{"id":56149,"date":"2017-07-29T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56149"},"modified":"2017-07-29T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T15:02:42","slug":"fly-fishing-with-trump-priebus-and-suzuki-roshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56149","title":{"rendered":"Fly fishing with Trump, Priebus and Suzuki Roshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; or fly swatting, fly watching, in white house and zendo ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/344431-trump-once-summoned-priebus-to-kill-a-fly-in-oval-office-report\">Trump once summoned Priebus to kill a fly in Oval Office: report<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/07\/28\/trump-names-homeland-security-secretary-john-kelly-as-white-house-chief-of-staff-ousting-reince-priebus\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> that once during an Oval Office meeting, a fly began buzzing around Trump\u2019s head, distracting him. Trump eventually summoned Priebus and told him to kill the fly. As a senior White House staffer, the chief of staff would not ordinarily be tasked with such matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write something about the fly being the buzzing, distracting thought that disturbs the quiet of meditation &#8212; but hey, I&#8217;m not a zen master, I just play one, as the saying goes..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shunryu Suzuki<\/strong>, om the other hand, just might be the real thing, and in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arvindguptatoys.com\/arvindgupta\/zenmind.pdf\">Zen Mind, Beginner&#8217;s Mind<\/a>, on pp 68-69 he leaves the question of the fly open:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/suzukis-fly-pp-68-69-ZMBM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/suzukis-fly-pp-68-69-ZMBM.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/suzukis-fly-pp-68-69-ZMBM-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; or fly swatting, fly watching, in white house and zendo ] . Trump once summoned Priebus to kill a fly in Oval Office: report A source told The Washington Post that once during an Oval Office meeting, a fly began buzzing around Trump\u2019s head, distracting him. Trump eventually summoned Priebus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,852,1,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-meditation","category-uncategorized","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56149","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=56149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56154,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56149\/revisions\/56154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}