{"id":100902,"date":"2020-04-08T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100902"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:48:14","slug":"physical-distancing-during-corona-and-social-media-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/08\/physical-distancing-during-corona-and-social-media-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical distancing during corona and social media distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We all are educated and warned over and over by authorities\nthat a fair physical distance should be maintained at all times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a group has initiated a WhatsApp group to practice meditation remotely at home from 6 to 7 in the morning and evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only message the members was supposed to get is a reminder to start the practice and Maithree Bhavana for 10 minutes at the end of the session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also joined to recommence vipassana meditation which I practiced for a while and stopped a few years back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything was good during the first few days until some members started sending messages about the corona and also total irrelevant videos etc to the WhatsApp group addresses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looked like people were trying to get closer socially\nwhich they cannot do physically<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of pursuing meditation practice to get rid of all defilements and unnecessary thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But people start to achieve using social media &nbsp;what\nthey cannot achieve by having physical close association&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be a good idea in case of a professional group to do so which can help work &#8211; from &#8211; home concept<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for a meditation group, this may not be the best practice\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media messages will be flying all over the cosmos like the Coronavirus which may make people sick due at a hitherto unknown Extraterrestial invisible virus\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <br> CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br> Colombo <br> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0 We all are educated and warned over and over by authorities that a fair physical distance should be maintained at all times So a group has initiated a WhatsApp group to practice meditation remotely at home from 6 to 7 in the morning and evening. The only message the members was supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}