{"id":5848,"date":"2014-05-20T05:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:41:22","slug":"think-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5848","title":{"rendered":"Think about this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I was reading a Buddhist book written by a westerner and I found some interesting reflections about time that I would like to share with you. The writer points to the subjective nature of time. These are the exact words:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8221; &#8230;The more we are bound in reaction, the more slowly time seems to pass. When we are fighting pain, the pain seems to last forever. When we are intoxicated by bliss, the state seems to last forever. The more prominent the sense of &#8220;I&#8221; in relationship to what we are experiencing, the more conscious we are of time. Recall the last time you were bored. Did time go quickly or slowly?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The perception of time depends on the degree of separation from what we experience. Contrast the experience of intoxicating bliss or all- consuming pain with the experience of presence &#8211; an intimate conversation with a friend, for instance. In the later, we have no sense of time or we seem to have stepped out of time. Time disappears when we are one with what we experience.&#8221; ( Ken McLeod\u00c2\u00a0<em>Wake up to your Life<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0pg 150)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Make much sense to me to consider that time disappears when we are one with what we experience. And you what do you think about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a Buddhist book written by a westerner and I found some interesting reflections about time that I would like to share with you. The writer points to the subjective nature of time. These are the exact words: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,77,69],"tags":[77,69],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-experience","category-time","tag-experience","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","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\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}