{"id":1847,"date":"2023-12-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T05:12:11","slug":"december-31-2023-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/december-31-2023-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"December 31 &#8211; Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for choosing to be part of this January email offering. This is the ninth year I have been doing this, and I continue to be inspired by the teachings, and by knowing you are here with me on this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to exploring the eightfold path with you this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll start off tomorrow with a bit of an overview of the topic, and then for each path factor, we will have three days to engage with each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I will draw from various resources, I will primarily use these three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering, by Bhikkhu Bodhi<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/lib\/authors\/bodhi\/waytoend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/lib\/authors\/bodhi\/waytoend.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eightfold Path Program, with Gil Fronsdal<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiodharma.org\/series\/3840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.audiodharma.org\/series\/3840<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eightfold Path talks from 2020, with Gil Fronsdal<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiodharma.org\/series\/12394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.audiodharma.org\/series\/12394<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, on Mondays (except for January 1), we will cultivate heart practices as further support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the emails will be archived to this blog I\u2019ve used for this project:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/\">https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/<\/a><br>Comments are open on the newer posts, and you are invited to share your thoughts and feedback on the posts, or reply by email. I do my best to respond to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for the first email\/post tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With warmest wishes,<br>Andrea Grzesina<br><a href=\"mailto:andrea@grzesina.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">andrea@grzesina.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Thank you for choosing to be part of this January email offering. This is the ninth year I have been doing this, and I continue to be inspired by the teachings, and by knowing you are here with me on this journey. I&#8217;m looking forward to exploring the eightfold path with you this month. We&#8217;ll start\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/december-31-2023-welcome\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[355],"tags":[179,161,28,70],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2024","tag-bhikkhu-bodhi","tag-eightfold-path","tag-gil-fronsdal","tag-welcome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}