{"id":2704,"date":"2023-08-04T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:44:45","slug":"the-proud-grasshopper-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"The Proud Grasshopper, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Proud Grasshopper<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kingyu Osho used to dance around his bowl of rice<br \/>\nbefore sitting down to eat, much to the chagrin<br \/>\nof the rest of the sangha.<\/p>\n<p>You are your own ledge, and there is no need<br \/>\nto rack your brain about whether or not to jump.<br \/>\nWhy scold yourself for anything?<\/p>\n<p>We all hold the same string, and every night matures<br \/>\ninto day, and who are we to judge those who pierce<br \/>\nthe nostrils of an ox?<\/p>\n<p>Face any direction, and leap. It\u2019s OK to land<br \/>\nin the center of the circle, but you needn\u2019t capture the tiger,<br \/>\nor try to tell the difference between dragons and snakes.<\/p>\n<p>The universe expands, like love expands, and hate<br \/>\neventually arrives at emptiness, and the clam swallows<br \/>\nthe moon, and if you pick up a toad it will pee in your hands,<\/p>\n<p>and somewhere a rhinoceros swishes its tail. And at some point<br \/>\nyou will need to wash your own bowl, and the Buddha will<br \/>\nhold out a flower and nod towards the monastery of the trees,<\/p>\n<p>where the problem of death disappears into the sutras<br \/>\nof your own dancing, and look\u2014a grasshopper<br \/>\nis watching you with pride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Proud Grasshopper by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Kingyu Osho used to dance around his bowl of rice before sitting down to eat, much to the chagrin of the rest of the sangha. You are your own ledge, and there is no need to rack your brain about whether or not to jump. Why scold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}