{"id":1772,"date":"2009-04-04T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2009-04-04T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T08:06:44","slug":"is-the-world-broken-into-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/04\/is-the-world-broken-into-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the World Broken into Pieces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1774\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/12-223x300.jpg?resize=223%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only dialogues I found interesting in &#8216;Nick and Norah&#8217;s Infinite Playlist&#8217; are as below. I wished there was an infinite number of them.<\/p>\n<p>Norah: &#8230; reminds me of this part of Judaism that I really like. It&#8217;s called Tikkun olam. It says that the world&#8217;s been broken into pieces and it&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s job to find them and put them back together again.<br \/>\nNick: Well, maybe we&#8217;re the pieces, you know? Maybe we&#8217;re not supposed to find the pieces. Maybe we are the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of this part of Buddhism that I really like. It&#8217;s called Interdependence (Dependent Origination). It says that the world has never been broken into any pieces, though we have the illusion that it has, that we have &#8216;selves&#8217; separate from everything else&#8230; and it&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s &#8216;job&#8217; to realise this delusion to realise things have never been apart.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/photo8-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick: Hey, what&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nNorah: Are you sad we missed it?*<br \/>\nNick: We didn&#8217;t miss it. This is it.**<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n* it: a concert, as they had to leave early<br \/>\n** it: the present moment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong would be to be sad<br \/>\nthat we missed a moment in the past,<br \/>\nthus missing the wonder<br \/>\nof this only moment that we have.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you &#8216;pause&#8217; in the moment,<br \/>\nwhether you miss this moment,<br \/>\nit is all you have,<br \/>\nit is all you can have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only dialogues I found interesting in &#8216;Nick and Norah&#8217;s Infinite Playlist&#8217; are as below. I wished there was an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,341],"tags":[363,381,76,199],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-photojournal","tag-illusion","tag-interdependence","tag-now","tag-self","wpcat-26-id","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}