{"id":246,"date":"2018-01-09T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T11:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/?p=246"},"modified":"2018-03-19T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:23:02","slug":"take-it-from-me-a-buddhist-monk-cleaning-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/2018\/01\/09\/take-it-from-me-a-buddhist-monk-cleaning-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Take it from me, a Buddhist monk: cleaning is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/05\/buddhist-monk-cleaning-good-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Guardian<\/em>, 5 Jan. 2018)<\/a>\u00a0concentrates on the beneficial effects of cleaning your house. But the following paragraph caught our eye:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The characters for \u201chuman being\u201d in Japanese mean \u201cperson\u201d and \u201cbetween\u201d. Human being is \u201ca person in between\u201d. Thus, you as a human being only exist through your relations with others \u2013 people such as friends, colleagues and family. You as a person have some particular words, facial expressions and behaviours, but these arise only through your interaction and connections with other people. This is the Buddhist concept \u201cen\u201d or interdependence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a basic premise of our project, an insight that can be traced back through the sociology of Erving Goffman to the philosophy of Hegel and beyond, and one that we shall be pursuing in our ancient sources. Good to see that it finds expression in Buddhism too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/05\/buddhist-monk-cleaning-good-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/05\/buddhist-monk-cleaning-good-for-you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Featured image:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0Alamy via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/05\/buddhist-monk-cleaning-good-for-you#img-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece (The Guardian, 5 Jan. 2018)\u00a0concentrates on the beneficial effects of cleaning your house. But the following paragraph caught our eye: The characters for \u201chuman being\u201d in Japanese mean \u201cperson\u201d and \u201cbetween\u201d. Human being is \u201ca person in between\u201d. Thus, you as a human being only exist through your relations with others \u2013 people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/2018\/01\/09\/take-it-from-me-a-buddhist-monk-cleaning-is-good-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take it from me, a Buddhist monk: cleaning is good for you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[34,33,36,32,35,37],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-buddhism","tag-cleaning","tag-inner-peace","tag-interdependence","tag-japan","tag-meditation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}