{"id":1483,"date":"2010-03-09T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:02:12","slug":"the-way-is-not-in-the-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"The Way is not in the Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/genesh-five-heads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1484 alignright\" title=\"genesh five heads\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/genesh-five-heads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/genesh-five-heads.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/genesh-five-heads-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/genesh-five-heads-668x1024.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Words can never placate the egoic mind.\u00a0 Even the <em>right words<\/em> on occasion will still set it ablaze.\u00a0 <em>Indifferent <\/em>words may appear to temporarily appease, and <em>negative<\/em> words might be construed as inconsequential in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Words are spoken.\u00a0 Emotions arise.\u00a0 The mistake is to imbue casual qualities.\u00a0 Because if you believe it is the hearing of words that can heal you, you will be forever searching for someone to speak unto you the magic spell.<\/p>\n<p>Pain arises.\u00a0 Anger arises.\u00a0 Joy arises.\u00a0 Happiness arises.\u00a0 Equanimity exists in the gap in-between all that arises and must fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Seek silence, not soliloquy.\u00a0 Do not invest so much story in the <em>&#8216;self&#8217;<\/em>.\u00a0 No one can experience what it is you perceive in the body\/mind.\u00a0 So do not waste effort repeating the samsaric suffering to another sentient being.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are fortunate to happen upon a buddha on your footpath &#8230; Listen with your heart.\u00a0 Not for answers or an elixir.\u00a0 But the vibration of the word spoken that strikes a chord in your Being.\u00a0 When you feel this resonance, there will be no need for any further conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words can never placate the egoic mind.\u00a0 Even the right words on occasion will still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma","tag-genesh-five-heads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}