{"id":11001,"date":"2012-01-16T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:26:39","slug":"struggle-to-live-to-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/01\/struggle-to-live-to-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggle To Live To Struggle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11002\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/11.jpg?resize=181%2C136\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/11.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/11.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not enough to merely struggle to live,<br \/>\nor we would live merely to struggle.<br \/>\nOur struggles should be for higher purposes,<br \/>\nwhich lead to the ultimate goal of True Happiness of one and all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stonepeace\" target=\"_blank\">Stonepeace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>B:<\/strong> Many years ago, I once asked a Buddhist friend, what is the purpose of life?<br \/>\nHe answered that it is to get out of life.<br \/>\nthe last part above made what he said more complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S:<\/strong> A friend used to say something similar, that because life is meaningless,<br \/>\nthe only meaningful thing to do is to get out of life.<br \/>\nBut this is only the \u81ea\u4e86\u6c49 (self-liberation) ideal. The above is the \u83e9\u63d0\u5fc3 (Bodhicitta: help liberate all) ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not enough to merely struggle to live, or we would live merely to struggle. Our struggles should be&#8230;<\/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":[45,258],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-stonepeace","tag-true-happiness","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","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=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}