{"id":2336,"date":"2015-10-07T04:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2015-10-07T04:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:54:46","slug":"monks-who-have-never-loved-will-never-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/monks-who-have-never-loved-will-never-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Monks Who Have Never Loved Will Never Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow can you suffer because of something that doesn\u2019t exist?\u201d ~ Buddhist Monk Elyane S. Youssef met in Nepal <\/p>\n

Read her article here<\/a> <\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Buddist monk once asked Elyane S. Youssef the question \u201cHow can you suffer because of something that doesn\u2019t exist?\u201d… and I said to myself… he has never known love, especially unrequited…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is desired but not achieved
\nThe heart sore in desire can make
\nWhen we with a hope its possible ourselves have deceived
\nOur peace of mind we from ourselves we take.
\nWe think, therefor it is, it seems insane
\nEven though it does not exist
\nBecause we desired it, it exists though on a single plane
\nThat is the point a Bhuddist monk once missed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow can you suffer because of something that doesn\u2019t exist?\u201d ~ Buddhist Monk Elyane S. Youssef met in Nepal Read her article here What is desired but not achieved The heart sore in desire can make When we with a hope its possible ourselves have deceived Our peace of mind …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[724,7,446,880],"tags":[2455,2456,201,2459,2457,2458],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heartbreak-poems","category-life","category-moral","category-philosophy","tag-bhuddism","tag-buddha","tag-desire","tag-elyane-s-youssef","tag-monk","tag-wisdom","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-BG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2339,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/this-too-shall-pass\/","url_meta":{"origin":2336,"position":0},"title":"This Too Shall Pass – #zenquote #zen","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th October 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Elyane S. 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