{"id":547,"date":"2014-03-15T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-03-15T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T15:46:46","slug":"e-is-for-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"E is for Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: \"Liberation Serif\",\"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: \"Droid Sans\"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: \"FreeSans\"; font-size: 12pt; }\n--><\/style>\n<p>This I have heard:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I breathe in, I know that I am breathing in<\/p>\n<p>When I breathe out, I know that I am breathing out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I breathe in, I know that I am alive<\/p>\n<p>This is enlightenment, a little enlightenment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I heard this in one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hols.org.uk\/cms\/index.php\/the-community-of-interbeing\">Thay<\/a>&#8216;s dharma talks at Nottingham in April 2012 and it has stayed with me. The idea of a dharma talk is just to listen, to let the words sink into you, not to take notes \u2013 you will hear what you need to hear, which will be different for different people.<\/p>\n<p>So, this bit has stayed with me. Clearly &#8216;know&#8217; here is not know as in I can regurgitate for the examiner, it is something much deeper. Like the psalmist&#8217;s &#8216;know&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/quicksearch\/?quicksearch=Be+still+and+know+that+I+am+God&amp;qs_version=NRSV\">&#8216;be still and know that I am God<\/a>&#8216;. When I truly know, I won&#8217;t be aware of my knowing, I will just be.<\/p>\n<p>So, I just sit with it and, maybe, let it sink into me a bit deeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This I have heard: &nbsp; When I breathe in, I know that I am breathing in When I breathe out, I know that I am breathing out &nbsp; When I breathe in, I know that I am alive This is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}