{"id":6015,"date":"2010-05-05T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2010-05-05T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:14:44","slug":"what-if-enlightenment-is-impossible-or-retrogressible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/what-if-enlightenment-is-impossible-or-retrogressible\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Enlightenment is Impossible or Retrogressible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/11.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6016\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/11.gif?resize=151%2C203\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If enlightenment is impossible,<\/span><br \/>\nthe strife towards it is still meaningful<br \/>\nbecause it is the path to greater happiness,<br \/>\nas we can tell when we practise the Dharma.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If enlightenment is possible and we can backslide from it,<\/span><br \/>\nthe strife towards it is still meaningful<br \/>\nbecause it is the path to greater happiness,<br \/>\nas we can tell when we practise the Dharma.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Even if the happiness from enlightenment doesn&#8217;t last,<\/span><br \/>\nif it better to experience it cyclically,<br \/>\nthan not to at all,<br \/>\nthan to wallow in misery for all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If enlightenment is impossible, the strife towards it is still meaningful because it is the path to greater happiness, as&#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":[386,82,258],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-dharma","tag-enlightenment","tag-true-happiness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}