{"id":18328,"date":"2016-04-28T17:40:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T09:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2016-04-28T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T09:40:55","slug":"stonepeace-776-785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2016\/04\/stonepeace-776-785\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonepeace (776\u2013785)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-21.jpg?resize=236%2C291\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-21.jpg?w=236&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-21.jpg?resize=78%2C96&amp;ssl=1 78w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><br \/>\n[776]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The best teacher not only learns and shares the Dharma,<br \/>\nthe best teacher also embodies and expresses the Dharma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[777]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Personal enlightenment with compassion<br \/>\nfacilitates the collective enlightenment of all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[778]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One\u2019s supernormal powers are only<br \/>\nas super in positive effect<br \/>\nas one is super in compassion and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[779]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings have free physical lives<br \/>\nfor freely furthering their spiritual lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[780]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As you are shaped by your intentional actions,<br \/>\nyou are also what, who, why<br \/>\nand how you eat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[781]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since Dharma practice ultimately is to benefit all,<br \/>\nantagonising some with \u2018Dharma practice\u2019 is unbeneficial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[782]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If the Parinirvana of Buddhas is<br \/>\nthe end of re-manifestations to help more beings,<br \/>\nthey would not be ones with perfect compassion\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Parinirvana is just the end of physical imperfections;<br \/>\nit is not the end of spiritual perfections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[783]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A spiritual retreat is<br \/>\nto retreat from external distractions,<br \/>\nto retreat towards internal Buddha-nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[784]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meaningful symbols,<br \/>\nthough powerful,<br \/>\nare never as powerful as that symbolised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[785]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who you are mindful of (e.g. Amitabha Buddha),<br \/>\nyou will eventually be with (e.g. in Pure Land),<br \/>\nand become (i.e. a Buddha) too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[776] The best teacher not only learns and shares the Dharma, the best teacher also embodies and expresses the Dharma&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328","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=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}