{"id":127,"date":"2010-02-20T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-02-20T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:46:34","slug":"ephemerality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/ephemerality\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephemerality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_128\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1187-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"Sunrise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1187-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1187-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1187-1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These clouds, this sky... no longer exist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the greatest illusions under which we labour is that there exists such a thing as permanence.<\/p>\n<p>Permanence exists only in our minds, which like to make order out of chaos, to make sense out of non-sense, to attribute qualities and traits to our existence which are not truly there at all.<\/p>\n<p>We cling to memories of things, events which have passed, expired, evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps without our memory of these things, we feel we have no foundation, no security, no basis for our lives.<\/p>\n<p>And yet without them we also have utter freedom from pre-conception, conditioning, habit and expectation. And life becomes eternally novel, fascinating and pristine.<\/p>\n<p>Are you willing to let go? To forget? To experience each moment anew?<\/p>\n<p>To accept fully the fleetingness, the changeability, the ephemerality of existence&#8230; is to become truly liberated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest illusions under which we labour is that there exists such a thing as permanence. Permanence exists only in our minds, which like to make order out of chaos, to make sense out of non-sense, to attribute qualities and traits to our existence which are not truly there at all. We cling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-spirituality","tag-preconceptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpdawson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}