{"id":1911,"date":"2022-07-05T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:31:08","slug":"transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1916 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220118_Lake-prior-reds_DSC01009_x180.jpg\" alt=\"Clear Lake dusk\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When I sit, I start out having to relax and calm down, to let go of my mind, and hopefully to find my impermanence and some equanimity toward a little bit of pain around the edges.\u00a0 \u00a0If I do drop into where I am now, I experience movement in the location of self-awareness, but I can double-down on \u201cfree to move through the whole body and as though in open space\u201d.\u00a0 I surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How much can I transition to action initiated in the stretch of ligaments, and stop moving myself around, I wonder lately.\u00a0 A lot to learn, between the pelvis and the spine, between the lower spine and the thoracic spine, and between the neck and the head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My late teacher Wu Tsu said, \u201cWith this turtle-nosed snake, you must have the ability not to get your hands or legs bitten. Hold him tight by the back of the neck with one quick grab. Then you can join hands and walk along with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0(Yuanwu, &#8220;The Blue Cliff Record&#8221;; tr Cleary &amp; Cleary, p 144)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bound to be bitten by Wu Tsu, if I take his advice to mean there&#8217;s something I should do.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about realizing a cessation of &#8220;doing&#8221;, but I think I might run into him, in the stretch of ligaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I sit, I start out having to relax and calm down, to let go of my mind, and hopefully to find my impermanence and some equanimity toward a little bit of pain around the edges.\u00a0 \u00a0If I do drop into where I am now, I experience movement in the location of self-awareness, but I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=1911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}