{"id":1195,"date":"2013-04-06T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:09:24","slug":"tripod-and-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Tripod and Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting metaphor for meditation we have in the tripod. Something akin to the statement attributed to Newton, \u201cIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.\u201d The tripod lets us see more clearly by establishing a stillness, reducing the distractions of jitter and shake. It allows a smaller aperture so that objects both near and distance are in focus. The capability of a solid grounding allows for enhanced clarity in viewing all things.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can add to the list of parallels if I ponder this a little longer. But why is the monthly Buddhist magazine called Tricycle instead of Tripod?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting metaphor for meditation we have in the tripod. Something akin to the statement attributed to Newton, \u201cIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.\u201d The tripod lets us see more clearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}