{"id":2322,"date":"2022-06-10T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/?page_id=2322"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:16:13","slug":"ira-epstein-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/ira-epstein-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ira Epstein 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align:left\">Ira Epstein<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\">Form is Emptiness<br>\n(Emptiness is Form)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">By being aware, <i>we are constantly creating<\/i> \u2013 and perhaps more importantly, I believe that <i>Awareness <\/i>itself requires this act of ongoing creation to exist. We witness an interpreted world, one within the limits of our singular and species-specific senses, minds and experience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We know of no other way to be aware of it\u2026no other way to witness anything<b>. <\/b>We interpret to be aware <i>in whatever ways we can<\/i>, as individuals and as humans at large, because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re made to do. We interpret, we piece together, we <i>create the world<\/i>. And we do it even as things change \u2013 even as <i>we ourselves change<\/i>. We assemble a moving picture from moving parts, which we recognize via patterns and systems \u2013 often of our own making \u2013 because our experience is actually made in the mesh of these systems as they continually form the body of the universe we see.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ira Epstein Form is Emptiness (Emptiness is Form) By being aware, we are constantly creating \u2013 and perhaps more importantly, I believe that Awareness itself requires this act of ongoing creation to exist. We witness an interpreted world, one within the limits of our singular and species-specific senses, minds and experience.\u00a0 We know of no [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2322\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}