{"id":501,"date":"2008-12-30T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=501"},"modified":"2008-12-30T00:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:55:26","slug":"choice-help-or-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/choice-help-or-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice : Help or Harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-502\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/17.jpg?resize=150%2C74\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"74\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are invulnerable to harm,<br \/>\nseemingly able to live forever,<br \/>\nwhat would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Would you become a great villain [e.g. Octopus]<br \/>\nwho goes all out exploit and harm others?<br \/>\nSince there are no apparent consequences?<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate harm has to be the harming of others &#8211;<br \/>\nthat which does not lead others or oneself to lasting happiness,<br \/>\nthat which leads to unhappiness of others and oneself.<\/p>\n<p>Would you become a great hero [e.g. The Spirit]<br \/>\nwho sticks one&#8217;s neck out to help others?<br \/>\nBut how much can you help the countless vulnerable and mortal?<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate help has to be the giving of the Dharma &#8211;<br \/>\nthat which leads to true invulnerability from all suffering,<br \/>\nthat which leads to true immortality of timeless Nirvana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are invulnerable to harm, seemingly able to live forever, what would you do? Would you become a great&#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":[61,212],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-happiness","tag-nirvana","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}