{"id":10052,"date":"2011-09-20T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2011-09-20T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:44:19","slug":"introduction-to-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/09\/introduction-to-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bJVChTnVHtA?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bJVChTnVHtA?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here is a wonderful old video of Alan Watts introducing Buddhist meditation.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still very relevant. I&#8217;ve not read Watts&#8217; materials widely,<br \/>\nbut what he says here, other than the side joke about God, makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>This video inspired me to write this article for TheDailyEnlightenment:<br \/>\n<strong>The Silent Yet Noisy Falling Tree<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2011\/09\/the-silent-yet-noisy-falling-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2011\/09\/the-silent-yet-noisy-falling-tree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a wonderful old video of Alan Watts introducing Buddhist meditation. It&#8217;s still very relevant. I&#8217;ve not read Watts&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-meditation","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}