{"id":47226,"date":"2022-06-28T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47226"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:10:10","slug":"free-from-the-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/06\/28\/free-from-the-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Free FROM the person."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know this is probably going to sound like word juggling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And therefore there\u2019s a fair chance it doesn\u2019t mean anything to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry if that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can go now and eat some cheese, a sandwich, or a piece of melon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or French fries (I LOOOOOOVE fries).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe nothing, because maybe you\u2019re intermittent fasting right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you study enlightenment, when you read up about it, you always find that the sages and the teachers and the gurus say that it\u2019s not for the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People don\u2019t get enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enlightenment is already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that\u2019s what they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re becoming free FROM the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not AS the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not AS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hahaha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you know what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that mean anything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, not for the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the experience OF the person gets a lot less constricted, tight, and anxious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less personal, less serious, less narrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that’s really good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to go and eat something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @mitchel3uo, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know this is probably going to sound like word juggling. And therefore there\u2019s a fair chance it doesn\u2019t mean anything to you. Sorry if that\u2019s the case. You can go now and eat some cheese, a sandwich, or a piece of melon. Or French fries (I LOOOOOOVE fries). Or maybe nothing, because maybe you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47227,"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":""},"categories":[99,102,97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226"}],"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=47226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47230,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226\/revisions\/47230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}