{"id":20413,"date":"2017-09-04T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=20413"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:34:54","slug":"stonepeace-876-885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2017\/09\/stonepeace-876-885\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonepeace (876-885)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/doubt-683x1024.jpg?resize=683%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/doubt.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/doubt.jpg?resize=64%2C96&amp;ssl=1 64w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/doubt.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/doubt.jpg?w=735&amp;ssl=1 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><br \/>\n[876]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since even the Buddha<br \/>\ndiscourages blind faith in him,<br \/>\nnever ever encourage blind faith<br \/>\nin any Buddhist teacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[877]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When long available opportunities<br \/>\nto apologise and clarify<br \/>\nare not taken up,<br \/>\nall benefits of doubt expire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[878]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With reasonable replies amiss&nbsp;<br \/>\non many pressing moral issues,&nbsp;<br \/>\nit is reasonable to think&nbsp;<br \/>\nthere is much evil hidden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[879]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is unreasonable&nbsp;<br \/>\nto not give reasonable answers&nbsp;<br \/>\nto reasonable questions asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[880]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Those who are &#8216;unquestionable&#8217;<br \/>\nare those who are questionable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[881]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the Buddha urged questioning,&nbsp;<br \/>\nto analyse and realise his teachings,&nbsp;<br \/>\nnever learn from the &#8216;unquestionable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[882]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To question teachings and teachers&nbsp;<br \/>\nis NOT to slander the Dharma or Sangha.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThose who say it is slander those who ask.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[883]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Always question&nbsp;<br \/>\nwhy you are told to<br \/>\nnever question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[884]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doubt those who do not<br \/>\ndoubt the doubtful.<br \/>\nQuestion those who do not<br \/>\nquestion the questionable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[885]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Always systematically analyse systems.<br \/>\nNever automatically follow systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[876] Since even the Buddha discourages blind faith in him, never ever encourage blind faith in any Buddhist teacher. [877]&#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":[45],"class_list":["post-20413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-stonepeace","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","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=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}