{"id":549,"date":"2012-04-05T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mothermaryswords.wordpress.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-04-05T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:42:46","slug":"the-king-and-the-monk-a-modern-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/04\/the-king-and-the-monk-a-modern-parable\/","title":{"rendered":"The King and the Monk a modern Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A king asked a monk, where is the breath you breath? Where is the music you play? Where is the love you speak of? Is it tangible? How come I can not see it? \u00a0The king insisted, \u201cshow me the actual music, come on show it to me, prove to me there is music.\u201d \u00a0The monk was quite perplexed by the questions, but tried to respond, \u201cWell the music is playing now, can you hear it? It is beautiful, adorable, amazing, and it is always playing. Listen.\u201d \u00a0The king and the monk stood in silence, the king, \u201cI can not hear it, see it, feel it, it frustrates me.\u201d The monk responded simply, \u201cShhhhhh, listen, its here.\u201d A moment passed \u00a0and the king listened. The silence so moved him, that he took off his crown and placed next to the monk, and said, \u201cMy dear sir, \u00a0I have been a king of vanity and power. \u00a0Please forgive me. My kingdom is just a passing, and yours is forever. All my questions have just been answered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A king asked a monk, where is the breath you breath? Where is the music you play? Where is the love you speak of? Is it tangible? How come I can not see it? \u00a0The king insisted, \u201cshow me the actual music, come on show it to me, prove to me there is music.\u201d \u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[153,241,285,352,353,427,475,498,648,686],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual","category-uncategorized","tag-crown","tag-forever","tag-heart","tag-king","tag-kingdom","tag-monk","tag-parable","tag-power","tag-the-king","tag-vanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}