{"id":533,"date":"2010-06-07T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/06\/moon-at-the-window\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:05:20","slug":"moon-at-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/06\/moon-at-the-window.html","title":{"rendered":"Moon at the Window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The other day on his facebook page my old Dharma<\/a> buddy Paul Lynch<\/a> quoted an old Japanese proverb that became the text for my sermon on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After I posted it, he commented on the Ryokan poem<\/a> I cited in the sermon together with a clip of a Joni Mitchell song that draws inspiration from the poem.<\/p>\n

I thought it worth continuing the cycle by posting that song here\u2026<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uPY8yRO49L0<\/a>\n

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