{"id":1849,"date":"2012-12-07T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2012-12-07T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T09:58:49","slug":"1849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/1849","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled on this and really liked it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The opposite of love is not hate, it&#8217;s indifference.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite of art is not ugliness, it&#8217;s indifference.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite of faith is not heresy, it&#8217;s indifference.<\/p>\n<p>And the opposite of life is not death, it&#8217;s indifference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Elie_Wiesel\">Elie Wiesel<\/a> (1986)<\/p>\n<p>This chimes with my practice. It is easy to take the equanimity of Buddhism <em>(upekkh\u0101)<\/em> to be a kind of laid back indifference when the opposite is the case.\u00a0 The combination of the four Brahmavihara (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity) plug us into experiencing life to the full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled on this and really liked it: The opposite of love is not hate, it&#8217;s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it&#8217;s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it&#8217;s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it&#8217;s indifference. Elie Wiesel (1986) This chimes with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness_buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}