{"id":11575,"date":"2012-05-02T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2012-05-02T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:43:22","slug":"literal-or-figurative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/05\/literal-or-figurative\/","title":{"rendered":"Literal Or Figurative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg?resize=226%2C109\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg?w=323&amp;ssl=1 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg?resize=96%2C46&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1.jpg?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Buddha speaks literally,<br \/>\nhe doesn&#8217;t say it is figurative.<br \/>\nThere is no two ways about it.<\/p>\n<p>When the Buddha speaks figuratively,<br \/>\nhe says it is figurative.<br \/>\nIt is not to be taken literally.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how scriptures are sometimes twisted<br \/>\nfrom their literal (or figurative) meanings<br \/>\nto assumed figurative (or literal) ones to suit personal preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Buddha speaks literally, he doesn&#8217;t say it is figurative. There is no two ways about it. When the&#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":[75,149,111],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-attachment","tag-meaning","tag-perception","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","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=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}