{"id":537,"date":"2012-05-20T12:53:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2012-09-28T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T21:38:32","slug":"just-like-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/05\/just-like-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/tipitaka\/mn\/mn.018.than.html\">Ball of Honey (Madhupindika)\u00a0sutta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;learning to view feelings not as things but as parts of a causal process affecting the qualities in the mind<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-540\" title=\"honey\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honey-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"honey\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honey-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/honey.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Siona Karen : www.flickr.com\/photos\/sionakaren\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In many ways this has been my primary meditation goal for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Feelings can be untangled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicmindfulness.org\/\">Shinzen Young<\/a>\u00a0(my meditation teacher) talks about using mindfulness and equanimity to tease out the strands of strong feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Once\u00a0loosened, the components of each feeling can be seen individually, for what they each are, then they lose the power to make us act out.<\/p>\n<p>Bound together, feelings are immensly strong, unbound they diminish in intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this quote from the Ball of Honey (Madhupindika)\u00a0sutta. &#8230;learning to view feelings not as things but as parts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}