{"id":1383,"date":"2024-08-31T07:13:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:13:38","slug":"some-thoughts-on-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/some-thoughts-on-self-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on self-improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem226.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem226.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem226-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem226-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dedicated, with gratitude, to Yana Kane, who inspired this poem<\/em><br><br>You set off on a difficult journey &#8211;<br>the journey of self-improvement.<br>You read books and attend lectures.<br>You meditate and practice.<br>You work on your self,<br>but it stubbornly refuses to improve.<br>It remains self-same,<br>immutable safe-same,<br>for if it changed &#8211;<br>how would you feel yourself?<br>With no you and no self &#8211;<br>tricky!<br><br>\u2026 but you do,<br>of course you do,<br>moment by moment,<br>experience by experience,<br>creation by creation,<br>with or without a journey,<br>you fashion your self<br>out of current patterns<br>and imagine that it was<br>and that it will be.<br><br>You cannot improve<br>on something that never existed,<br>but you can always change a story<br>you just made up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated, with gratitude, to Yana Kane, who inspired this poem You set off on a difficult journey &#8211;the journey of self-improvement.You read books and attend lectures.You meditate and practice.You work on your self,but it stubbornly refuses to improve.It remains self-same,immutable safe-same,for if it changed &#8211;how would you feel yourself?With no you and no self &#8211;tricky! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[322,23,15,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}