{"id":6300,"date":"2010-05-24T23:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2010-05-25T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:09:44","slug":"perfectionism-is-no-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/perfectionism-is-no-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectionism is No Fault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/158.jpg?resize=76%2C118\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/158.jpg?w=76&amp;ssl=1 76w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/158.jpg?resize=62%2C96&amp;ssl=1 62w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bizarre when some Buddhists see  ethical perfectionism as a fault. It\u2019s not that all are perfectionistic  out of attachment for ourselves, but that our ethics do need to be perfected as part  of the path towards spiritual perfection, to better protect other beings. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Why else is there a perfection  (paramita) called \u2018moral conduct\u2019? It is \u2018imperfectionism\u2019, or the  tendency to settle for imperfection, due to lack of discipline, that is  the real fault.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s bizarre when some Buddhists see ethical perfectionism as a fault. It\u2019s not that all are perfectionistic out of attachment&#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":[495,385,455],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-discipline","tag-morality","tag-perfection","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","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=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}