{"id":195861,"date":"2021-09-27T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=195861"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T08:30:03","slug":"live-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/live-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of your entire life give just one moment!<br \/>\nAll of your life that has gone past,<br \/>\nall to come after it, \u2013 so you know it won\u2019t last,<br \/>\nmake perfect the present, \u2013\u00a0 the Now.<br \/>\nDeath, destruction, disease and even the pandemic has taught us<br \/>\nthere is no perfection, no possession,\u00a0 no attachment- why the Fuss?<\/p>\n<p>The search is for wisdom.<br \/>\nIs it a Thought or a Feeling?<br \/>\nIs it to be found in the mind?<br \/>\nOh but the mind is an artifact.<br \/>\nMaybe even an abstract,<br \/>\nlive in the moment! Enjoy the present<br \/>\nthe pandemic may be here to stay<br \/>\nlive in an\u00a0 enlightened way.<br \/>\nForget the failures of everyday.<br \/>\nJust let it languish away.<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of your entire life give just one moment!<br \/>\nAll of your life that has gone past,<br \/>\nall to come after it, \u2013 so you know it won\u2019t last, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-195861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}