{"id":13891,"date":"2013-04-21T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2013-04-21T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:09:00","slug":"past-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2013\/04\/past-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13892\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/18.jpg?resize=249%2C202\" width=\"249\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/18.jpg?w=249&amp;ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/18.jpg?resize=96%2C78&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>I asked him why he doesn&#8217;t seem very concerned for the spiritual well-being of his parents. He replied that since we have been reborn so many times, we have all been one another&#8217;s parents at some point in the past, and that if so, he doesn&#8217;t see why he should be too particular about his present set of parents. It seems vaguely logical at first&#8230; but upon closer scrutiny, he isn&#8217;t very unconditionally and equanimously helpful to other beings either.<\/p>\n<p>And if one is not even very concerned about one&#8217;s present parents, who are the most clear and present parents now, can one truly care more about strangers, other &#8216;past parents&#8217;? Spiritual charity begins at home, unless there are obstacles at the moment, which we should strive to overcome too. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked him why he doesn&#8217;t seem very concerned for the spiritual well-being of his parents. He replied that since&#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":[129],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-equanimity","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","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=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}