{"id":23171,"date":"2019-05-12T22:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23171"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:28:42","slug":"death-reflections-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/05\/death-reflections-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Reflections #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23172 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/howtodie.png?resize=317%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/howtodie.png?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/howtodie.png?resize=63%2C96&amp;ssl=1 63w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/howtodie.png?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><br \/>\nFrom:<\/strong> &#8216;How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> [O]ne must rehearse for death throughout one&#8217;s life &#8211;&nbsp;for life, properly understood, is really only a journey toward death, we are dying every day,&nbsp;from the day we are born. (Introduction)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong> Practise letting go of everything worldly at least once daily in this way:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2019\/03\/how-to-have-thought-of-being-reborn-in-pure-land\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2019\/03\/how-to-have-thought-of-being-reborn-in-pure-land<\/a>&nbsp;Life then is understood as truly but a journey towards the best rebirth, day by day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: &#8216;How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[65,106],"class_list":["post-23171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-death","tag-rebirth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}