{"id":425,"date":"2011-02-25T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=425"},"modified":"2013-09-20T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:31:04","slug":"round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Round up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?attachment_id=427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-427\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"IMG_2729\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_27291.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_27291.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_27291-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>It took a while, but now even this strange omnipresent sound that seems to belong to India too, the shhhhreeking sound of the peacock gets multilevel meanings.<br \/>\nAt first hearing there is a kind of cognitive dissonance between how beautiful we consider those overdressed bad flying birds to be and the sounds they produce.<br \/>\nBut after carefully considering this for a while, it becomes clear that even here our all pervading projections play a hidden but strong role in how we evaluate their wake up calls.<br \/>\nIn the Vedas there are these 3 mental states, the gunas.<br \/>\n================================================================<br \/>\n<strong>Gunas<\/strong> (Gun. as) A term of the Sarnkhya philosophy, according to which Prakriti (nature or matter), in contrast with Purusha (soul), consists of three Gunas\u2014 usually translated as &#8220;;qualities&#8221;\u2014known as Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. Sattva<br \/>\nstands for balance or wisdom, Tamas for inertia, and Rajas for activity and restlessness.<br \/>\n================================================================<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that, when heard thru a Tamas mind, the peacock mirrors back: ouch, ouch.<br \/>\nAnd when heard thru a Rajas mind, the peacock jubilates: wow, wow.<br \/>\nAnd the Sattvic mind hears how it is as: awe, awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while, but now even this strange omnipresent sound that seems to belong to India too, the shhhhreeking sound of the peacock gets multilevel meanings. At first hearing there is a kind of cognitive dissonance between how beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog","tag-oerpuzzel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_27291.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tD9I-6R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}