{"id":932,"date":"2006-04-15T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T05:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=932"},"modified":"2006-04-15T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T05:17:41","slug":"grounding-practice-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/grounding-practice-so-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounding practice: so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been listening this evening to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daiun-ji.org\/inc\/podcast\/teisho031206.mp3\">podcast<\/a> (.mp3) by Buddhist teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastdirectory.com\/podcasts\/index.php?iid=5417\">James Foster<\/a> on the single most important question in any spiritual path: so what?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. \u00a0 That is the question. \u00a0 It is neither a trivial question nor one that is completley cavalier. \u00a0 In fact it is a profoundly important question in very many realms and it is the utter foundation of the grounding practices that take facilitation, leadership and work from the esoteric to the real.<br \/>\nSo heading into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/wiki\/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OSTPracticeRetreats\">a week of teaching<\/a>, I think I will anchor a lot of what I am doing around this question and play with the way in which the energy of this simple inquiry grounds everything.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]James+Foster, Buddhism[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been listening this evening to a podcast (.mp3) by Buddhist teacher James Foster on the single most important question in any spiritual path: so what? That&#8217;s it. \u00a0 That is the question. \u00a0 It is neither a trivial question nor one that is completley cavalier. \u00a0 In fact it is a profoundly important question in very many realms and it is the utter foundation of the grounding practices that take facilitation, leadership and work from the esoteric to the real. So heading into a week of teaching, I think I will anchor a lot of what I am &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[10,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-leadership","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-f2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}