{"id":116,"date":"2003-02-01T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T05:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=116"},"modified":"2003-02-01T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2003-02-02T05:08:36","slug":"88408436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/88408436\/","title":{"rendered":"88408436"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my new read, <a href=\"http:\/\/gassho.blogspot.com\/\">gassho<\/a>, Jack writes an elegant summary of the roots of six major religions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lunch today with Koshin Ogui who heads Chicago&#8217;s Midwest Buddhist temple. He suggests that religion is at the root of our political and cultural worldviews and that there are two genres of religions &#8212; mountain-field religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and desert religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity). The ethos of desert religions is survival by resisting and opposing nature &#8212; the dualistic perspective; the ethos of mountain-field religions is survival by being in harmony with nature &#8212; the oneness perspective. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe, maybe not, but it is a nice starting point for thinking about things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my new read, gassho, Jack writes an elegant summary of the roots of six major religions: Lunch today with Koshin Ogui who heads Chicago&#8217;s Midwest Buddhist temple. He suggests that religion is at the root of our political and cultural worldviews and that there are two genres of religions &#8212; mountain-field religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and desert religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity). The ethos of desert religions is survival by resisting and opposing nature &#8212; the dualistic perspective; the ethos of mountain-field religions is survival by being in harmony with nature &#8212; the oneness perspective. Maybe, maybe not, but it &#8230;<\/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-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-88408436","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}