{"id":1461,"date":"2011-05-04T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:10:28","slug":"kornfield-on-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Kornfield on Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008)<br \/>\nReading Jack Kornfield yesterday I came across a passage on Activism, and the need for sanctuaries where activists can rest and renew.\u00a0 I found it very validating.\u00a0 He writes about Quaker friends who were working as activists in Laos and Vietnam who came to Ajahn Chah\u2019s monastery near the border of Laos.\u00a0 \u201cThey were appalled that we forest monks were not politically active.\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 They had come to the monastery tired and burned out.\u00a0 Working in a war zone is fierce practice. &#8230;\u00a0 My friends came needing a respite.\u00a0 When they spoke passionately against the war, Ajahn Chah told them that stopping the war was essential. &#8230; \u2018We will never succeed outwardly until we also learn to stop the war inside.\u00a0 That is our work here.\u2019<br \/>\n\u201cAs the days passed, my activist friends\u2019 opinions began to change. &#8230;\u00a0 After a week, my friends began to understand.\u00a0 In difficult times we humans need sanctuaries and images of the sacred to remind us of who we really are.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wise-Heart-Universal-Teachings-Psychology\/dp\/0553803476\" target=\"_blank\">The Wise Heart<\/a>, pp274-5<\/p>\n<p>This is why it&#8217;s important to keep Neskaya open, it&#8217;s a sanctuary where people can come and be refreshed and reconnected with what&#8217;s really important, and go back out strengthened for their battles with modern western civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2008) Reading Jack Kornfield yesterday I came across a passage on Activism, and the need for sanctuaries where activists can rest and renew.\u00a0 I found it very validating.\u00a0 He writes about Quaker friends who were working as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-healing","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}