{"id":4514,"date":"2011-11-17T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2011-11-17T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T07:53:39","slug":"the-peace-officers-and-the-practitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Officers and the Practitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; disturbing and keeping the peace, OWS Oakland, paradox ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/disturbing-the-peace.jpg\" title=\"disturbing-the-peace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/disturbing-the-peace.jpg\" alt=\"disturbing-the-peace.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paradox.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit like the koan where a zen monk is asked &#8220;is it the flag or the wind that moves?&#8221; &#8212;  is peace what the meditator is dipping into, or is peace what the occupier \/ meditator is disturbing while the peace officers are maintaining it for the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo taken a few moments \/ minutes later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/meditator-arrest.png\" title=\"meditator-arrest.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/meditator-arrest.png\" alt=\"meditator-arrest.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in fact, the whole incident does seem to have passed off pretty peacefully (in both senses of the word): as the Chronicle&#8217;s SFGate blog put it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/article?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/11\/16\/MNGC1LVES1.DTL&amp;object=%2Fg%2Fav%2Fmovies%2F2011%2F11%2F14%2FOccupy15_1274222929001.bcv\">in a caption<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police peacefully detain Occupy Oakland protester, &#8220;Pancho&#8221; Ramos Stierle who was meditating while police cleared out the Occupy Oakland camp early in the morning on Monday, November 14, 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the zen master said, &#8220;Neither and both: it&#8217;s the mind that moves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; disturbing and keeping the peace, OWS Oakland, paradox ] . Paradox. It&#8217;s a bit like the koan where a zen monk is asked &#8220;is it the flag or the wind that moves?&#8221; &#8212; is peace what the meditator is dipping into, or is peace what the occupier \/ meditator is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,526,685,688,562,436,1,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-charles-cameron","category-ows","category-peace","category-perception","category-psychology","category-uncategorized","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}