{"id":3670,"date":"2009-09-08T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T03:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2009-09-08T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T03:52:40","slug":"thanks-from-a-fellow-student-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/thanks-from-a-fellow-student-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks from a Fellow Student (Me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3669\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2.jpg?resize=151%2C202\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sharing the Dharma in person is great spiritual training for me. Through it, I learn to be more generous, patient and caring. Beyond sharing by writing Dharma articles online, I get the chance to connect to various kinds of fellow Buddhists in real life, to practise compassion and wisdom, to go beyond words. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sharing the Dharma regularly keeps me on my toes too, reminding me that I am also a student, who has to keep learning and practising, so that I can keep sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A happy belated Teacher\u2019s Day too, to our Original Teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha too, who introduced the precious Pureland teachings to us. The above is a thank you card from Dharma brothers and sisters of the Pureland Practice Fellowship (<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/namoamituofo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/namoamituofo<\/a>).<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Thank you for your encouragement. Without your support, I would not be able to share and the fellowship would not exist!<\/span> May we continue to encourage one another to grow spiritually, till we reach Pureland. Amituofo!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Buddhadharma is so joyous to behold,<br \/>\nthat it should not just be learnt joyously,<br \/>\nthat it should be shared joyously too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/117.jpg?resize=202%2C151\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the Dharma in person is great spiritual training for me. Through it, I learn to be more generous, patient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[155,41],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photojournal","tag-gratitude","tag-pure-land","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}