{"id":18679,"date":"2013-09-08T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18679"},"modified":"2013-09-08T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:23:47","slug":"weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18679","title":{"rendered":"Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was finally able to get over to the zen center to meditate this morning and it was like a breath of fresh air. Literally. My new favorite saying to Tin when he is upset is, “Take a deep breath, and count to zen.” This morning, getting ready to go, I was in the backyard watering some of the plants and was thinking about the weeds. Along the fence between my neighbor and my yard are weeds growing – some sort of vinca flowering plant, along with a small daisy-ish looking plant – and along the back retaining wall is cat’s claw spilling over the concrete thick and clingy. I thought about them all as I was watering the flowers in the pot and decided to let them be.<\/p>\n

I had told Joe to remove the cat’s claw and to weed eat the “weeds” and now I just said to heck with it. <\/p>\n

Weeds are growing and I’m letting them be. <\/p>\n

When I arrived at the zen center, I walked in and kneeled down to meditate and the first zazen began. Then a half hour later, we stood for the walking meditation, and as I rounded the front of the room where the buddha was, where the incense is, I noticed a small vase holding a nosegay of the blue vinca like weeds that have taken over one side of my yard. They had been elevated to an altar. Ordinary weeds. <\/p>\n

I came home and cut a nosegay and put a few on one of my altars – here you go weeds, make yourself at home. <\/p>\n

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I was finally able to get over to the zen center to meditate this morning and it was like a breath of fresh air. Literally. My new favorite saying to Tin when he is upset is, “Take a deep breath, and count to zen.” This morning, getting ready to go, I was in the backyard watering some of the plants and was thinking about the weeds. Along the fence between my neighbor and my yard… <\/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-18679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1kHSD-weeds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679","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=18679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18681,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679\/revisions\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}