{"id":4071,"date":"2009-10-26T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T05:09:07","slug":"no-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/no-giving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"No Giving Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4072\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/115.jpg?resize=100%2C136\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Sorry, I&#8217;ve done my best to help her. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;ve no more energy. I give up!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> No worries. Take a break. It&#8217;s important to not leave the friendship bitter &#8211; or there would be negative karmic affinity formed, that creates more problems in time to come. When conditions are ripe, we can still help in ways we can. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In living Bodhicitta (the aspiration to help all, including ourselves, advance towards Buddhahood), there&#8217;s no giving up. But we can rest when needed!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Sorry, I&#8217;ve done my best to help her. I&#8217;ve no more energy. I give up! Answer: No worries. Take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[43,116],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-bodhicitta","tag-friendship","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}