{"id":4275,"date":"2009-11-23T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2009-11-23T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T04:50:06","slug":"how-to-clean-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/how-to-clean-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4276\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/133.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/133.jpg?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/133.jpg?resize=96%2C64&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nAn easy way to clean dirty potatoes<br \/>\nis to put them in a tub of water,<br \/>\nand jiggle them about,<br \/>\nsuch that they rub the dirt off one another.<\/p>\n<p>An easy way to purify defiled humans<br \/>\nis to cultivate the Dharma together via group practice,<br \/>\nsuch that they learn about themselves via interactions,<br \/>\nsuch that they rub the dirt off one another.<\/p>\n<p>Myself almost became a lone potato,<br \/>\nthat was so heavily caked with the dirt of delusion,<br \/>\nthat I wasn&#8217;t aware, that would had been hard to clean,<br \/>\nif I did not join a Dharma group in time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us are not spiritually advanced enough<br \/>\nto go on long solitary retreats yet.<br \/>\nMost of us need to be checked by one another,<br \/>\nin case we become Buddhists with warped thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to clean dirty potatoes is to put them in a tub of water, and jiggle them about,&#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":[246],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-reflection","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","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=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}