{"id":35566,"date":"2013-10-28T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=35566"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:17","slug":"meditating-on-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/10\/meditating-on-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditating on the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16,<br \/>\nwhoever is running this ashram<br \/>\nturned up the heat\u2014<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been sweating ever since.<br \/>\nThen, some weird roshi<br \/>\ndisguised as George Bush<br \/>\nappeared on my TV<br \/>\nand gave me an impossible koan<br \/>\nabout a moral war.<br \/>\nWhen I fall asleep watching the news<br \/>\na pretty newscaster wakes me up<br \/>\nby telling me about bombs,<br \/>\nand I remember the roshi&#8217;s stick<br \/>\nbopping my shoulder.<br \/>\nGeneral Schwarzkopf instructs me about<br \/>\nthe paradoxes of desire and suffering,<br \/>\nand, as usual, I mostly think<br \/>\nabout the pain in my knees<br \/>\nfrom sitting cross-legged,<br \/>\nwhile the pain of others<br \/>\nremains a televised abstraction.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really tired of this war meditation\u2014<br \/>\nwhen this retreat is over<br \/>\nI&#8217;m moving to another planet<br \/>\nwhere I won&#8217;t have to do<br \/>\nall this Buddhist stuff.<br \/>\n_______________________<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16,<br \/>\nwhoever is running this ashram<br \/>\nturned up the heat\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566","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=35566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}