{"id":199672,"date":"2021-11-22T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=199672"},"modified":"2021-11-18T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:41:47","slug":"who-can-calm-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/who-can-calm-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Can Calm the Mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I tried to tell my mind to let it go.<br \/>\nInstead, it controlled me some more!<br \/>\nLike a load it grew.<br \/>\nHeavier by the day.<br \/>\nThen it became an old rusty cage.<br \/>\nFilled with thoughts and ruminations.<br \/>\nHarmony was gone.<br \/>\nBrewing and brooding with bitter rage.<br \/>\nYou cannot be imprisoned.<br \/>\nYou have the keys, I told myself.<br \/>\nBut did my mind listen?<br \/>\nStop the piercing thoughts.<br \/>\nCatch them, purge them.<br \/>\nScorch them and cleanse them.<br \/>\nBreak that rusty cage.<br \/>\nSet yourself free\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who can calm the mind?<br \/>\nI ask myself?<br \/>\nSearch and seek.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a treasure you must find.<br \/>\nHow can I leave those thoughts behind?<br \/>\nThe mind is a battlefield.<br \/>\nBreak that rusty old cage!<br \/>\nFight that inward rage.<br \/>\nBe that change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">_____________________________________<\/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>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>I tried to tell my mind to let it go.<br \/>\nInstead, it controlled me some more!<br \/>\nLike a load it grew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-199672","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\/199672","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=199672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}