{"id":3529,"date":"2009-08-31T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2009-08-31T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T06:30:22","slug":"soundtrack-of-samsara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/08\/soundtrack-of-samsara\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack of Samsara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" 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\/QJhVM930YXY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QJhVM930YXY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If there is a single film,<br \/>\nthat I have seen,<br \/>\nthat illustrates Samsara the most graphically,<br \/>\nit would be Baraka.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a single song,<br \/>\nthat I have heard,<br \/>\nthat sings of Samsara the most poignantly,<br \/>\nit would be The Host of Seraphim.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance (with Lisa Gerrard) can be heard in Baraka, as featured above.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember goosebumps popping up when the song was played in the cinema.<br \/>\nI remember despair and compassion welling up, one wave after another.<br \/>\nI remember deeply feeling and being Samsara.<br \/>\nI remember thinking how powerful this is, in spurring me to generate Bodhicitta.<\/p>\n<p>[ad#barakadvd]<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->[ad#barakacd]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is a single film, that I have seen, that illustrates Samsara the most graphically, it would be Baraka&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,271],"tags":[57,49,105],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","tag-compassion","tag-dukkha","tag-samsara","wpcat-26-id","wpcat-271-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}