{"id":2296,"date":"2009-06-04T01:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2009-06-04T01:52:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:52:27","slug":"our-dearest-cosmic-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/06\/our-dearest-cosmic-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Dearest Cosmic Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/12.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Whoever you are, you were my&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\ndearest mother<br \/>\ndearest father\u00a0<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0brother<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0sister\u00a0<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0son\u00a0<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0daughter<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Whoever we are, we are one another&#8217;s&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\ndearest\u00a0mother sentient beings<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0father sentient beings<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0brother sentient beings<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0sister sentient beings<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0son sentient beings<br \/>\ndearest\u00a0daughter sentient beings<span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This is why, from Chapter Eight of the Lankavatara Sutra: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Blessed One [Buddha] said this to him: For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat; I will explain them: Mahatmati, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">in this long course of transmigration here, there is not one living being that, having assumed the form of a living being, has not been your mother, or father, or brother, or sister, or son, or daughter, or the one or the other, in various degrees of kinship<\/span>; and when acquiring another form of life may live as a beast, as a domestic animal, as a bird, or as a womb-born, or as something standing in some relationship to you; [this being so] how can the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva who desires to approach all living beings as if they were himself and to practise the Buddha-truths, eat the flesh of any living being that is of the same nature as himself?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever you are, you were my&#8230; dearest mother dearest father\u00a0 dearest\u00a0brother dearest\u00a0sister\u00a0 dearest\u00a0son\u00a0 dearest\u00a0daughter Whoever we are, we are one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74],"tags":[57,106,156],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","category-veganism","tag-compassion","tag-rebirth","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","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=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}