{"id":16248,"date":"2024-12-14T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2024-12-14T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:19:37","slug":"the-self-is-never-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/ivan-tan\/the-self-is-never-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The self is never there."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BurningCar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BurningCar-150x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"BurningCar.jpg\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><\/a> <\/p><h6>First Post.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t take this self so personally. Mind above the flood. Whatever comes flushing. You can see all that is happening with curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s car burning outside. You can&#8217;t help but to observe with curiosity. But when the car you observe is &#8220;yours&#8221;. You begun to act frantic and panic. The &#8220;self&#8221; is suffering. But when is seen through as &#8220;not self&#8221; . You begin to enjoy the show &#8221; wow, what&#8217;s happening? What&#8217;s the commotion?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This life becomes a journey of joyful investigation. No more &#8220;poor me&#8221; mindset. Is just this. You become a moving target. Getting ourselves outside the shooting range. No me there. Everything is just happening by itself.<\/p>\n<p>Wholesome change of just seeing what is happening with a smile. Relax. Can&#8217;t catch dukkha. See dukkha and start getting out the way. Not by aversion but wisdom.<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:issactan112233@gmail.com\">Email<\/a><\/p><p>Views: 23<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Post. Don&#8217;t take this self so personally. Mind above the flood. Whatever comes flushing. You can see all that is happening with curiosity. If there&#8217;s car burning outside. You can&#8217;t help but to observe with curiosity. But when the car you observe is &#8220;yours&#8221;. You begun to act frantic and panic. The &#8220;self&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5911,"featured_media":16250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[160,34,157],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhamma-lesson","tag-meditation-technique","tag-motivation","tag-personal-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16252,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}