{"id":1935,"date":"2009-04-21T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2009-04-21T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T15:21:44","slug":"one-thought-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/04\/one-thought-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thought At a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1936\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/22-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness that we can only have one thought at a time.<br \/>\nImagine if 84,000 thoughts assault you at the same time!<br \/>\nIt would be impossible to cultivate the mind, to train single-mindedness.<\/p>\n<p>Fickle the monkey mind is, jumping rapidly from one stray thought to another.<br \/>\nEven when our mind seems scattered or distracted, there is still only a thought at a time.<br \/>\nThank goodness the mind can be tamed, minded with mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>May my mindfulness from moment to moment be of Amitabha Buddha<br \/>\nMay this mindfulness bridge me across to meet him in Pureland.<br \/>\nMay this mindfulness of Buddha-ness eventually lead me to Buddhahood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness that we can only have one thought at a time. Imagine if 84,000 thoughts assault you at the&#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":[42,121,89,41],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-amitabha-buddha","tag-buddha","tag-mindfulness","tag-pure-land","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}