{"id":1045,"date":"2016-10-01T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2016-10-01T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:38:01","slug":"the-practice-of-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2016\/10\/01\/the-practice-of-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was a spring day in San Francisco. My wife was attending a chemistry workshop downtown and I was out for a stroll. I dropped down\u00a0into the basement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiXl5mSj7rPAhUBS2MKHSBuCmYQFggdMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citylights.com%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNFan1scnHwHug6m-Z4Sb2ajl0Pzcw&amp;sig2=QmcFQpybQXIvx1BGhyroZg&amp;bvm=bv.134495766,d.cGc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City Lights Books<\/strong><\/a> (why had I waited so long?), and a small book, one that wouldn&#8217;t weigh me down, called out, &#8220;Take me home. I have something to tell you.&#8221; The book was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miracle-Mindfulness-Introduction-Practice-Meditation\/dp\/0807012394\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Miracle of Mindfulness<\/strong><\/a> by author, Zen master, peace activist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plumvillage.org\/about\/thich-nhat-hanh\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thich Nhat Hanh<\/strong><\/a>. The book was small, but the heart that wrote it was as big as the universe. This is where my practice began.<\/p>\n<p>Thich Nhat Hanh turns 90 this month and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lion&#8217;s Roar<\/strong><\/a> has republished three of his essays. Enjoy them. May they help you in your life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/mindful-living-thich-nhat-hanh-on-the-practice-of-mindfulness-march-2010\" target=\"_blank\">The Practice of Mindfulness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/5-practices-for-nurturing-happiness\" target=\"_blank\">5\u00a0Practices for Nurturing Happiness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/headline-july-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Peace in Every Step<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was a spring day in San Francisco. My wife was attending a chemistry workshop downtown and I was out for a stroll. I dropped down\u00a0into the basement of City Lights Books (why had I waited so long?), and a small book, one that wouldn&#8217;t weigh me down, called out, &#8220;Take me home. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,13,27,18],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awareness","tag-breath","tag-emotions","tag-instructions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}