{"id":19290,"date":"2017-01-10T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=19290"},"modified":"2017-01-10T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:29:38","slug":"vegan-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2017\/01\/vegan-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19291\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/farm.jpg?resize=808%2C485\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/farm.jpg?w=808&amp;ssl=1 808w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/farm.jpg?resize=96%2C58&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/farm.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/farm.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Surangama Sutra taught that Bodhisattvas do not even bear to tread upon grass (to prevent trampling on plants which shelter insects). But what about Chinese monks who do farming?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It might seem like a conflict, but they are supposed to do some chanting to invite insects to move away before farming. They should also&nbsp;move about more mindfully, watching where they tread, though there might be some casualties? Also, better that more mindful people farm than the less mindful farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Surangama Sutra taught that Bodhisattvas do not even bear to tread upon grass (to prevent trampling on plants which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-19290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290","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=19290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}