{"id":278,"date":"2007-01-29T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2007\/01\/29\/at-the-very-point-is-there-a-point\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:18","slug":"at-the-very-point-is-there-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"At &#8220;the very point,&#8221; is there a point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter writes of Ex. 4 that when he goes deeper (and why, he asks, do we always try to go &#8216;deeper&#8217;, rather than &#8216;higher&#8217;?) into experience, letting awareness &#8220;settle,&#8221; he does not find &#8220;the very point&#8221; at which experience arises; rather, experience becomes like a vast cloud, with which awareness seems clear, but not accessible.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an interesting observation. The whole idea of &#8216;points&#8217; may work best as a &#8216;starting point.&#8217; Perhaps later this way of experiencing gives way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter writes of Ex. 4 that when he goes deeper (and why, he asks, do we always try to go &#8216;deeper&#8217;, rather than &#8216;higher&#8217;?) into experience, letting awareness &#8220;settle,&#8221; he does not find &#8220;the very point&#8221; at which experience arises; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}