{"id":948,"date":"2011-06-25T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-06-25T02:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T06:19:35","slug":"no-excuses-jetsunma-tenzin-palmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/no-excuses-jetsunma-tenzin-palmo\/","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses | Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No Excuses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are no obstacles, just opportunities. Take them now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on the eve of her retirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Certainly we have to do the work. This is true. It is really very impressive how many excuses we can invent for why we aren\u2019t sitting. This idea we have that when things are perfect, then we\u2019ll start practicing\u2014things will never be perfect. This is samsara!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricycle.com\/feature\/no-excuses\"><img src='http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/84tenzin.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each of us has something to do in this lifetime; we have to find out what it is and do it. Retreat is what I was born to do. I was extremely happy in the cave and very grateful to be there. It was a rare opportunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article here in Tricycle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricycle.com\/feature\/no-excuses\">No Excuses | Tricycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Excuses There are no obstacles, just opportunities. Take them now. An interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on the eve of her retirement Certainly we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[142,266,313,393,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}