{"id":438,"date":"2007-08-18T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-silent-s-4.html"},"modified":"2007-08-18T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T10:38:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-silent-s-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-silent-s-4.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Silent Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>Today, I was going to explain how death is merely an illusion, that we truly live forever without end, that reincarnation is as real as the sunrise (just not in the simplistic manner often portrayed), that life is not at all as it seems &#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230; and I was going to do so in such a short, clear and direct way &#8230; without superstition or hocus-pocus &#8230; that not even the greatest skeptic could argue with its reasoning.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">But I think I will leave all that for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead, let us have a 30-minute silent sitting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/operator11.com\/swf\/o11player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#fff\" quality=\"high\" base=\"http:\/\/operator11.com\/swf\/\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"shw_id=253&amp;epi_id=14383\" height=\"362\" width=\"432\"><\/embed><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>Press on arrow for &#8216;play&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.Today, I was going to explain how death is merely an illusion, that we truly live forever without end, that reincarnation is as real as the sunrise (just not in the simplistic manner often portrayed), that life is not at all as it seems &#8230; 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