{"id":420,"date":"2007-06-16T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2007\/06\/16\/each-thing-is-related-is-that-the-point\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:14","slug":"each-thing-is-related-is-that-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Each &#8216;thing&#8217; is related . . . Is that the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take the title of this post from Arthur&#8217;s message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is not one thing related to another\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Why? Because each thing is related with every thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0No need to worry about simplifying the exercise. Just keep in mind that there are always more depths to explore, that each experience is the starting point for a new experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Arthur, &#8220;distance&#8221; is (as we say in English) a two-edged sword. It is very important not to be caught in the content of experience. But when you say that from a great height you can&#8217;t see someone&#8217;s sadness, that is not necessarily a good thing. For the person, the sadness is real, and our not seeing it is a kind of rejection.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Peter, sometimes there is resistance. That&#8217;s how it is. Just don&#8217;t let it be the final position.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0In English we speak of pointing something &#8216;out&#8217; (I suppose in German this is like &#8216;an-zeigen&#8217;. The &#8216;out&#8217; here has a kind of finality to it. Once something is pointed <u>out<\/u>, it is that way forever. Transcendence of Pointings says that nothing ever gets pointed <u>out<\/u>. There is just the ongoing, mutually related activity of\u00c2\u00a0<u>pointing<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the theme of &#8220;failing to act on our good intentions,&#8221; just look for occasions that when you don&#8217;t do what you yourself would be the best thing to do. What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take the title of this post from Arthur&#8217;s message: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is not one thing related to another\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Why? Because each thing is related with every thing. \u00c2\u00a0No need to worry about simplifying the exercise. Just keep in mind that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=420\">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-420","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\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}