{"id":18776,"date":"2016-08-25T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2016-08-25T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T07:49:13","slug":"spiritual-sigina-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2016\/08\/spiritual-sigina-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Sigina Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Screenshot from the movie \u2018\u519b\u4e2d\u4e50\u56ed\u2019 (Paradise In Service). It&#8217;s a scene of a kid being a Peeping Tom, grinning at some ladies washing up, while being scolded by them!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sigina-768x1024.jpg?resize=768%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sigina.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sigina.jpg?resize=72%2C96&amp;ssl=1 72w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sigina.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sigina.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The three subtitled words were pronounced as the infamous &#8216;SiGiNa&#8217; in Hokkien, a term I use frequently and playfully in class to describe others and ourselves when we are spiritually wayward, like immature kids yet to grow up to be more Buddha-ish.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a related Pure Land sutra excerpt that describes the very deluded to be kind of SiGiNa-ish, and how they can be less so! : <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2013\/10\/mindfulness-of-buddha-card\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2013\/10\/mindfulness-of-buddha-card&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1472195162655000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2CUSxqm29X6GyJL4LGTd_BPL1rw\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.c<wbr><\/wbr>om\/2013\/10\/mindfulness-of-budd<wbr><\/wbr>ha-card<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/zhidao.baidu.com\/question\/3334749.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/zhidao.baidu.com\/question\/3334749.html<\/a>, \u56dd (ji\u01cen\/n\u0101n): \u513f\u5973\/ \u5c0f\u5b69\u513f]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenshot from the movie \u2018\u519b\u4e2d\u4e50\u56ed\u2019 (Paradise In Service). It&#8217;s a scene of a kid being a Peeping Tom, grinning at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[89,41],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-mindfulness","tag-pure-land","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776","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=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}