{"id":1391,"date":"2019-04-15T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:20:41","slug":"in-praise-of-ordinariness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/in-praise-of-ordinariness\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Ordinariness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"main\">So here we are, just doing the daily business, whether it&#8217;s called a work day, a retreat, a sabbatical, a goof-off day, or a super-intense practice day. We do what we do, the doing happens by itself, and then we name it, or claim it, perhaps weighting it with a certain value or perhaps not &#8212; perhaps remembering equanimity in success or failure, in praise or blame, or perhaps not, perhaps remembering radical self-acceptance, or perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the question arises about how to live a non-dual life (Don&#8217;t you just LOVE the mind!?) And then perhaps remembering the ancient Chinese wisdom:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"main\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Don&#8217;t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><span class=\"main\">From The Mind of Absolute Trust<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"main\">by Seng T&#8217;san, 6th century Chan Buddhist<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"main\">tr. Stephen Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"main\">Happy Now, 2011 not withstanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ordin-037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ordin-037.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ordin-037-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ordin-037-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ordin-037-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are, just doing the daily business, whether it&#8217;s called a work day, a retreat, a sabbatical, a goof-off day, or a super-intense practice day. We do what we do, the doing happens by itself, and then we name it, or claim it, perhaps weighting it with a certain value or perhaps not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meanderings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}