{"id":5449,"date":"2010-03-16T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:37:42","slug":"feel-at-home-in-samsara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/feel-at-home-in-samsara\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel at Home in Samsara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5451\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/135.jpg?resize=106%2C106\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/135.jpg?w=106&amp;ssl=1 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/135.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><strong><br \/>\nA Tit for a Tat (117)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit: <\/span>I don&#8217;t feel that I belong!<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat: <\/span>Belong where?<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTit: <\/span>Here &#8211; in Samsara<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat: <\/span>That&#8217;s good!<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTit: <\/span>How so?<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat: <\/span>If you feel right at home, how are you going to break free from Samsara?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit: <\/span>But aren&#8217;t Bodhisattvas supposed to feel at ease in Samsara?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tat: <\/span>But are you a Bodhisattva&#8230; yet?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit: <\/span>So am I supposed to feel at home here or not, if I want to be a Bodhisattva?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tat: <\/span>A Bodhisattva-wannabe trains to feel at home everywhere &#8211; from hell to Pureland!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit: <\/span>Then why should I break free from Samsara?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tat: <\/span>Samsara is the samsaric [greed, hate, delusion] in your mind &#8211; it&#8217;s not really a place!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Next aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/like-c-s-i\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/like-c-s-i<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Previous     aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/who-is-attached\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/who-is-attached<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (117) Tit: I don&#8217;t feel that I belong! Tat: Belong where? Tit: Here &#8211; in&#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":[223,242,41,105],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-bodhisattva","tag-hell","tag-pure-land","tag-samsara","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}