{"id":983,"date":"2012-08-13T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:51:28","slug":"the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"the passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\ni am half way through, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind<\/a>, by the son of the late great trunpa rinpoche. mostly a simple but good read, nothing mind blowing but then i knew that already. nothing is new under the sun and i just need help getting off my lazy ass. firing at all sides to get my practice back in gear and sadly after 16 days of straight meditation, i got super ill and broke my routine. 4 days later, i am still working on another exercise to skip tonight. how easy it is to fall off the horse. no saving grace for my lack of discipline but at least i pick up at least one great insight from the book. i’ve been trying to find a decent way to express that my passion for ‘work’ has been shot for so many x years. usually, i just tell people that i am focus on the ‘business’ for now and although it’s true, it’s not without a footnote. although i am not really in touch with the a lot of passionate\/creative peeps anymore, i get a scent of it now and then. it would seem that it takes a lot of passion to start a photography\/creative endeavor and although i won’t discount that, i will have to say, it’s not passion that will fuel the next 30 years. passion is like fire, you need it to get things going but it’s the slow burn that keeps the warmth late, late into the night. in particular, the book refers to it as ‘gentleness’ and discipline that allows us to go deeper into any practice of our choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i am half way through, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind, by the son of the late great trunpa rinpoche. mostly a simple but good read, nothing mind blowing but then i knew that already. nothing is new under the sun and i just need help getting off my lazy ass. firing at all sides to get my practice back in gear and sadly after 16 days of straight meditation, i got super ill and broke my routine. 4 days later, i am still working on another exercise to skip tonight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":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}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}