{"id":2147,"date":"2009-05-11T23:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2009-05-12T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:47:01","slug":"my-countless-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/05\/my-countless-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My&#8217; Countless Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2148\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/18.jpg?resize=124%2C124\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Friend:\u00a0I read your recent article about \u2019small &amp; big cars\u2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/thedailyenlightenment-realisation\/message\/358\" target=\"_blank\"><span>http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/thedailyenlightenment-realisation\/message\/358<\/span><\/a>). Sometimes its \u2018difficult\u2019 to practise the Dharma. For example, I know I am able to afford branded cars but choose not to do so, because of past bad experiences with them. Yet sometimes when I am out, I see someone drive a branded car next to me and I tend to wonder \u2018Why didn\u2019t I buy back that brand?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shi\u2019an: Er\u2026 this is very silly \u2013 because worldly comparisons are endless and thus pointless. As long as we have what we need, it\u2019s okay already. For me, \u2018my\u2019 fleets of cars run in most countries. When I raise a hand, one comes up to me. I have countless chauffeurs too. Sometimes, these cars are Merc haha. I call them \u2018cabs\u2019. Riding one when I need to is good enough. (E.g. I don\u2019t need to suffer from thinking \u2018If only I have a Merc or Lexus.\u2019) Why not try to see \u2018cars\u2019 in this light? I\u2019m never envious of those with their own cars because of the pollution they add to the climate in crisis. I support public transport.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend:\u00a0I read your recent article about \u2019small &amp; big cars\u2019 (http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/thedailyenlightenment-realisation\/message\/358). Sometimes its \u2018difficult\u2019 to practise the Dharma. For example,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,1],"tags":[138,398],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentalism","category-mix","tag-jealousy","tag-relativity","wpcat-168-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}