{"id":4440,"date":"2015-01-22T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2015-01-22T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T22:14:39","slug":"rugby-legend-became-buddhist-reading-quantum-physics-jonny-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/rugby-legend-became-buddhist-reading-quantum-physics-jonny-wilkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"The rugby legend who became a Buddhist by reading quantum physics, Jonny Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the need for inner peace as a prerequisite for true outer peace. If we are to have deep and impartial compassion for those we wish to help &#8211; and this is the only healthy basis for social action &#8211; then it can only come from within<\/p>\n<p>Dialogue with the west, over the last 20 years or so, a number of western scientists and thinkers have entered into dialogue with Bhudist masters and scholars&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gggyu.jpg\" alt=\"gggyu\" width=\"302\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-80334\" \/><br \/>\nThe rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson hit world headlines due to his 2003 World Cup final heroics, when his drop goal in the last minute of extra-time delivered the trophy to England. He made another sensation when he told the London Times that he became a Buddhist by reading Quantum Physics.<br \/>\nWilkinson, a millionaire by then  has revealed that he has found inner peace through Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>The former England Rugby star,  who became a national hero after the world cup victory, said Buddhism  had helped him overcome a fear of failure which was ruining his life ironically due to the victory&#8230;. the big deal i think is peace &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddhistchannel.tv\/index.php?id=9,10938,0,0,1,0#.VMFbi9KsWSo\">http:\/\/www.buddhistchannel.tv\/index.php?id=9,10938,0,0,1,0#.VMFbi9KsWSo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"510\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pP-nYKjrY1A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ySdNSGZyVc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the need for inner peace as a prerequisite for true outer peace. If we are to have deep and impartial compassion for those we wish to help &#8211; and this is the only healthy basis for social action &#8211; then it can only come from within Dialogue with the west, over the last 20 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1940,1941,1938,26,449,1939],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-became","tag-buddhist","tag-legend","tag-rugby","tag-the","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}