{"id":911,"date":"2013-04-16T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:28:53","slug":"a-precious-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2013\/04\/16\/a-precious-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Precious Human Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After yesterday&#8217;s bombing in Boston, I am at a loss. There are no words that can capture my disbelief and deep sorrow. At these moments, I look for hope and reminders of the goodness in this beautiful world.\u00a0His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is really skillful at this and I thought I would share his reminder with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_YPKzRA_xwE\/TyXAPa6f8GI\/AAAAAAAAAbk\/UFhsIYGVqrM\/s400\/dalailama10.jpg?resize=400%2C269\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Precious Human Life:<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery day, think as you wake up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Today I am fortunate to have woken up.<br \/>\nI am alive, I have a precious human life.<br \/>\nI am not going to waste it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am going to use<br \/>\nall my energies to develop myself,<br \/>\nto expand my heart out to others,<br \/>\nto achieve enlightenment for<br \/>\nthe benefit of all beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am going to have<br \/>\nkind thoughts towards others.<br \/>\nI am not going to get angry,<br \/>\nor think badly about others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am going to benefit others<br \/>\nas much as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hackread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/414719-dalai-lama-tibet.jpg?resize=584%2C329\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s bombing in Boston, I am at a loss. There are no words that can capture my disbelief and deep sorrow. At these moments, I look for hope and reminders of the goodness in this beautiful world.\u00a0His Holiness the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2013\/04\/16\/a-precious-human-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99],"tags":[421,250],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-precious-human-life","tag-his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}