{"id":215,"date":"2011-04-07T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:19:00","slug":"tony-vowles-zen-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tony-vowles-zen-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Vowles&#39; Zen moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">After Zen<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">My moment came when the old man<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">showed me the outside of the inside door:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Don&#39;t show me your suffering<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">show me your insight!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">and I knew my wagging tail steered me,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">heard the grasshopper&#39;s<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">incessant prodding and questioning at my feet.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Besides, sitting made me cranky.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Later, as I walked,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">pierced by the metronomic rain,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I noticed a cat scrying for mice,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">a droplet hung from his nose,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">and one green eye of intent<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">became the Moon.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Tony Vowles<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> is the author of <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theastrologyblog.com\">theastrologyblog<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> and has had his poetry previously published in <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Dawn Treader <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">magazine.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Zen&nbsp;My moment came when the old manshowed me the outside of the inside door:&nbsp;Don&#39;t show me your sufferingshow me your insight!&nbsp;and I knew my wagging tail steered me,heard the grasshopper&#39;sincessant prodding and questioning at my feet.Besides, sitting made me cranky.&nbsp;Later, as I walked,pierced by the metronomic rain,I noticed a cat scrying for mice,a droplet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}