{"id":24403,"date":"2020-08-26T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=24403"},"modified":"2022-02-10T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:14:44","slug":"amla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2020\/08\/amla\/","title":{"rendered":"Amla"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure><\/figure>\r\n<figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/figure>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"239\" class=\"wp-image-24404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/am.jpg?resize=500%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/am.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/am.jpg?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/am.jpg?resize=96%2C46&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Surangama Sutra, it says that Aniruddha, the Arhat greatest with heavenly vision sees our section of the world system (i.e. Earth in the Milky Way) to be like an Amla fruit in his palm. (Well, Amla fruits are from India.)\u300a\u695e\u4e25\u7ecf\u300b\u4e91\uff0c&#8217;\u963f\u90a3\u5f8b\u89c1\u960e\u6d6e\u63d0\u5982\u89c6\u638c\u4e2d\u5eb5\u6469\u7f57\u679c&#8217;<br \/><br \/>This means he sees it completely. Some take this to refer to describing our world as round, which Amla is very much so; as in this world not being a flat earth.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>It also reminds me of the follow last scene in the first MIB movie, with giant aliens playing marbles with world systems:<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AJOVUF-HaDw?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like Sun Wukong could not escape from the Buddha&#8217;s palm, we can&#8217;t even escape from an Arhat&#8217;s palm!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the Surangama Sutra, it says that Aniruddha, the Arhat greatest with heavenly vision sees our section of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-24403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix","tag-perception","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403","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=24403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}