{"id":40,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/mending-the-world\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:05:53","slug":"mending-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/mending-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display: block;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nelson-mandela.jpg\" alt=\"nelson-mandela\" width=\"428\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nelson-mandela.jpg 428w, https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nelson-mandela-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><br \/>\nI posted this on a different blog site December 8, 2013. I thought it was worth revisiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I\u2019ve noticed a curious thing since Nelson Mandela\u2019s death three days ago\u2014 astounding grace occurring for both my friends and myself. It\u2019s the kind of grace that doesn\u2019t necessarily make \u201cthings\u201d better but rather opens the clouds of patterned oppression revealing insights of loving-kindness, generosity and acceptance\u2014correcting course from obstructive thinking to open heartedness. It is as if all that love, patience, and compassion that lived in the one man, Nelson Mandela, was like a dandelion flower. When he passed from his worldly form all the little winged seedlings were cast abroad over the world.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">I heard a speech that Nelson Mandela delivered in Britain right after his release from prison. With his deep soulful smile he said to the British people, \u201cI love every one of you.\u201d He wasn\u2019t just saying I love you collectively as \u201ca people\u201d he was speaking into the heart of each individual. He was a true Bodhisattva.\u00a0 In Judaism there is a principle called Tikun Olam\u2014to mend the world. We are not obliged to complete the job, neither are we exempt from trying, from doing our part in making a better world. Nelson Mandela\u2019s part in mending the world was very large.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here is an idea to honor the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Decide for one day to look into the eyes of every person you encounter as if you are looking into the eyes of Nelson Mandela. See them as Bodhisattvas, as loving menders of the world, as one who through patience and loving-kindness can and has changed history for the betterment of thousands of people. Notice how you feel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%; clear: both; visibility: hidden;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on a different blog site December 8, 2013. I thought it was worth revisiting. I\u2019ve noticed a curious thing since Nelson Mandela\u2019s death three days ago\u2014 astounding grace occurring for both my friends and myself. It\u2019s the kind of grace that doesn\u2019t necessarily make \u201cthings\u201d better but rather opens the clouds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}