{"id":10679,"date":"2011-11-29T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2011-11-29T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:06:30","slug":"the-finger-pointing-at-moon-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/the-finger-pointing-at-moon-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finger Pointing At Moon Analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Came across a scriptural quote for the moonpointer analogy:<\/p>\n

\u4fee\u591a\u7f57\u6559\uff0c\u5982\u6807\u6708\u6307\uff0c
\n\u82e5\u590d\u89c1\u6708\uff0c\u4e86\u77e5\u6240\u6807\u6bd5\u7adf\u975e\u6708\uff0c
\n\u4e00\u5207\u5982\u6765\u79cd\u79cd\u8a00\u8bf4\u5f00\u793a\u83e9\u8428\uff0c\u4ea6\u590d\u5982\u662f\u3002<\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

~ \u5706\u89c9\u7ecf<\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sutras’ teachings are like the finger that points to the moon.
\nIf the moon is repeatedly seen, one realises that the pointer is not the moon after all.
\nAll Tathagatas’ variety of spoken instructions for Bodhisattvas, are also like thus.<\/p>\n

– Sutra of Complete Enlightenment<\/p>\n

We don’t dare to call ourselves ‘moonpointers’. <\/span>
\nThis blog is called ‘moonpointer’ only to remind readers <\/span>
\nthat all words, including these, are just pointers trying to point to the moon beyond.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Came across a scriptural quote for the moonpointer analogy: \u4fee\u591a\u7f57\u6559\uff0c\u5982\u6807\u6708\u6307\uff0c \u82e5\u590d\u89c1\u6708\uff0c\u4e86\u77e5\u6240\u6807\u6bd5\u7adf\u975e\u6708\uff0c \u4e00\u5207\u5982\u6765\u79cd\u79cd\u8a00\u8bf4\u5f00\u793a\u83e9\u8428\uff0c\u4ea6\u590d\u5982\u662f\u3002 ~ \u5706\u89c9\u7ecf Sutras’ teachings are like the finger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-truth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","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=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}