{"id":23759,"date":"2018-07-08T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/?p=23759"},"modified":"2018-03-17T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:20:19","slug":"23759-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/23759-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Stories: Buddha at Bedtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CJ interviews author Dharmachari Nagaraja about his newest book for children and adults &#8220;The Calm Buddha at Bedtime&#8221;. Nagaraj translates the Jataka Book of Parables told by the Buddha into children stories. During the interview, Nagaraja reads the story of &#8220;Crystal and Pixie&#8221; a tale about how suffering is inevitable. Plus, get three meditations from his book that are based on Buddhist mindfulness practices.<\/p>\n<h2>Buddhist Stories: MP3 Interview with Dharmachari Nagaraja<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/209-Fire-it-up-with-CJ-25229902\/episode\/buddha-bedtime-jataka-parables-29062526\/?embed=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Buddhist Stories: YouTube Interview with Dharmachari Nagaraja<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buddha at Bedtime\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PW5hkdg8APo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>About Dharmachari Nagaraja<\/h2>\n<p>Dharmachari Nagaraja regularly presents BBC Radio 2&#8217;s Pause for Thought with Terry Wogan, and has appeared on BBC 1&#8217;s Heaven and Earth programme. A practising Buddhist for nearly 20 years, he formerly ran the Covent Garden Meditation Centre in London. He is currently involved with the Glasgow Buddhist Centre, where he works as a psychotherapist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJ interviews author Dharmachari Nagaraja about his newest book for children and adults &#8220;The Calm Buddha at Bedtime&#8221;. Nagaraj translates the Jataka Book of Parables told by the Buddha into children stories. During the interview, Nagaraja reads the story of &#8220;Crystal and Pixie&#8221; a tale about how suffering is inevitable. Plus, get three meditations from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2539,2538,339,2535,2537,2540,2534,2536,2541,140,2524],"yst_prominent_words":[2532,1659,1808,1807,2531,2533,1441,2528,2527,1111,2530,2529,2526,1817],"class_list":["post-23759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book","tag-buddha","tag-books-on-buddhism","tag-buddhist-book-of-parables","tag-budha-at-bedtime","tag-children","tag-dharmachari-nagaraja","tag-jataka-book","tag-joe-dispenza","tag-meditation","tag-taoism"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Buddhist-Stories.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23763,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions\/23763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23759"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}