{"id":1178,"date":"2010-09-29T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T08:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2010-09-29T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T08:50:47","slug":"quote-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2010\/09\/29\/quote-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #258"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nAfter I\u2019m gone, some of you will seclude yourselves in the forests and mountains to meditate, while others may drink rice wine and enjoy the company of women. Both kinds of Zen are fine, but if some become professional clerics, babbling about \u201cZen as the Way,\u201d they are my enemies.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Ikkyu (1394-1481, zen priest and poet), trans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebuddhadharma.com\/issues\/2004\/winter\/ikkyu.html\">John Stevens<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dissolvingpath\">dissolving path<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I\u2019m gone, some of you will seclude yourselves in the forests and mountains to meditate, while others may drink rice wine and enjoy the company of women. Both kinds of Zen are fine, but if some become professional clerics, babbling about \u201cZen as the Way,\u201d they are my enemies. Ikkyu (1394-1481, zen priest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-j0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}