{"id":21,"date":"2015-06-05T21:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T04:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-06-18T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T04:30:26","slug":"seeing-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/2015\/06\/05\/seeing-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing&#8230;leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/files\/2015\/06\/225640077_9973c7012c_b-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-24 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/files\/2015\/06\/225640077_9973c7012c_b-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"225640077_9973c7012c_b-2\" width=\"371\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/files\/2015\/06\/225640077_9973c7012c_b-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/files\/2015\/06\/225640077_9973c7012c_b-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first sat in my microsite I was observing all the living and non-living entities in my field of vision. Many began to literally pop out suddenly after a few minutes. There were many insects such as flies, millipedes, and a spider. I began to notice the movement of the leaves. They seemed to be moving a lot more than when I had first sat down. And then there it was, a cedar tree branch with its green scaly leaves sticking out right in front of my face.<\/p>\n<p>This became my focus for the next 10 minutes and my inspiration for a meditation on seeing.<\/p>\n<p><u>Time<\/u>: 5 to 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p><u>Instructions<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find an entity in nature such as a leaf, branch, acorn, rock, etc. (pick something that is small enough to see in your field of vision and big enough that you do not have to strain your eyes to see it).<\/li>\n<li>Sit or stand in a comfortable position.<\/li>\n<li>Take a few deep breaths.<\/li>\n<li>Stare at the object and focus on just the act of seeing.<\/li>\n<li>If the mind notices any details make a mental note of it and go back to seeing.<\/li>\n<li>When the mind wanders just bring it back to seeing the object.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first sat in my microsite I was observing all the living and non-living entities in my field of vision. Many began to literally pop out suddenly after a few minutes. There were many insects such as flies, millipedes, and a spider. I began to notice the movement of the leaves. They seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/summerdialogue2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}