{"id":4690,"date":"2011-08-27T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2013-01-25T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:21:38","slug":"change-and-constancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/change-and-constancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Change and Constancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The other day Phil sent me a link to the following video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27246366\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It reminded me of something I vaguely remembered hearing on a martial arts documentary when I was a child. \u00a0I can&#8217;t remember the exact words. I think the narrator was talking about Buddhist\u00a0monks when he said something like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;When on pilgrimage, the monks continually move, in the hope that, by being in constant motion and change, they will be able to discern what is eternal&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I may be misremembering the words or have them out of context, but I would say that the above statement does ring true for me. Having done some travelling I have noticed that in moving around you <em>do<\/em> tend to notice, not only the differences between peoples and cultures, but also their similarities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Maybe we&#8217;re not as different as we think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/journey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/journey1.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day Phil sent me a link to the following video: It reminded me of something I vaguely remembered hearing on a martial arts documentary when I was a child. \u00a0I can&#8217;t remember the exact words. I think the narrator was talking about Buddhist\u00a0monks when he said something like: &#8220;When on pilgrimage, the monks continually move, in the hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[372,369,370,371],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-buddism","tag-change","tag-constancy","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17272,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/17272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}