{"id":3961,"date":"2014-01-11T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2014-01-11T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:24:08","slug":"keeping-your-eyes-open-in-the-zen-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Your Eyes Open In the Zen Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/zendoshadows.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>This pic was taken at the local zendo where I practice.  It was taken during zazen, while everyone else was sitting in a dark room with their eyes closed.  I decided to break ranks and get the camera from my coat pocket and snap the pic, knowing that the perfect sunlight and shadow scene was &#8220;in the moment&#8221; and would not last.<\/p>\n<p>Zen is great; but there are times for keeping one&#8217;s eyes open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pic was taken at the local zendo where I practice. It was taken during zazen, while everyone else was sitting in a dark room with their eyes closed. I decided to break ranks and get the camera from my coat pocket and snap the pic, knowing that the perfect sunlight and shadow scene was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}