{"id":3331,"date":"2021-02-23T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:28:48","slug":"meditation-work-and-rest-are-one-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/meditation-work-and-rest-are-one-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Work and Rest are one Entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following excerpt is from the meditation &#8220;Work and Rest are one Entity&#8221; from Thurman&#8217;s Meditations of the Heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>We know that we cannot keep our bodies going if we do not refuel by eating and by sleeping. Over and over again, we provide for a change of pace in our life routine to the end that we shall not burn out or rust out. A commonplace adage that expresses one facet of the problem is: &#8220;All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.&#8221; A music score that provides for no rests, no devaluation of whole notes, would be unbearable at long last. Here we are face to face with a life principle. One man has designated it as a principle of alternation. Even casual reflection would lead one to recognize that a very urgent function of the quiet time is to provide a breather for the spirit, opportunity for catching up, reorganizing and re-evaluating the endless activities in which we are involved daily and hourly.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[&#8230;]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Careful provision must be made for rest, for quiet, for prayer and for renewal.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[&#8230;]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>When we function, we are enjoined to function <em>wholly, <\/em>bringing into the deeds the wisdom and the insight of the quiet and the pause. When we rest we are enjoined to rest <em>wholly<\/em>, bringing into the quiet time the sense of doing and participating in the activities that claim our energies. &#8220;The most inward man lives his life in these two ways: namely, in work and in rest.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from the meditation &#8220;Work and Rest are one Entity&#8221; from Thurman&#8217;s Meditations of the Heart. We know that we cannot keep our bodies going if we do not refuel by eating and by sleeping. Over and over again, we provide for a change of pace in our life routine to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6091,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}