{"id":7775,"date":"2010-11-01T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2010-11-01T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:56:13","slug":"taiji-lesson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/taiji-lesson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiji Lesson #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xc9XupC8k74?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xc9XupC8k74?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Another random lesson from Taiji class:<\/p>\n<p>To master Taiji faster, forget all your preconceptions&#8230;<br \/>\nand even doubts,<br \/>\nand accept the instructions on how to move properly,<br \/>\nbefore asking anything later.<\/p>\n<p>As this is not the receiving of spiritual truth,<br \/>\nbut only physical instructions, this is alright<br \/>\n(even if seems to be the opposite of the Kalama spirit of active enquiry at first).<br \/>\nA humble and empty mind makes for easier learning.<\/p>\n<p>(The video is the classic Zen story of emptying your cup before filling it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another random lesson from Taiji class: To master Taiji faster, forget all your preconceptions&#8230; and even doubts, and accept the&#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":[214,194,107,18],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-doubt","tag-humility","tag-truth","tag-zen","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","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=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}