{"id":199,"date":"2010-03-03T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/03\/dogs-life\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:09:00","slug":"dogs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/03\/dogs-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Dogs&#8217; Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S48wmyoHODI\/AAAAAAAAA0M\/R1ZzEUQ07hI\/s1600-h\/101_1289.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S48wmyoHODI\/AAAAAAAAA0M\/R1ZzEUQ07hI\/s400\/101_1289.JPG\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>On Sunday, my son and I were with Bodhi (middle right) and our neighbors\u2019 lab when we came upon four more. Looking at it tonight, I\u2019m reminded of my life this week \u2013 lots of dogs off leash. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Speaking of dogs, sesshin starts on Friday night. The focus will be a bit or two of Dogen\u2019s Extensive Record on thinking. Like this: <\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Our thinking during immovable sitting circles the earth; our boundless karmic consciousness fills the heavens.  Although this is so, do you want to understand the key to the gateway of going beyond?  <\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>After a pause [Dogen] said:  In the morning hitting three thousand, in the evening eight hundred, if you truly get the inner workings, never mistakenly circulate it.<\/span><\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-1436196868346805571?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, my son and I were with Bodhi (middle right) and our neighbors\u2019 lab when we came upon four more. 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