{"id":10338,"date":"2011-10-18T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T05:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10338"},"modified":"2011-10-18T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T05:05:59","slug":"converting-the-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/10\/converting-the-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting the Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10339\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/818.jpg?resize=102%2C102\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/818.jpg?w=102&amp;ssl=1 102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/818.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend forwarded to me an email from a Buddhist teacher,\u00a0who advocated that evangelists should simply be ignored. I replied so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not compassionate to always ignore evangelists,<br \/>\nespecially if they speak to us out of compassion, albeit misplaced.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve spoken to one before, who tried to convert me&#8230;<br \/>\nand he is now a happy Buddhist, partly due to our detailed conversations.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, if we do not share the Dharma with them with compassion (if they are open of course), who will? The Buddha too had dialogues with many from various belief systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend forwarded to me an email from a Buddhist teacher,\u00a0who advocated that evangelists should simply be ignored. I replied&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,244],"class_list":["post-10338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-god","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}