{"id":717,"date":"2013-11-20T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:16:06","slug":"meditation-point-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Point #104"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shake off this sadness, and recover your Spirit;
\nsluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
\nthat brushes your heel as it turns going by,
\nthe man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.<\/p>\n

– – Miguel de Unamuno<\/a><\/p>\n

To often we let life get us down.\u00a0 In our state of sadness we squander the time life has given us.\u00a0 Imagine that you are given the last hot dog on the planet and instead of savoring it (and perhaps sharing it) instead you complained because you did not have any mustard!\u00a0 What a waste!\u00a0 Perhaps you have been blind your entire life and given the gift of sight for a day you complain that the Sun is to bright, instead of soaking in the beauty of a rose.<\/p>\n

We are given these type of gifts every day but they are common to us so we take them for granted.\u00a0 How foolish we are to shroud our Spirit in sadness instead of joy.\u00a0 Spoiled, we loose sight of the gifts around us.\u00a0 Every moment is a gift, how many moments have you wasted?\u00a0 If you dwell on the answer to that question then you have learned nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shake off this sadness, and recover your Spirit; sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. – – Miguel de Unamuno To often we let life get us down.\u00a0 In our Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}