{"id":13408,"date":"2006-07-06T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2013-02-05T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:05:44","slug":"how-buddhists-can-destroy-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2006\/07\/how-buddhists-can-destroy-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Buddhists Can Destroy Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/544085_lion.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13410\" alt=\"544085_lion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/544085_lion.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/544085_lion.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/544085_lion.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf a [practising] Bodhisattva acts in such a manner [which harms other Buddhists for personal advantage], he is no different from a worm in a lion&#8217;s body, eating away at the lion&#8217;s flesh. This is not something a worm living outside the lion can do. Likewise, <b>only disciples of the Buddhas can bring down the Dharma \u2013 no externalist or demon can do so.<\/b><br \/>\n<i>\u2013 Brahma Net Sutra<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The lion is the fiercest of animals, and when he roars all the other beasts flee.<br \/>\nIn the same way, people who have taken the precepts are likened to a lion;<br \/>\nno other beings will bother them.<br \/>\nHowever, just as worms that live in the lion&#8217;s body dare to feed on the lion&#8217;s flesh,<br \/>\nso too, disciples within Buddhism can undermine the entire system.<br \/>\n<b>Buddhist disciples themselves are capable of destroying the Dharma,<br \/>\nmore so than the people outside Buddhism.<\/b><br \/>\n<i>\u2013 Master Yen-p&#8217;ei<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a [practising] Bodhisattva acts in such a manner [which harms other Buddhists for personal advantage], he is no different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-13408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix","tag-dharma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}