{"id":3665,"date":"2009-09-07T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:41:44","slug":"samsaras-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/samsaras-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsara&#8217;s Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/115.jpg?resize=156%2C156\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>\nTV drama serials (or soap operas), creative as they can be in their story arcs, are at times predictable &#8211; in the sense that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">when, say, a many-membered family seems to be very happy, we know that something unhappy is going to happen to at least one of them<\/span>, which gradually affects them all. At some point, we might feel sick and tired of the ups and downs, and opt out of watching further.<\/p>\n<p>However, while what depicted might seem larger than life or highly dramatised, it is still true to life &#8211; in the sense that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the ups and downs in life will indeed alternate, one after another, unceasingly<\/span>. In fact, ups and downs will alternate not just within this life, but from life to life too&#8230; due to the nature of all experiences being impermanent and unsubstantial&#8230; till the drama that is Samsara ends, when we realise the truly happily ever after that is Nirvana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV drama serials (or soap operas), creative as they can be in their story arcs, are at times predictable &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[47,105],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-anicca","tag-samsara","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}