{"id":8419,"date":"2017-09-23T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:22:35","slug":"a-journey-through-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8419","title":{"rendered":"A journey through knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peace-walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8420\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peace-walk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peace-walk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peace-walk-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peace-walk-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0This week I put on my Buddhist hat (not literally, though I was wearing a Buddhist pin) and joined a procession of monks and lay people on a half-hour peace walk from the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley to Mangalam Centers, where the Center for Creative Inquiry has its home.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00c2\u00a0walk passed through the campus of the University of California, a lovely and serene place. As the procession passed by the math building, the life sciences building, the main library, the East Asian library, and so on, I found myself thinking that this procession of Buddhist monastics was literally connecting Western fields of knowledge that do not usually make it a priority to communicate with each other. It seems to me we need much more of that&#8211;an ongoing dialogue that brings all the fields of Western knowledge, developed down through the centuries with love and dedication, into conversation with a very different tradition, one with its own ways of knowing. Knowledge on the march!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0This week I put on my Buddhist hat (not literally, though I was wearing a Buddhist pin) and joined a procession of monks and lay people on a half-hour peace walk from the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley to Mangalam Centers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419","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=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}