{"id":104,"date":"2003-01-17T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T04:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=104"},"modified":"2003-01-17T20:49:32","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T04:49:32","slug":"87625199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/87625199\/","title":{"rendered":"87625199"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0767901576\/002-3420341-4585656?vi=glance\">Awakening the Buddha Within<\/a>&#8221; by Lama Surya Das:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Korean Zen master I studied with, Nine Mountains, used to exclaim with gusto, &#8220;What is it?&#8221; This, his main koan or Zen conundrum, was boldly calligraphed in Korean as a hanging scroll on the wall.  This is an intense, heartfelt, visceral question: &#8220;What the hell is it?&#8221;  That was his whole teaching.  What the hell is going on?  What is this?  Who is this?  This is a fundamental existential question, turning our exploration inward.  What is this presenting itself right now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Awakening the Buddha Within&#8221; by Lama Surya Das: The Korean Zen master I studied with, Nine Mountains, used to exclaim with gusto, &#8220;What is it?&#8221; This, his main koan or Zen conundrum, was boldly calligraphed in Korean as a hanging scroll on the wall. This is an intense, heartfelt, visceral question: &#8220;What the hell is it?&#8221; That was his whole teaching. What the hell is going on? What is this? Who is this? This is a fundamental existential question, turning our exploration inward. What is this presenting itself right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-87625199","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}