{"id":943,"date":"2009-12-03T03:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/12\/the-buddha-at-work-turn-and-face-the-strange-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.html"},"modified":"2009-12-03T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:28:31","slug":"the-buddha-at-work-turn-and-face-the-strange-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/12\/the-buddha-at-work-turn-and-face-the-strange-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha at Work &#8211; &#8220;Turn and Face the Strange&#8230; Changes.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Look out, you rock and rollers. Pretty soon now, you&#8217;re gonna get older!<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n8v486aUYu0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n8v486aUYu0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/i>I heard somewhere that Bowie did some time in a monastery before he wrote this song. Can&#8217;t say if that&#8217;s true but I&#8217;d like to believe it&#8217;s so. In any case, I thought it was a good intro to our topic of the day &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramita#Mahayana_Buddhism\">Sixth Paramita<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wisdom_in_Buddhism\">praj\u00c3\u00b1a<\/a> or wisdom.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out, you rock and rollers. Pretty soon now, you&#8217;re gonna get older! I heard somewhere that Bowie did some time in a monastery before he wrote this song. Can&#8217;t say if that&#8217;s true but I&#8217;d like to believe it&#8217;s so. 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