{"id":25262,"date":"2022-06-13T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=25262"},"modified":"2022-06-13T00:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:27:41","slug":"still-breaking-precepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2022\/06\/still-breaking-precepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Breaking Precepts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=768%2C1085&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=897%2C1267&amp;ssl=1 897w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?resize=684%2C966&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bugs.jpg?w=906&amp;ssl=1 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Still Breaking Precepts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are a Buddhist, who keeps breaking the precepts knowingly, with no intention to stop, does that make you a true Buddhist? Well, practice of upholding the precepts is but the first aspect of Buddhist practice. We are not perfect now and certainly cannot be perfect straightaway &#8211; but we must strive towards perfection continually. This is what true Buddhists should so. Otherwise, we are not just &#8216;bad Buddhists&#8217;, but bad persons too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still Breaking Precepts? If you are a Buddhist, who keeps breaking the precepts knowingly, with no intention to stop, does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[469,415,277],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics","tag-commitment","tag-diligence","tag-precepts","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262","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=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}