{"id":10022,"date":"2011-09-12T23:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:46:13","slug":"my-perfect-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/09\/my-perfect-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"My Perfect Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24978 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=1410%2C846&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1410\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?w=1410&amp;ssl=1 1410w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=1024%2C614&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=1222%2C733&amp;ssl=1 1222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=897%2C538&amp;ssl=1 897w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amida-gifu.jpg?resize=684%2C410&amp;ssl=1 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A &#8216;root guru&#8217; is<br \/>\nthe main teacher you learn from,<br \/>\nor the root teacher of your lineage of teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My root guru is<br \/>\nthe main teacher I learn from \u2014 the Buddha (Shakyamuni),<br \/>\nthe root teacher of the lineage of all teachers \u2014 the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My guru devotion is&nbsp;to Amitabha Buddha,<br \/>\nas taught about by my root guru,<br \/>\nvia Faith, Aspiration and Practice of mindfulnes of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A &#8216;root guru&#8217; is the main teacher you learn from, or the root teacher of your lineage of teachers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475,159],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix","tag-amituofo","tag-guilt","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}