{"id":3357,"date":"2011-04-06T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T07:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/04\/06\/and-govinda-saw-that-this-mask-like-smile-this\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T07:56:53","slug":"and-govinda-saw-that-this-mask-like-smile-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/04\/06\/and-govinda-saw-that-this-mask-like-smile-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

And Govinda saw that this mask-like smile, this smile of unity over the flowing forms, this smile of simultaneousness over the thousands of births and deaths-this smile of Siddhartha-was exactly the same as the calm, delicate, impenetrable, perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking, wise, thousand-fold smile of Gotama, the Buddha, as he perceived it with awe a hundred times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha<\/em><\/span> (via heartmindspirit<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And Govinda saw that this mask-like smile, this smile of unity over the flowing forms, this smile of simultaneousness over the thousands of births and deaths-this smile of Siddhartha-was exactly the same as the calm, delicate, impenetrable, perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking, wise, thousand-fold smile of Gotama, the Buddha, as he perceived it with awe a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-S9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5026,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/03\/09\/it-is-perhaps-societys-denial-of-our-own-dark\/","url_meta":{"origin":3357,"position":0},"title":"It is perhaps society’s denial\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 9, 2009","format":"quote","excerpt":"It is perhaps society\u2019s denial of our own dark eros that enrages and offends most when we see it demonstrated in others, for that denial surely perverts any attempt at self-knowledge, and forces the soul to assume a posture of balance and completeness that is false,lame, and ultimately unhealthy. 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