{"id":62,"date":"2023-01-09T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/?p=62"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:06:31","slug":"wander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2023\/01\/09\/wander\/","title":{"rendered":"Wander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">A wander comes upon a master sitting under a tree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;Can I achive enlightment through meditation?&#8221; asked the wander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;No&#8221; repliyed the master.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">A few days later the wander comes upon another master.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;Can I achive enlightment through meditation?&#8221; asked the wander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;No&#8221; repliyed the master.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">A few days later the wander comes upon Buddha sitting in the dust beside the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;Oh great buddha&#8221; says the wander. &#8221; I have walked many days along this road and asked many teachers if meditation would lead to enlightenment. The have all denied that it would. So why do you instruct us to meditate?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">&#8220;You are already enlightened .&#8221; Buddha responds. &#8220;Meditation is done to still the dream ; so you may awaken&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wander comes upon a master sitting under a tree. &#8220;Can I achive enlightment through meditation?&#8221; asked the wander. &#8220;No&#8221; repliyed the master. A few days later the wander comes&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2023\/01\/09\/wander\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wander<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}