{"id":11058,"date":"2012-01-30T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2012-01-30T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T10:16:16","slug":"the-best-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/01\/the-best-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11059\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/929.jpg?resize=150%2C157\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/929.jpg?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/929.jpg?resize=92%2C96&amp;ssl=1 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best teachers<br \/>\nmust eventually teach<br \/>\nultimate Compassion and Wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage perfect Compassion,<br \/>\nthey must eventually advocate veganism, which is not just a way of consumption,<br \/>\nbut a way of life, of being helpful and harmless.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage perfect Wisdom,<br \/>\nthey must eventually advocate the Pure Land teachings,<br \/>\nas the most efficient path towards Buddhahood.<\/p>\n<p>The best examples of those<br \/>\nwho have done the above perfectly and continue doing so<br \/>\nare the great Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Pic<\/strong>: Infinite Knot \u2014 symbolic of the enlightened mind&#8217;s endless compassion and wisdom<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best teachers must eventually teach ultimate Compassion and Wisdom. To encourage perfect Compassion, they must eventually advocate veganism, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,121,57,41,520,156,58],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-bodhisattva","tag-buddha","tag-compassion","tag-pure-land","tag-teacher","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","tag-wisdom","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","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=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}