{"id":68,"date":"2023-01-09T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/?p=68"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:30:53","slug":"letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2023\/01\/09\/letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We are evolved to have quick automatic responses to danger. We are taught inapproiate emotional responses. We are all drama queens about some things. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Learning to be non reactionary, to control our emotional response to externial and internal events is a big key to happiness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are many paths to inner peace and understanding that lead to the elimination of suffering, all are long and difficult. Some believe we are all trapped in a cycle of birth, death and rebirth until we finally get it right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: small\">I have lived with several Zen masters &#8212; all of them cats.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-foreground);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-root)\">\u2015 <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-foreground);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: small\">Eckhart Tolle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Some people say I have talent as an artist. I say it&#8217;s not me but the universe. Creating connects me to the cosmic whole where time becomes meaningless. Therefor I cannot not take credit for my art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">I can read and think. I believe I understand about letting go. But something always arises to shatter that illusion. I once believed mediation was about practicing control of oneself. That misunderstanding kept me from progressing . Part of me believes it is a struggle, requiring great effort. Intellectually I understand it&#8217;s just the opposite. LET IT GO.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are evolved to have quick automatic responses to danger. We are taught inapproiate emotional responses. We are all drama queens about some things. Learning to be non reactionary, to&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2023\/01\/09\/letting-go\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letting go<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}