{"id":2924,"date":"2025-11-17T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/18536-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:29:15","slug":"18536-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/18536-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmigration on the Revolving Wheel or Rebirths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once there was a self aware tree<br>\nit possessed a rudimentary consciousness<\/p>\n<p>it stood for 50 peaceful years<br>\nin a serene forest<\/p>\n<p>until loggers sawed it down and<br>\ncut it into pieces<\/p>\n<p>and the pieces each held<br>\nonto pieces of its consciousness<\/p>\n<p>for about a week before the pieces died<br>\nand the consciousness regrouped<\/p>\n<p>and evaporated into the ether<br>\nwhere it remained for a while<\/p>\n<p>until it amassed into a pin point<br>\nand returned to earth an insect<\/p>\n<p>a step up the spiritual evolutionary chain<br>\nto its eventual rebirths into an enlightened human<\/p>\n<p>and finally gets off the revolving wheel<br>\nof transmigration.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once there was a self aware tree it possessed a rudimentary consciousness it stood for 50 peaceful years in a serene forest until loggers sawed it down and cut it into pieces and the pieces each held onto pieces of its consciousness for about a week before the pieces died and the consciousness regrouped and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/18536-2\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}