{"id":11688,"date":"2015-09-05T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2015-09-06T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T18:44:09","slug":"11688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/11688\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeling Potatoes is Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not Nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Alan Watts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0065_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0065_small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0065_small\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0065_small.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0065_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0065_small-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don&#8217;t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Alan Watts<\/p>\n<p>Too much thinking &#8230; let&#8217;s just think Nothing and Relax and &#8230; FLOAT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Alan Watts &#8211; quite cool &#8211; We may suffer but &#8230; this is somehow comforting &#8211; isn&#8217;t it?  Another perspective &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideapod.com\/idea\/The-most-real-state-is-the-state-of-nothing\/5348a96a7765624f01410000\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I love this idea:)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all Nothing &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nothing.jpg\" alt=\"nothing\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nothing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nothing-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ncredit to modern calligrapher Eishu http:\/\/eishu.bananapage.net\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Nothing&#8230; Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. &#8211; Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don&#8217;t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}