{"id":6866,"date":"2010-07-20T02:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2010-07-21T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T10:10:30","slug":"the-enigma-of-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/the-enigma-of-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enigma of Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" 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\/A_hp2ubJaNo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A_hp2ubJaNo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>The lyrics of this song &#8216;Why&#8217; by Enigma<br \/>\nreminds me of Dhammapada verse 6 by the Buddha.<br \/>\nHere are various translations of the verse &#8211;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many do not realize that we must all come to an end here;<br \/>\nbut those who do realize this, end their quarrels at once.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die.<br \/>\nBut those who do realize this settle their quarrels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People do not discern that here we straitened are (in life, in time),<br \/>\nbut they who herein do discern, thereby their quarrels are allayed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Most people never realize that all of us here shall one day perish.<br \/>\nBut those who do realize that truth settle their quarrels peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world does not know that we must all come to an end here;\u2013<br \/>\nbut those who know it, their quarrels cease at once.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The others know not that in this quarrel we perish;<br \/>\nthose of them who realise it, have their quarrels calmed thereby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Others may not understand that we must practice self-control,<br \/>\nbut quarrelling dies away in those who understand this fact.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Still others do not understand that we must perish in this world,<br \/>\nthose who understand this, their quarrels are allayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People, other than the wise, do not realize,<br \/>\n\u201cWe in this world must all die,\u201d<br \/>\n(and not realizing it continue their quarrels).<br \/>\nThe wise realize it and thereby their quarrels cease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics of this song &#8216;Why&#8217; by Enigma reminds me of Dhammapada verse 6 by the Buddha. Here are various&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,44],"tags":[434,288],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-quotes","tag-conflict","tag-peace","wpcat-271-id","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","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=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}