{"id":896,"date":"2016-04-01T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=896"},"modified":"2016-03-29T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:57:45","slug":"runners-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2016\/04\/01\/runners-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner&#8217;s High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once told me, &#8220;Kayaking is my meditation. That&#8217;s where I go all zen.&#8221; Well, why not? I&#8217;m not going to debate what zen is (I still don&#8217;t know), but is exercise the same thing as meditation? Here is what a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakyong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche<\/a>, has to say about that:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; to lead a balanced life, we need to engage and be active, and to deepen and rest. &#8230;\u00a0Exercise can be a support for meditation, and meditation can be a support for exercise. &#8230;\u00a0People sometimes say, \u201cRunning is my meditation.\u201d Even though I know what they mean, in reality, running is running and meditation is meditation. That\u2019s why they have different names. It would be just as inaccurate to say, \u201cMeditation is my exercise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the complete essay\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/running-into-meditation-may-2012\" target=\"_blank\">Running into Meditation<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Sakyong Mipham (Lion&#8217;s Roar, 18 Mar 2016)<\/p>\n<p>And, another take\u00a0on the topic of running and meditation:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/16\/meditation-plus-running-as-a-treatment-for-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meditation plus Running as a Treatment for Depression<\/a><\/strong> (Well blog, NY Times, 16 Mar 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once told me, &#8220;Kayaking is my meditation. That&#8217;s where I go all zen.&#8221; Well, why not? I&#8217;m not going to debate what zen is (I still don&#8217;t know), but is exercise the same thing as meditation? Here is what a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, has to say about that:<\/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":[20,6],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-exercise","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}