{"id":3514,"date":"2019-11-03T04:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/03\/the-fruits-of-a-formal-session\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T04:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:06:47","slug":"the-fruits-of-a-formal-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/03\/the-fruits-of-a-formal-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Session Fruits of a Formal Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a499092f200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christian meditation\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a499092f200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a499092f200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Christian meditation\" \/><\/a>The fruits of a formal meditation session sometimes come after the sitting. I sat for only about a half-hour this morning, trying with little success to let go of every thought as it arose, in search of the state void of thought at the source of thought.&#0160; After I arose from the mat, however, unsought unearthly calm descended. Call it Grace. Grace graciously granted <em>ab extra. <\/em>Its coming is an advent from Elsewhere. Pali Buddhism, magnificent as it is, makes no place for it. A defect, I&#39;d say.&#0160; A point for Christianity. These are the metaphysically deepest and richest religions. They can and should learn from each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Companion entry: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/10\/grace.html\">Grace<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fruits of a formal meditation session sometimes come after the sitting. I sat for only about a half-hour this morning, trying with little success to let go of every thought as it arose, in search of the state void of thought at the source of thought.&#0160; After I arose from the mat, however, unsought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/03\/the-fruits-of-a-formal-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post-Session Fruits of a Formal Session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}