{"id":7713,"date":"2010-10-25T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2010-10-28T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:54:22","slug":"middle-path-between-being-left-right-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/10\/middle-path-between-being-left-right-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Path Between Being Left &#038; Right Brained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/139.jpg?resize=273%2C185\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/139.jpg?w=273&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/139.jpg?resize=96%2C65&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Someone asked<br \/>\nif I was more left-brained or right brained.<br \/>\nNot that I&#8217;m no-brained,<br \/>\nbut I couldn&#8217;t really say.<\/p>\n<p>Are we mostly left-brained,<br \/>\ntoo logical, too methodical, too rigid?<br \/>\nShould we be more right-brained,<br \/>\nmore intuitive, more &#8216;random&#8217;, more creative?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t really say,<br \/>\nbecause I don&#8217;t know your specific inclination.<br \/>\nBut I do propose<br \/>\nthat we all take the Middle Path.<\/p>\n<p>Let us be more middle-brained,<br \/>\nwhatever our inclinations are,<br \/>\nto be more balanced,<br \/>\nto be more complete.<\/p>\n<p>To be really holistic<br \/>\nis to be more whole-brained,<br \/>\nto make the best of our left and right brains,<br \/>\nto use one or the other more when needed.<\/p>\n<p>To be creative is not just to always use the right brain,<br \/>\nas being logical with the left brain helps to be more thoughtfully creative too.<br \/>\nTrue creativity is not restricted&#8230;<br \/>\nnot even by the right brain!<\/p>\n<p>Even the Buddha is &#8216;middle-brained&#8217; (though he is beyond mind and matter),<br \/>\nas we can tell by studying<br \/>\nhis great logical (left-brained) response to the problem of suffering,<br \/>\nhis great creative (right-brained) skilful means to share his solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about the above this way,<br \/>\nfeeling about the above this way,<br \/>\ndoes this make me more left or right-brained?<br \/>\nMore middle-brained&#8230; I hope!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked if I was more left-brained or right brained. Not that I&#8217;m no-brained, but I couldn&#8217;t really say. Are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,57,513,124,58],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-buddha","tag-compassion","tag-middle-path","tag-skilful-means","tag-wisdom","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}