{"id":128,"date":"2005-11-15T06:52:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=128"},"modified":"2005-11-14T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T22:52:51","slug":"the-goal-of-internal-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/the-goal-of-internal-disarmament\/","title":{"rendered":"the goal of \r\n\r\ninternal disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/13\/AR2005111300954.html\">A Simple Message Of Hope And Peace<\/a> By <\/p>\n<p>Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>[The Dalai Lama] talked of love and hate, of religion and ethics, of global peace <\/p>\n<p>and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>He talked of malls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like shopping centers,&#8221; the monk, in gold and crimson robes, confessed in his <\/p>\n<p>stilted English, smiling as his audience roared. &#8220;Beautiful. When I go [to] these areas, I want this, I want that, I want that,&#8221; he said, <\/p>\n<p>jabbing a finger in the air as though on a spree at Tysons Corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Then, [I] ask myself, you really need that? The answer <\/p>\n<p>is no.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His main points, though, were more profound: the need for religious tolerance, the importance of carrying out <\/p>\n<p>faith in daily actions and <strong>the goal of &#8220;internal disarmament&#8221; &#8212; combating one&#8217;s own hatred and anger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Simple Message Of Hope And Peace By Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post Staff Writer [The Dalai Lama] talked of love and hate, of religion and ethics, of global peace and nuclear weapons. He talked of malls. &#8220;I like shopping centers,&#8221; the monk, in gold and crimson robes, confessed in his stilted English, smiling as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/the-goal-of-internal-disarmament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the goal of <\/p>\n<p>internal disarmament<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}