{"id":3484,"date":"2014-05-30T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:50:12","slug":"buddhas-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Buddha&#8217;s Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/buddhalight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/buddhalight-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha's Light\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/buddhalight-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/buddhalight-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes &#8230; at just the right moment, if we look in the right direction with an open heart we do see the Light.<\/p>\n<p>The redneck captured this brilliant sparkle cast from the Buddha who sits peacefully at the water&#8217;s edge in our koi pond today with his android phone.\u00a0 He has a certain way of re-framing life and all of its sharp edges that can cut through the darkness.\u00a0 Well that and he has no less than two high-end flashlights within arms reach at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s a blog here somewhere about the Light &#8230; about having hope for brighter days when we are feeling so lost in our dark night of the soul.\u00a0 But sometimes the picture left un-captioned or cluttered by our words speaks volumes more than our Faith could possibly try and explain to the naked &#8220;I&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes &#8230; at just the right moment, if we look in the right direction with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma","category-i-cant-see"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}