{"id":378,"date":"2003-05-15T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2003-05-16T02:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2003-05-15T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2003-05-16T02:25:53","slug":"born-again-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"born again something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CRW_0498.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/CRW_0498.jpg?resize=300%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CRW_0512.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/CRW_0512.jpg?resize=300%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CRW_0526.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/CRW_0526.jpg?resize=300%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n_rincophe. as real and lovable as it gets. sorta like a young chinese santa clause. simply brilliant and cool.<\/p>\n<p>words can&#8217;t describe it and feelings only get in the way. after 10 days of a dzogchen retreat with one of the most amazing teachers i&#8217;ve witness, i am born again with an appreciation and devotion for all the glory that is the path. i had to drag myself to the retreat and i had to drag myself away from the retreat. it&#8217;s a sign of something. anyway, i am still decompressing from the experience and i am knee deep in orange shit. but i am not so concern because i am in the buddha zone. all forms are empty. ha ha., now i finally get it. not just on the intellectual level either. i actually was introduce to my unborn face. there is no going back. the path has taken a major fork and it leads to the &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/157062772X\/qid=1053047558\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/103-8926297-9125429?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">secret of the vajra world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>one day when i look back on this week, this year for this matter and i will say to myself, &#8216;wow, i bow to you.&#8221;. ha ha. of course, the irony is that as soon as i say that i will have to stab myself in the back! AH. the joys of spirtual development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>_rincophe. as real and lovable as it gets. sorta like a young chinese santa clause. simply brilliant and cool. words can&#8217;t describe it and feelings only get in the way. after 10 days of a dzogchen retreat with one of the most amazing teachers i&#8217;ve witness, i am born again with an appreciation and devotion for all the glory that is the path. i had to drag myself to the retreat and i had to drag myself away from the retreat. it&#8217;s a sign of something. anyway, i am still decompressing from the experience and i am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-spirtuality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}