ready to live. &#8212; Chinese Proverb While I understand their meaning I&#8217;m not sure I can agree with this entirely. Depending on your perspective living can be a journey of discovery focused on the outward or inward or a combination of both. To think that any people have<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-48\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing","category-it-is-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}