{"id":54959,"date":"2017-04-26T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54959"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:43:11","slug":"empty-handed-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54959","title":{"rendered":"Empty handed thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on filling the anxious void ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Upper panel, below, saying of <strong>Saadi<\/strong>, from the Gulistan, presented by <strong>Idries Shah<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Way-Sufi-Idries-Shah\/dp\/0863040837\">The Way of the Sufi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-thief-empty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-thief-empty.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-thief-empty-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lower panel, above, a haiku by the Zen monk <strong>Ryokan<\/strong>, from <strong>Stephen Mitchell<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enlightened-Heart-Anthology-Sacred-Poetry\/dp\/006092053X\">The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ry%C5%8Dkan\">tells the tale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One evening a thief visited Ryokan&#8217;s hut at the base of the mountain only to discover there was nothing to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. &#8220;You have come a long way to visit me,&#8221; he told the prowler, &#8220;and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.&#8221; The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. &#8220;Poor fellow,&#8221; he mused, &#8220;I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful, the moon? A tautology, surely..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; on filling the anxious void ] . Upper panel, below, saying of Saadi, from the Gulistan, presented by Idries Shah in The Way of the Sufi: Lower panel, above, a haiku by the Zen monk Ryokan, from Stephen Mitchell, The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry. Wikipedia tells the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,309,627,741,714,1,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-criminals","category-doublequotes","category-poetry","category-sufi","category-uncategorized","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54959","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=54959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54965,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54959\/revisions\/54965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}