{"id":8018,"date":"2013-08-25T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:32","slug":"which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2013\/08\/25\/which\/","title":{"rendered":"Which?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Keiji, a long-time Zen student, approached his master and said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how there can be any enlightenment that sets you free once and for all. I think we just get ever greater glimpses of Buddha-nature, the vastness that is our true Reality. It&#8217;s an ever-expanding process.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The master replied, &#8220;That may be what you think. But what is your experience, your experience right now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keiji was confused, &#8220;My experience right now, Master?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Do you know yourself as Keiji, having ever-expanding experiences of Buddha-nature? Or do you know yourself as Buddha-nature, having the experience of Keiji?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/9332712684\/\" title=\"DSC04084 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3832\/9332712684_a57d1ee43c.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC04084\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keiji, a long-time Zen student, approached his master and said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how there can be any enlightenment that sets you free once and for all. I think we just get ever greater glimpses of Buddha-nature, the vastness that is our true Reality. It&#8217;s an ever-expanding process.&#8221; The master replied, &#8220;That may be what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,217,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-meditation","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}