{"id":2445,"date":"2009-06-16T00:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2009-06-16T00:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:08:33","slug":"create-the-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/06\/create-the-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Create the Conditions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2446\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/118.jpg?resize=222%2C230\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend said, &#8220;I think I might have found the reason why Buddhism can&#8217;t spread as far and wide &amp; as fast as it could. A &#8216;Buddhist&#8217; told me one must wait for the right (karmic) conditions (to happen) to do something. But if everyone waits for everything, nothing would really happen (unless conditions fall into place naturally &#8211; which might take a long time). I think I can be a catalyst to the situation &#8211; by trying to create the right conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some just let conditions happen to their lives.<br \/>\nSome wait for conditions to change their lives.<br \/>\nSome create conditions to change their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The first are quitters, thoroughly unwise.<br \/>\nThe second are waiters, slightly more wise.<br \/>\nThe third are winners, the ones most wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend said, &#8220;I think I might have found the reason why Buddhism can&#8217;t spread as far and wide &amp;&#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],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}