{"id":1229,"date":"2013-07-26T17:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T01:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-07-26T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T01:47:06","slug":"resonances-in-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Resonances in the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Action in this world generates resonances, somewhat like ripples spreading from a pebble dropped in a still pond. But there are billions of sentient life forms just on this planet, interacting ever more intimately. We have no idea of the echoes of our being&#8212;or as Krishna advises Arjuna in the teaching story of the Baghavad Gita (i.e., a classic of South Asian Indian ancient literature and a mini-epic within the larger epic of the Mahabarata): \u201cDo not be attached to the fruits of your actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-26-2013-081157PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"07-26-2013 08;11;57PM\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"07-26-2013 08;11;57PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-26-2013-081157PM_thumb.jpg\" width=\"523\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture illustrates at the bottom many actions by a number of people and how they figuratively spiral \u201cupward\u201d&#8212;really all directions, inwards, outwards, etc.&#8212;generating echoes in many realms, interacting with each other like air currents near a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been on a journey into the depths of my ignorance, while sustaining some power to articulate this viewpoint. I am reassured that this is a proper contribution: We are profoundly unaware of the complexity of the Great Becoming. We can, however, do our thing in slightly better ways, and there are a million things we can do to make this a better world. Knowing this bigger picture comforts me: I sense we have a chance to do something good&#8212;and there\u2019s always some kindness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action in this world generates resonances, somewhat like ripples spreading from a pebble dropped in a still pond. But there are billions of sentient life forms just on this planet, interacting ever more intimately. We have no idea of the echoes of our being&#8212;or as Krishna advises Arjuna in the teaching story of the Baghavad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-uncategorized","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}