{"id":2217,"date":"2009-05-25T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2009-07-09T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T07:22:59","slug":"when-a-sacrifice-isnt-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/05\/when-a-sacrifice-isnt-one\/","title":{"rendered":"When A Sacrifice Isn&#8217;t One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/120-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In &#8216;Cairo&#8217; by G. Willow Wilson &amp; M.K. Perker:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asaad: How much is too much to sacrifice? For someone you love?&#8230;<br \/>\nYanni: I think there aren&#8217;t any sacrifices. There are only choices. I think if you give something up for someone, it won&#8217;t feel like a sacrifice. It&#8217;ll feel like the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Bodhisattvas don&#8217;t sacrifice for any being,*\u00a0<br \/>\neven when we feel that they sacrifice for all.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The best sacrifice\u00a0sacrifices\u00a0<br \/>\nthe notion of sacrifice.&#8217;**\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Stonepeace<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>* Because they are neither fixated on the notion of sacrifice,<br \/>\nnor the notion they there are any sacrificers, the sacrificed or ones sacrificed for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>** To sacrifice the notion of sacrifice is to sacrifice<br \/>\nthe fundamental delusion that there are &#8216;selves&#8217; within or without.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=moonbuddblogc-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1401217346&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Cairo&#8217; by G. Willow Wilson &amp; M.K. Perker: Asaad: How much is too much to sacrifice? For someone you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,44],"tags":[223,160],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-quotes","tag-bodhisattva","tag-sacrifice","wpcat-241-id","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}