{"id":46805,"date":"2022-05-20T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46805"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:13:00","slug":"everything-as-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/20\/everything-as-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything as one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do a little experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out your environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let your eyes wander, your ears be curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observe, absorb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many experiences do you have right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it one for everything you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does every table, cup, person, cat, flower, train, bicycle, chair, itch, yawn, or sense of boredom come as a separate thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or is everything you see (and hear, and smell, and feel) part of just one experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because that\u2019s how it looks to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One experience, containing everything at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sense of a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feeling of a leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sound of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pale blue sky with some sloppy cloud action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cat on the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aren\u2019t all these ingredients of life still part of a single, non-stop experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that it\u2019s all happening within this one thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one thing IS all that is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing, ALL the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can we be that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo by @jacalynbeales, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. Let&#8217;s do a little experiment. Look around you. Check out your environment. Let your eyes wander, your ears be curious. Observe, absorb. Here\u2019s a question: How many experiences do you have right now? Is it one for everything you see? Does every table, cup, person, cat, flower, train, bicycle, chair, itch, yawn, or sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-spiritualiteit","category-eigenwijs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46807,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46805\/revisions\/46807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}