{"id":2333,"date":"2019-01-01T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awareness-now.org\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2019-01-01T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:44:25","slug":"the-illusion-of-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion of seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as we believe we are on the way to something; something better, nicer, more exciting and so on, we are overlooking or denying what\u2019s here right <u>now!<\/u>\u00a0 Seeking is based on the illusion of (psychological) time, the idea that \u201cI\u201d can get something and \u201carrive\u201d somewhere in the future, isn\u2019t it? It seems this is a very common belief.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism of seeking is independent of what is being sought, it could be anything really; a better version of \u201cme\u201d, a better job, a new car, a holiday, more peace or happiness\u2026etc. The list is endless, we add things to it every day.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it mean to &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">get there<\/span>&#8220;, to finally arrive, to be fulfilled? Is that possible at all or is it in fact an illusion?\u00a0 To seek is to deny the very moment that one actually is alive, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that we are in fact afraid to let go of all seeking and just be present here and now?<\/p>\n<p>What if \u201cthis timeless moment\u201d is the only \u201creality\u201d that ever exists and there is no past and no future? How would you live then?<\/p>\n<p>Inquire into this and it will astonish &#8220;you&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as we believe we are on the way to something; something better, nicer, more exciting and so on, we are overlooking or denying what\u2019s here right now!\u00a0 Seeking is based on the illusion of (psychological) time, the idea that \u201cI\u201d can get something and \u201carrive\u201d somewhere in the future, isn\u2019t it? It seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awareness-now.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}