{"id":2236,"date":"2009-05-29T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2009-05-29T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:01:09","slug":"the-universe-as-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/05\/the-universe-as-a-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Works in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/122.jpg?resize=275%2C207\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"207\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">If there is an almighty perfect creator,<br \/>\nthe universe would be a perfect work of art.<br \/>\nIf the universe is not a perfect work of art,\u00a0<br \/>\nthere is no almighty perfect creator<\/span>. &#8211; Stonepeace<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Some see the universe as a completely perfect work of art,\u00a0but they are only looking at the goodness in life &#8211;\u00a0beautiful landscapes, beautiful people, beautiful stuff. This is but romanticising reality. What about the scenes of pain and suffering experienced by the weak and harmless in disasters, wars and crimes? Aren&#8217;t these parts of the picture of reality too? Buddhism, however, teaches that though the universe is filled with much Dukkha (suffering),\u00a0we can each become perfect artists, who perfect our lives with compassion and wisdom, and create perfect worlds (Purelands) for benefitting others. Instead of saying the universe is a perfect work of art, it is a work in progress, just as we are works in progress too.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If there is only one perfect [creator] God, there is no [such] God,<br \/>\nbecause a perfect God would [only] create perfect clones of oneself;<br \/>\nnot any forms of imperfection [that currently fill the world as we know].\u00a0<em>&#8211; Stonepeace<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is an almighty perfect creator, the universe would be a perfect work of art. If the universe is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,44],"tags":[49,244,41],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","category-quotes","tag-dukkha","tag-god","tag-pure-land","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}