{"id":9456,"date":"2011-07-12T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T08:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2011-07-13T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:42:16","slug":"zen-dog-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/zen-dog-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Dog Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9457\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/117-217x300.jpg?resize=217%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I like most of Edward Monkton&#8217;s stuff,\u00a0but he got this one wrong&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Being Zenny is not about not knowing where one is going,<br \/>\nor letting external conditions rule over one&#8217;s life without question or reshaping them.<br \/>\nZen Dog above seems too laid back, and probably even fatalistic or hedonistic?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Zen is about being at ease and free from worldly attachments,<br \/>\nbut to just drift and bum around is not Zen!<br \/>\nZen practitioners aim for enlightenment, for instance,<br \/>\nand to guide others to the same goal.<\/p>\n<p>The destination matter,\u00a0just as the ride does.<br \/>\nIf the destination doesn&#8217;t matter, one would be adrift in circles in the sea of Samsara.<br \/>\nZen is the Middle Path between being process and goal oriented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nZen Elephant of Joy<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/zen-elephant-of-joy\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/zen-elephant-of-joy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like most of Edward Monkton&#8217;s stuff,\u00a0but he got this one wrong&#8230; Being Zenny is not about not knowing where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,341],"tags":[513,18],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-photojournal","tag-middle-path","tag-zen","wpcat-241-id","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","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=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}