{"id":3957,"date":"2009-10-12T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2009-10-12T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:54:15","slug":"my-new-piano-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/my-new-piano-song\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Piano Song"},"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\/qc9iSKZwnP4&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\/qc9iSKZwnP4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure&#8217;s &#8216;Piano Song&#8217;, I&#8217;m reminded of how the Buddha&#8217;s teachings saved my life during my growing up years &#8211; both physically and spiritually, of how much existential resentment and estrangement I had learnt to let go&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never get angry at the stupid people<br \/>\nThough I go crazy at the dullness of my life<br \/>\nSit and I stare into a dusty window<br \/>\nAn empty face stares back at me and cries<br \/>\nMy vulnerability rushes up to me<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m left here<br \/>\nThe rebel without a cause<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">What&#8217;s the difference now? I tell myself&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To always be patient and kind with those who don&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nTo remember that there is never a dull moment with the Dharma<br \/>\nTo sit and peer through the dustiness of my mind<br \/>\nTo catch glimpses of not just true emptiness but Buddha-nature too, and smile<br \/>\nTo see the invulnerable refuge within the vulnerability<br \/>\nTo realise that I am never alone as long as there is the Dharma<br \/>\nTo remember that I am always to be a rebel with a spiritual cause<\/p>\n<p>[ad#erasurewild]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure&#8217;s &#8216;Piano Song&#8217;, I&#8217;m reminded of how the Buddha&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[126,37],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-buddha-nature","tag-existential-crisis","wpcat-271-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","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=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}