{"id":758,"date":"2009-08-20T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/08\/in-the-times-today.html"},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T09:22:24","slug":"in-the-times-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/in-the-times-today.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Times today . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An i<a href=\"http:\/\/happydays.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/self-meditating\/\">nteresting piece by Robert Wright<\/a> about his first experience with a Vipassana retreat, and his anticipation of the second one he will shortly undertake.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">. &nbsp;. . I attended my first and only silent meditation retreat. It was just about the most amazing experience of my life. . &nbsp;.I came away from that week feeling I had found a new kind of happiness, deeper than the kind I&#8217;d always pursued. I also came away a better person &#8212; just ask my wife. (And neither of those things lasted &#8212; just ask my wife.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wright is the author of <i>The Evolution of God,<\/i> which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/env\/atoms_eden\/2009\/06\/24\/evolution_of_god\/\">got a great write up in Salon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/evolutionofgod.net\/reviews\/\">a number of other sterling reviews<\/a>, and is definitely on my reading list.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting piece by Robert Wright about his first experience with a Vipassana retreat, and his anticipation of the second one he will shortly undertake. . &nbsp;. . I attended my first and only silent meditation retreat. It was just about the most amazing experience of my life. . &nbsp;.I came away from that week&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media","category-buddhism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In the Times today . . - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/in-the-times-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the Times today . . - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An interesting piece by Robert Wright about his first experience with a Vipassana retreat, and his anticipation of the second one he will shortly undertake. . &nbsp;. . 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