{"id":249,"date":"2016-03-10T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2016-03-10T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:53:06","slug":"inner-truth-a-self-sufficient-meditator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Inner Truth: A Self-Sufficient Meditator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-sufficient meditator is a person who lives a life of<br \/>\nmindfulness moment to moment, though sometimes he or she may need to<br \/>\nmeditate sitting watching the breath, as they do in Vipassana or<br \/>\nAnapansatiyoga.<\/p>\n<p>A self-sufficient meditator is a person who lives a life of<br \/>\nmindfulness moment to moment, though sometimes he or she may need to<br \/>\nmeditate sitting watching the breath, as they do in Vipassana or<br \/>\nAnapansatiyoga. But essentially, meditation means living life,<br \/>\neveryday life with awareness in the present. Becoming aware of your<br \/>\neach movement as you wake up, drinking a cup of chai or coffee,<br \/>\ndriving to work, and such routine tasks with undivided attention.<\/p>\n<p>This becomes a life-style of live-in-the-moment, accepting and<br \/>\nenjoying the moment, and not a mechanical habit. It functions as an<br \/>\nantidote to the fast-paced tech world we are forced to live in. You<br \/>\ncreate your own path of mindfulness as you encounter life moment to<br \/>\nmoment, and enjoy it to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>Osho says: &#8220;You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the<br \/>\npath is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just<br \/>\nlike the sky: the birds fly, but they don&#8217;t leave any footprints. You<br \/>\ncannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-sufficient meditator is a person who lives a life of mindfulness moment to moment, though sometimes he or she may need to meditate sitting watching the breath, as they do in Vipassana or Anapansatiyoga. A self-sufficient meditator is a person who lives a life of mindfulness moment to moment, though sometimes he or she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inner Truth: A Self-Sufficient Meditator<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshodaily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}