{"id":21646,"date":"2024-10-10T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/?post_type=play&#038;p=21646"},"modified":"2024-10-21T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:55:31","slug":"present-moment","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/present-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Present moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21766\" src=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4-1-\u05d1\u05d6\u05de\u05df-\u05d4\u05d5\u05d5\u05d4-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4-1-\u05d1\u05d6\u05de\u05df-\u05d4\u05d5\u05d5\u05d4-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4-1-\u05d1\u05d6\u05de\u05df-\u05d4\u05d5\u05d5\u05d4.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>Meditation: What is really going on there? When the eyes are closed, and the legs fall asleep<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A show about what happens in the feverish mind of a desperate and skeptical girl, last night<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">of a meditation course at a monastery in Thailand, where she must stay awake and practice meditation 24 hours a day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The play takes us into the mind of an Israeli girl who is sitting in a monastery in Thailand, on a vipassana meditation course, following a broken heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We watch what unfolds in her mind: anger, doubts, pains and anxieties. Quite a mess<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Slowly the practice puts her mind in order, phenomena appear and disappear more quickly when she learns to observe them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the process deepens, pain from the past emerges, memories of her father whom she lost as a child<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She relives love, abandonment, anxiety, loneliness and suffering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She learns to forgive her parents, herself, those around her, takes a step towards compassion and liberation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She discovers in herself the ability to sympathize and understand the other person wherever he is and to wish for his happiness<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Through it we experience the universal and personal spirituality involved in full presence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation: What is really going on there? When the eyes are closed, and the legs fall asleep A show about what happens in the feverish mind of a desperate and skeptical girl, last night of a meditation course at a monastery in Thailand, where she must stay awake and practice meditation 24 hours a day&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/present-moment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/21646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/21646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22155,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/21646\/revisions\/22155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}