{"id":10568,"date":"2011-11-14T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:10:17","slug":"love-someone-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/love-someone-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Someone Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/920.jpg?resize=134%2C135\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/920.jpg?w=224&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/920.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We imagine we would perfectly love someone perfect to us,<br \/>\nbut if someone truly perfect like the Buddha is before us,<br \/>\ncan we imagine loving the Buddha the same way?<\/p>\n<p>If we cannot,<br \/>\nit means we don&#8217;t really love the perfect,<br \/>\nand\/or the way we love is imperfect.<\/p>\n<p>We imagine we would love someone perfect to us,<br \/>\nbut if so, we would love more to be like the Buddha,<br \/>\nthan we love to remain unenlightened, to love imperfectly.<\/p>\n<p>While the enlightened with perfect love<br \/>\nlove the imperfect perfectly,<br \/>\nwe the unenlightened love the perfect and imperfect imperfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We imagine we would perfectly love someone perfect to us, but if someone truly perfect like the Buddha is before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-true-love","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","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=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}