{"id":6019,"date":"2010-05-05T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2010-05-05T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:22:08","slug":"adhering-to-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/adhering-to-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Adhering to Uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/19.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/19.jpg?resize=122%2C73\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/19.jpg?w=122&amp;ssl=1 122w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/19.jpg?resize=96%2C57&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I cut my hair short and wear brownish shirts and go to Dharma occasions or centres, people often ask if I\u2019m a monk. This is funny because monks wear robes and I don\u2019t. The colour I wear does not really closely resemble that of any monastic tradition too.<\/p>\n<p>It struck me that this common mistaking or uncertainty is partially due to monastics dressing non-uniformly. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If monastics of various traditions adhere strictly to their formal uniforms, cases of mistaken identity would not occur<\/span> \u2013 because all others who resemble them but are not dressed accordingly will simply be seen as non-monastics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A uniform loses its purpose if not uniformly adhered to. <\/span>Unfortunately, some monastics dress sloppily due to lack of discipline. Then again, as a disclaimer, maybe they are not real monastics \u2013 which is why they are dressed so. In short, I hope all monastics dress properly, and that fake monastics don\u2019t even try to mimic them, and remain sloppy, so that they can be easily differentiated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I cut my hair short and wear brownish shirts and go to Dharma occasions or centres, people often ask&#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":[495],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-discipline","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","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=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}