{"id":16,"date":"2008-06-04T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/pre-vipashchana\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:24:08","slug":"pre-vipashchana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/pre-vipashchana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-vipashchana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These were the feelings before the course that I&#8217;d jotted down, but somehow forgot to post on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>As the day of a 10-day &#8216;noble silence&#8217; draws closer, I am beginning to realize how important it is for me to talk, to connect, to be with people. As far as I can tell till date, everything I&#8217;ve enjoyed doing has been memorable because of the people I met, the relationships I made. And this course completely takes that away from me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that I&#8217;ve this opportunity to enter a world that is diagonally opposite of the environment I like being in.  Yet, how much ever mentally prepared I am for the rigorous meditation, I&#8217;m getting anxious. I&#8217;m looking forward to the time on my own, but every time I hear a person say, &#8220;it will be a life-changing experience&#8230;at least temporarily&#8221;, I inch my way towards restlessness. Do I really want my life to change?<\/p>\n<p>NOPE!<\/p>\n<p>Do I want changes in myself? Yeah, of course! A few changes would do me good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>hmmm&#8230;too much anticipation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I just want the course to start now&#8230;<\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend>Related articles<\/legend>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/writteninc.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/meadow-lark.html\" title=\"Open in new window\">Meadow lark<\/a> [via\u00a0Zemanta]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/8cb988a9-3f08-4b1b-9f77-c390a93a416d\/\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_a.png?x-id=8cb988a9-3f08-4b1b-9f77-c390a93a416d\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the feelings before the course that I&#8217;d jotted down, but somehow forgot to post on the site. &#8212; As the day of a 10-day &#8216;noble silence&#8217; draws closer, I am beginning to realize how important it is for me to talk, to connect, to be with people. As far as I can tell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/pre-vipashchana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Pre-vipashchana&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}