{"id":8043,"date":"2010-11-29T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2010-11-29T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:57:52","slug":"mystery-of-the-moving-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/mystery-of-the-moving-wick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of the Moving Wick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8044\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/15.jpeg?resize=50%2C52\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"52\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had  offered an oil lamp, that uses a lit wick. Whenever the wick gets  cluttered with carbon, he would put it in a bowl of water to clear it,  so as to reuse it. One day, something strange and unprecedented  happened. The wick moved about in an irregular (not cyclic) manner while  afloat &#8211; for more than an hour. There was no discernible cause, such as  an energy source. He had filmed it on his phone, and was eager to show  it to those interested.<\/p>\n<p>Having seen it, I have to agree it is  indeed a mystery&#8230; which presents another mystery, other than what  caused the movement. What does it mean? None of us knew what it implied.  Was it an auspicious message? But if so, what was the message? I  offered a simple solution&#8230; If it happens again, my friend should  sincerely chant the Buddha&#8217;s name before it &#8211; for as long as it moved.  If the movement is due to the presence of evil spirits playing a prank,  it would stop. If it is a divine message, may the mindfulness chanting connect to  the Buddha for an answer, to decode the meaning! Amituofo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had offered an oil lamp, that uses a&#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":[89],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","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=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}