{"id":157,"date":"2018-10-11T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/10\/11\/parable-of-day-can-we-stop-flow-of\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T11:10:30","slug":"parable-of-day-can-we-stop-flow-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/parable-of-day-can-we-stop-flow-of","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: Can We Stop the Flow of Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"617\" data-original-width=\"807\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A young disciple approached an elderly hermit and complained of being haunted by sinful thoughts. The elder took him outdoors into the open field and ordered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cSpread out your lap\u2026 Open your bosom!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disciple obeyed him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cCan you stop the wind from blowing into your clothes?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cNo, I can\u2019t!..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe same is also true with thoughts&#8230; We cannot stop their flow. We can only prevent them from remaining permanently in our souls\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Translated by The Catalog of Good Deeds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young disciple approached an elderly hermit and complained of being haunted by sinful thoughts. The elder took him outdoors into the open field&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-and-parables","tag-orthodox-wisdom","tag-stories-and-parables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-5-1.jpg","views":{"total":136,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768404293},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20407,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/20407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}