{"id":11657,"date":"2012-05-09T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2012-05-09T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:29:14","slug":"guidance-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/05\/guidance-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120.jpg?resize=154%2C192\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120.jpg?w=193&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120.jpg?resize=77%2C96&amp;ssl=1 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice to a Dharma student:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t stick to a proper practice group with continual learning and guidance,\u00a0these problems (which you just faced) of encountering deviated teachings via your random exploration are likely to recur.\u00a0This is a reason why the Buddha clearly taught that spiritual friendship is the WHOLE of the path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice to a Dharma student: If you don&#8217;t stick to a proper practice group with continual learning and guidance,\u00a0these problems&#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":[528,520],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-student","tag-teacher","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","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=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}