{"id":1226,"date":"2010-06-23T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2010-06-23T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:17:54","slug":"bruces-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/bruces-wisdom","title":{"rendered":"Bruce&#8217;s Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was reminded of this, when I heard it quoted in some music recently.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably Bruce&#8217;s most memorable quote is ,\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<em>Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BlacKKawaru\">BlacKKawaru<\/a> summaries it perfectly with,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<\/em><em><strong>It means that<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> you should focus on the meanings behind action and not the actions themselves.<br \/>\nIf someone is pointing to the moon and you focus on the finger, you do not see the moon.<\/strong><br \/>\nIf the instruction is to kick\ufeff with emotion and you focus on the command, you are listening to the instruction, not improving your kick.<br \/>\nEven if your kick gets stronger (i.e. through anger) it will not become better.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sDW6vkuqGLg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sDW6vkuqGLg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was reminded of this, when I heard it quoted in some music recently. It&#8217;s probably Bruce&#8217;s most memorable quote is ,\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory!&#8221; BlacKKawaru summaries it perfectly with, &#8220;It means that you should focus on the meanings behind action and not the actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}