{"id":973,"date":"2008-04-08T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:56:56","slug":"the-new-western-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/the-new-western-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Western Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I deserve an award for blogging perseverance. My shift key is toast, I locate the tiny black sponge floating around my desk and hold it in place with my ring finger, delicately centered on the little rectangle pad&#8211;just to get a capital!<br \/>Decided to do a 10k race in June and next spring train for a 25k mountain trail race. yes, 25k seems a little long to me too, but at least it&#8217;s through the mountains, I can run forever in the wilderness.<br \/>I miss snow boarding. I crave getting my butt whipped on the mountain at least 2x a month. i need the physical and mental exhaustion that it creates. Nothing, aside from my evening meditations, brings me peace in my mind like action sports. So, T suggesting windsurfing for the summer&#8211; I will take  few lessons and see if it is challenging enough to exhaust and thrill me. Wolf will be done today. Will post results.<br \/>Disappointed in the Buddhism temples in Kelowna! One is Japanese Buddhism, one is Chinese Buddhism and one monk just gives me the creeps. I need Tibetan Buddhism that isn&#8217;t some old boys club. I&#8217;ve even designed the best saffron and crimson dress\/robes for women&#8211;the new western Buddhism that is gender neutral that takes into account, western women don&#8217;t want to shave their heads and wear a robe that looks like an ill fitting diaper to practise in. I&#8217;d look as rediculous bald and wearing those robes as the Dalai Lama would look in one of my Texas dresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I deserve an award for blogging perseverance. My shift key is toast, I locate the tiny black sponge floating around my desk and hold it in place with my ring finger, delicately centered on the little rectangle pad&#8211;just to get &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/the-new-western-buddhism\/\" aria-label=\"The New Western Buddhism\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121,1],"tags":[2149],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-uncategorized","tag-western-buddhism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":121,"label":"Mindfulness"},{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":2149,"label":"Western Buddhism"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":121,"name":"Mindfulness","slug":"mindfulness","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":121,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":158,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":121,"category_count":158,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Mindfulness","category_nicename":"mindfulness","category_parent":0},{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":576,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":576,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":2149,"name":"Western Buddhism","slug":"western-buddhism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2204,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}