{"id":30282,"date":"2022-04-30T22:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T05:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/30282\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:29:25","slug":"30282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-people\/30282\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"30281\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_3849.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_3849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_3849-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center\"><p>My Own Awareness<\/p><p>As your hearts and minds wither, the fault does not lie in others<\/p><p>It&#8217;s you who lazily <strong>neglected to water <\/strong>them<\/p><p><br>As you become more stubborn, it\u2019s not your friend\u2019s fault <\/p><p><strong>You are the one who lost the flexibility<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p>When annoyed and irritated, let&#8217;s not fault your close kin<\/p><p>After all, it&#8217;s more that you did not handle everything with ease<\/p><p><\/p><p>As that Beginner&#8217;s Mind fade and disappear, do not blame the demands of daily living.  Ultimately isn&#8217;t the blame on the feeble determination, weak dedication.  <\/p><p>All problems we face, let&#8217;s not blame the world we live in today, having abandoned the glimmer of reverence for our principals <\/p><p>For God&#8217;s sake, Protect your own sensitivity<\/p><p>(You alone possess the power to refine your very own awareness)<\/p><p>What an idiot !<\/p><p><\/p><cite>Noriko Ibaragi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Another tough poem to translate &#8230; what an idiot I am.  Every translation is a subtle betrayal of the original.  Knowing that and to still translate is a sign that I am a real idiot. That I admit to being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Am an Idiot &#8230; only redeeming quality of it is that I am authentically &#8230; an idiot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love Noriko Ibaragi &#8211; our mother&#8217;s and grandmother&#8217;s generation, we had a woman poet like this &#8230; is something that we should all take pride in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is such a badda.. &#8211; oh, cannot make myself say it &#8211; such a prude and &#8230; yes, an idiot that I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My own poetry too embarrassed to share but perhaps someday it is to be recited during the practice.  Anyway &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta go water my goodies to remain flexible and aware through the daily practice.  Namaste:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Own Awareness As your hearts and minds wither, the fault does not lie in others It&#8217;s you who lazily neglected to water them As you become more stubborn, it\u2019s not your friend\u2019s fault You are the one who lost the flexibility When annoyed and irritated, let&#8217;s not fault your close kin After all, it&#8217;s [&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":[4,6,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282"}],"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=30282"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31641,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions\/31641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}