{"id":451,"date":"2007-08-03T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/08\/03\/generosity\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T21:00:28","slug":"generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/08\/03\/generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/08\/tulipsredwhitebystairslr.jpg\" title=\"tulipsredwhitebystairslr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/08\/tulipsredwhitebystairslr.jpg\" alt=\"Red and white tulips\" height=\"164\" style=\"width: 222px;height: 164px\" title=\"Red and white tulips\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>As Gurus we contain our attention, not allowing it to fritter away on frivolity;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>It is contained in the Bhavasagara ( the Void); we can call this &#8220;the sack&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe Void within the sack is filled when our attention has been crystallised into kernels of Love,<br \/>\nBy the catalyst of Pure Desire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Perpetually full, the sack is kept open by the heart, and emptied, <\/em><em>two compassionate handfuls at a time,<br \/>\nWith dewy eyes and gentle smiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Avdhut<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: courtesy of geekphilosopher.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As Gurus we contain our attention, not allowing it to fritter away on frivolity; It is contained in the Bhavasagara ( the Void); we can call this &#8220;the sack&#8221;. The Void within the sack is filled when our attention has been crystallised into kernels of Love, By the catalyst of Pure Desire. Perpetually full, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[129,255,267,554],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-28","category-poems","tag-attention","tag-generosity","tag-guru","tag-void"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-7h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}