{"id":42478,"date":"2016-09-09T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42478"},"modified":"2016-09-09T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:52:06","slug":"living-consciously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42478","title":{"rendered":"Living Consciously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynELR4a5L1M\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two great quotes yesterday. One from our mussar group: I never saw a U-Haul trailer behind a hearse. The second from a comment on a NYT article on the meaning of life:\u00a0You say No Matter, I say Never Mind.<\/p>\n<p>Mussar. It&#8217;s September, the days are cooling down and years of Septembers have me getting ready to accelerate my study. This year a\u00a0focus will be mussar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-42479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1-420x206.jpg\" alt=\"mussar-path-of-w-logo1\" width=\"420\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1-420x206.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1-744x365.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1-1200x589.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MUSSAR-PATH-OF-W-LOGO1.jpg 1873w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/>Mussar\u00a0is defined here by Rabbi Ira Stone, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mussarleadership.org\/history-of-mussar\/\">Mussar Leadership Program<\/a>: &#8220;The most accurate translation of the word mussar into English is \u201cdiscipline,\u201d defined in all three ways we use the word in English. Mussar defines a discrete area of study, like the discipline of physics. It describes a practice, as in \u201cit takes discipline to practice piano every day.\u201d It also describes the act of correcting behavior, as in \u201cyou must discipline the child.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In our study of the Way of the Just, begun yesterday at Congregation Beth Evergreen (CBE) and led by Rabbi Jamie Arnold, we talked about the purpose of life. Rabbi Jamie offered what he said was a traditional Jewish perspective: Experience happiness fully. Experience sadness fully. And in the times between be content. Works for me.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to have some anchors in Evergreen now. Our work with Bear Creek Design will introduce us to the contractors who do work for them. Kate&#8217;s study of Hebrew and our mutual study of mussar has begun to open up relationships at CBE for CBE. This means Evergreen is no longer a destination only for restaurants and shopping, but also for community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Harvest Moon Two great quotes yesterday. One from our mussar group: I never saw a U-Haul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Consciously<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4316,1450,14,65,566,4314,3907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-beyond-the-boundaries","category-commentary-on-religion","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-family","category-humanities","category-jefferson-county","category-reimagining-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42480,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42478\/revisions\/42480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}