{"id":1823,"date":"2010-11-06T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2010-11-06T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:41:24","slug":"koan-question-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"Koan Question (sort-of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we anything more than the sum of our fears?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.  Hopefully the answer is &#8220;yes&#8221; &#8212; but not by much, if at all!  The Buddhists say there is &#8220;no self&#8221;. If the self is but the sum of one&#8217;s fears, then it&#8217;s pretty much a non-entity.  <\/p>\n<p>So how do we go beyond being but the sum of our fears?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we anything more than the sum of our fears? Think about it. Hopefully the answer is &#8220;yes&#8221; &#8212; but not by much, if at all! The Buddhists say there is &#8220;no self&#8221;. If the self is but the sum of one&#8217;s fears, then it&#8217;s pretty much a non-entity. So how do we go beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}