{"id":12799,"date":"2012-11-21T21:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=12799"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:39:22","slug":"super-short-story-129-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/11\/super-short-story-129-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Short Story (129): Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12800\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/129.jpg?resize=205%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/129.jpg?w=132&amp;ssl=1 132w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/129.jpg?resize=96%2C70&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Short Story (129): Perfection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the vast reaches of the universe,<br \/>\nhe imagines there ought to be<br \/>\nanother version of himself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Someone similar to him,<br \/>\nbut not exactly so,<br \/>\nwho is very likely to exist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Someone who is at least<br \/>\nslightly a better person,<br \/>\nwhom he can surely emulate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Someone who also imagines<br \/>\nthere is a better version of himself,<br \/>\nad infinitum&#8230; until there is a perfect version.<\/p>\n<p>He imagines that if he keeps imagining so,<br \/>\nhe will always become a better person,<br \/>\neven if by taking baby steps.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(In Buddhism, there are many accounts of Bodhisattvas <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">whose paths to enlightenment<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">are\u00a0archetypically similar,<br \/>\nwho were inspired by Buddhas to perfect themselves.<br \/>\nAs there is only one state of perfect Buddhahood,<br \/>\nit is as if Buddhas are spiritually &#8216;cloned&#8217; into being!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Short Story (129): Perfection In the vast reaches of the universe, he imagines there ought to be another version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-perfection","wpcat-606-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","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=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}