{"id":20033,"date":"2017-06-27T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=20033"},"modified":"2017-06-27T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:13:08","slug":"false-afflictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2017\/06\/false-afflictions\/","title":{"rendered":"False Afflictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20034 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao-762x1024.jpg?resize=762%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao.jpg?resize=762%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 762w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao.jpg?resize=71%2C96&amp;ssl=1 71w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao.jpg?resize=768%2C1032&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fannao.jpg?w=1072&amp;ssl=1 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><br \/>\nAs afflictions (\u70e6\u607c) from (physical) pain (\u75db) and (mental) suffering (\u82e6) arise from the three poisons (\u4e09\u6bd2) of transient greed (\u8d2a), hatred (\u55d4) and delusion (\u75f4), they are ultimately &#8216;unreal&#8217; (or empty), being impermanent (\u65e0\u5e38) and unsubstantial (\u65e0\u6211). Not realising this ultimate truth yet, we still have to deal with them with relative truths.<\/p>\n<p>(Catchy, these long book titles, though yet to read their contents. The longest title i came up with is &#8216;The Amazing &amp; Amusing Adventures Of&nbsp;<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/samandsara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\">#SamAndSara<\/a>: The Zen Of All Kinds Of Stuff&#8217;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As afflictions (\u70e6\u607c) from (physical) pain (\u75db) and (mental) suffering (\u82e6) arise from the three poisons (\u4e09\u6bd2) of transient greed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[612,54,92],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-afflictions","tag-pain","tag-suffering","wpcat-176-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","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=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}