
{"id":637,"date":"2016-07-17T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=637"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:06:55","slug":"finding-the-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Finding the &#8220;I&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote to a friend:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I have now collected some of my writing into a single PDF, which I titled &#8220;A Natural Mindfulness&#8221;. I have included some of your responses to &#8220;Waking Up and Falling Asleep&#8221;, at the start of the work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I put the collection together because I felt that I had come full circle in my writing, and I sensed that I could put forward the elements that made me feel this was so in one place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I don&#8217;t know if it will be useful to you or not, but I wanted to mention it. The PDF is here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenmudra.com\/A-Natural-Mindfulness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Natural Mindfulness<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I know it might seem like I&#8217;m not doing enough to get the word out about the practice in &#8220;Waking Up and Falling Asleep&#8221;, which we both feel could be important to many people. For me, I need to find a way to realize this practice in everyday life, as a way of living; that is what I have addressed in the writings I have collected, and if in fact I have succeeded in answering my own need in this regard, then I am hopeful that a contribution to the larger society will follow.<\/p>\n<p>My friend replied:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpUJhgBIxLo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpUJhgBIxLo&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">the link above Mark reminds me a lot of your practice where you find your connectedness with the Universe. Finding the &#8216;I&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote back: &#8220;What a beautiful approach; what a gift she has!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My hat is off, to Connirae Andreas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote to a friend: I have now collected some of my writing into a single PDF, which I titled &#8220;A Natural Mindfulness&#8221;. I have included some of your responses to &#8220;Waking Up and Falling Asleep&#8221;, at the start of the work. I put the collection together because I felt that I had come full &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding the &#8220;I&#8221;&#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-637","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\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}