{"id":13560,"date":"2011-09-21T07:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2011-09-22T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T02:06:36","slug":"the-evil-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13560","title":{"rendered":"The evil twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes dear readers, the evil twin is back, the one who sits around and harps about how things are all going to hell in a hand-basket. Surely there is a way out of my miasma, but which path to take? Is it the road untraveled, the road more familiar but still risky, is it non-action or bold action that is required, should we sell the LaLa and move to an apartment, should we, should I, should should should?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know and it is the not knowing that is crushing.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m trying to revive the other twin, the one who is learning to yield to the unknowing, the one who ought to be embracing non thought, the one who knows that all these things will come to pass and yet none of them matter. That is the lesson I&#8217;m trying to learn but the evil twin keeps usurping all the mental real estate and crowding out the new way with the old way of worry and anxiety and dread.<\/p>\n<p>If the little voices in your head are getting you down, meditate. The Dalai Lama tweeted this this morning:<\/p>\n<div>Dalai Lama&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes dear readers, the evil twin is back, the one who sits around and harps about how things are all going to hell in a hand-basket. Surely there is a way out of my miasma, but which path to take? Is it the road untraveled, the road more familiar but still risky, is it non-action or bold action that is required, should we sell the LaLa and move to an apartment, should we, should I,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3wI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13562,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}