{"id":16,"date":"2021-07-12T17:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=16"},"modified":"2021-07-12T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:51:03","slug":"2021-7-12-who-knew-tolstoy-and-schopenhauer-were-buddhists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Who knew Tolstoy and Schopenhauer were Buddhists?!   :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">From Tolstoy\u2019s \u201cA Calendar of Wisdom\u201d:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Every good or charitable action, every unprofitable assistance which supports other people in need, when we come to its origins and foundations, becomes a mysterious and unexplainable thing, because it comes out of the mysterious understanding of the unity of all living beings, and it can be explained by nothing else. \u2014 quoting Arthur Schopenhauer<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tolstoy\u2019s words: <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We are separate beings, it seems, but in our inner life we are closely connected with all living things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We can feel some of the vibrations of this spiritual world: some of them have not reached us yet, but they are moving, as the vibrations of light from the distant stars are moving across the universe; they move, though they are not yet visible to our eyes.<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:130px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n              \n              class=\"image-block-wrapper\"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"\n                position: relative;\n                \n                  padding-bottom:56.153846740722656%;\n                \n                overflow: hidden;\n              \"\n              ><br \/>\n              <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5ad8619685ede19c4ee1ce54\/1626112234494-0HHLLSG2NVJ8JRS8Z4HE\/p03xsw49.jpeg\" alt=\"p03xsw49.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5ad8619685ede19c4ee1ce54\/1626112234494-0HHLLSG2NVJ8JRS8Z4HE\/p03xsw49.jpeg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5ad8619685ede19c4ee1ce54\/1626112234494-0HHLLSG2NVJ8JRS8Z4HE\/p03xsw49.jpeg\" data-image-dimensions=\"130x73\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"p03xsw49.jpeg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"60ec80eafa40056e74d1f16b\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tolstoy\u2019s \u201cA Calendar of Wisdom\u201d: Every good or charitable action, every unprofitable assistance which supports other people in need, when we come to its origins and foundations, becomes a mysterious and unexplainable thing, because it comes out of the mysterious understanding of the unity of all living beings, and it can be explained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}