{"id":721,"date":"2005-11-22T02:11:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T07:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/22\/721\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T02:11:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T07:11:43","slug":"721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/22\/721\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One party says thought is caused by matter, and the other says matter<br \/>\nis caused by thought. Both statements are wrong; matter and thought are<br \/>\ncoexistent. There is a third something of which both matter and thought<br \/>\nare products. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)<\/p>\n<p>Just as material things are made of dust, so too are our perceptions<br \/>\nand thoughts mere dust. Just as it takes only a moment to wipe the dust<br \/>\nfrom the surface of a mirror, so it takes only a moment to become<br \/>\nenlightened, the moment all defiled intentions are cleared from our<br \/>\nconsciousness, we will see ourselves in the mirror of perfect truth.<br \/>\n-Master Hsing Yun, &#8220;Describing the Indescribable&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Use all your power to free the senses from attachment and aversion<br \/>\nalike, and live in the full wisdom of the Self. Such a sage awakes to<br \/>\nlight in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is<br \/>\nthe night of ignorance to the wise.<br \/>\n-Bhagavad Gita 2:68-69<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One party says thought is caused by matter, and the other says matter is caused by thought. Both statements are wrong; matter and thought are coexistent. There is a third something of which both matter and thought are products. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) Just as material things are made of dust, so too are our perceptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}