{"id":9864,"date":"2019-05-30T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:14:00","slug":"in-relationship-with-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2019\/05\/30\/in-relationship-with-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"In Relationship With the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The dharma \u2014 understanding, peering into the nature of reality \u2014 is not specific to Buddhism. The dharma is truth. And the only choice we really have is whether to try to be in relationship with the truth or to live in ignorance. There are no other choices. You have to actively engage. <em>How did I come to be? How do I think of myself? How did I get what I have?<\/em> (I don\u2019t mean your degrees.) <em>Where did I come from? What land are we on?<\/em>If it sounds like a lot of work, it is. All of us, in some way, have profited from our wrong knowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; angel Kyodo williams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/your-liberation-is-on-the-line\/?mc_cid=18263a972f&#038;mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D&#038;fbclid=IwAR0eE9kqTxG9QqzwVC44ETZC2m4B3zAKKzwoBK7DQkW3D-_h_064g7z7Jic\">Your Liberation is on the Line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The dharma \u2014 understanding, peering into the nature of reality \u2014 is not specific to Buddhism. The dharma is truth. And the only choice we really have is whether to try to be in relationship with the truth or to live in ignorance. There are no other choices. You have to actively engage. How did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,48,30,219],"tags":[301,61,260,302],"class_list":["post-9864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-community","category-quotes","category-spirit","tag-dharma","tag-life","tag-practice","tag-reality"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864","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=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10490,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions\/10490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}