{"id":603,"date":"2008-03-14T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/03\/14\/in-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:04","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself in practice this morning with a phrase from Milarepa dwelling in my mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the beginning, nothing comes;<br \/>\nIn the middle nothing stays;<br \/>\nIn the end nothing goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having looked it up (The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, courtesy of Google, p. 102), I see that the verse concludes: &#8220;Thus, one remains in the equality of past, present, and future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t so much think about this; it just kept coming back as I focused on present arising of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself in practice this morning with a phrase from Milarepa dwelling in my mind: In the beginning, nothing comes; In the middle nothing stays; In the end nothing goes. Having looked it up (The Hundred Thousand Songs of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=603\">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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}