{"id":250,"date":"2004-12-23T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2004-12-23T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T18:30:14","slug":"once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/23\/once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Once <i>and<\/i> For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110382439473057931--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a month or so into six months in a volunteer working program at a buddhist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamyang.co.uk\">center<\/a> in London.  Nothing like a 140-year-old building to remind you that work never ends.  Mostly I work under the assumption that I&#8217;m going to finish&#8230; but more and more in this building, in this website and in this world, I am noticing that the work and some other things (suffering and desire, but also space and kindness) seem to go on and on and on.  <\/p>\n<p>More and more coming to wonder how work and the rest might be different if I hold both the desire to finish <em>and<\/em> the reality of forever more clearly in mind, simultaneously.  Mutually.  Both true, without conflict.  How might work, or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?\">website<\/a>, serve me and other directly and still ripple out for all beings at the same time?  Think there just might be a bit of Christmas somewhere in that wonder.  Joy to the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a month or so into six months in a volunteer working program at a buddhist center in London. Nothing like a 140-year-old building to remind you that work never ends. Mostly I work under the assumption that I&#8217;m going to finish&#8230; but more and more in this building, in this website and in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/23\/once-and-for-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once <i>and<\/i> For All&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}