{"id":1248,"date":"2009-02-17T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2009-07-09T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T08:19:45","slug":"self-spellbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/02\/self-spellbound\/","title":{"rendered":"Self : Spellbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/17.jpg?resize=85%2C127\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"127\" \/><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;Superman: Camelot Falls&#8217; by Kurt Busiek, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Superman resists a spell by repeating a &#8216;mantra&#8217; (taught by J&#8217;onn Jones) that tries to overpower his will &#8211; &#8216;I know who I am. I know where I am. I think for myself.&#8217;<\/span> To that, illusory avalanche rocks become more solid and resistible, as he pushes them aside, &#8216;crumbling&#8217; the magic. This is interesting because this scene seems to exemplify the deeply-rooted Western cultural mindset of self-assertion for solidity and control.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If Superman was a Buddhist, he would counter the spell by dissolving his illusory solid sense of self, instead of fortifying it.<\/span> If he meditates to be one with the truth of the flux of all mind and matter, he would be free of the equally illusory obstacles that are also mind-made and mind-sustained. His self is not unlike the rocks &#8211; empty of substantiality. Being sold to the idea of self as something substantial is the &#8216;real&#8217; existential evil spell to break!<\/p>\n<p>[ad#camelotfallsv2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Superman: Camelot Falls&#8217; by Kurt Busiek, Superman resists a spell by repeating a &#8216;mantra&#8217; (taught by J&#8217;onn Jones) that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[48,46,177,33,199],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-anatta","tag-emptiness","tag-mantra","tag-meditation","tag-self","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}