{"id":596,"date":"2009-05-21T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/video-of-the-day-john-cage-and-true-zen.html"},"modified":"2009-05-21T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:21:03","slug":"video-of-the-day-john-cage-and-true-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/video-of-the-day-john-cage-and-true-zen.html","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Day: John Cage and True Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/john-cage\/about-the-composer\/471\/\">John Cage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen\">Zen<\/a> student of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/bud\/mzb\/oxherd.htm\">D.T. Suzuki,<\/a> wrote the following piece.<br \/>Brilliant display of orchestral meditation, or too gimmicky and easy to achieve?<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hUJagb7hL0E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hUJagb7hL0E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cage, Zen student of D.T. 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