{"id":737,"date":"2024-02-04T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=737"},"modified":"2024-02-04T03:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T03:22:04","slug":"737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Author and translator Carmen Acevedo Butcher shares how contemplation disrupts unhelpful stories that run through her mind:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that contemplation does for me is what Meister Eckhart calls\u00a0<em>Gelassenheit.<\/em>\u00a0[2] [It allows me] to let go of my own stories. We all have these stories going through our minds \u2026 these different aspects of ourselves that are always having an inner conversation. When I practice contemplation, whether it\u2019s walking down the street \u2026 or just returning to love, somehow, I\u2019m letting go of my stories for the moment. There comes a quiet where I can hear again what Beatrice Bruteau calls that \u201cradical<s>\u00a0<\/s>optimism.\u201d [3] What I love about contemplation is that it\u2019s kind of like that record scratch \u2026 where everything stops and you go, wait, what am I doing? Who am I? Why am I just participating in this blather inside \u2026 when I could sink into this real love that is who I am and who everyone is? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and translator Carmen Acevedo Butcher shares how contemplation disrupts unhelpful stories that run through her mind:&nbsp; One of the things that contemplation does for me is what Meister Eckhart calls\u00a0Gelassenheit.\u00a0[2] [It allows me] to let go of my own stories. We all have these stories going through our minds \u2026 these different aspects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}