{"id":1780,"date":"2018-11-25T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2018-11-25T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:16:03","slug":"what-is-zen-buddhism-free-e-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"What is Zen Buddhism? FREE E-BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zatma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/astarjoy.jpe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1784 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/zatma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/astarjoy-255x300.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zatma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/astarjoy-255x300.jpe 255w, https:\/\/zatma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/astarjoy-204x240.jpe 204w, https:\/\/zatma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/astarjoy.jpe 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglethread.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WHAT-IS-ZEN-BUDDHISM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Zen Buddhism?<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Ming Zhen Shakya<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FREE E-Book by Ming Zhen Shakya &#8211; Surprising. Clear. Worth reading. <\/p>\n<p>Ming Zhen makes it clear that Zen is a mystical practice. She offers us a short, penetrating and even historical explanation on the practice of Zen.  Includes why Christians are interested &#8211; a definition of samsara and nirvana &#8211; and a &#8220;how to&#8221; meditate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays-by-ming-zhen-shakya","category-free-e-books"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}