{"id":6400,"date":"2010-05-31T23:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:46:41","slug":"the-chicken-egg-came-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/the-chicken-egg-came-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken &#038; Egg Came Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/176.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6402\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/176.jpg?resize=91%2C123\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/176.jpg?w=91&amp;ssl=1 91w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/176.jpg?resize=71%2C96&amp;ssl=1 71w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which came first?<br \/>\nThe chicken or the egg?<\/p>\n<p>But the chicken is in the egg,<br \/>\nBut the egg is in the chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Without the chicken, there is no egg.<br \/>\nWithout the egg, there is no chicken.<\/p>\n<p>The chicken and egg are interdependent.<br \/>\nThe chicken and egg are not independent.<\/p>\n<p>Everything arises from many causes and conditions.<br \/>\nNothing arises from no cause or condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The above is inspired from \u2018Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way\u2019 by Thich Nhat Hanh:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Causes and conditions&#8217; (\u56e0\u7f18) and &#8216;dependent co-arising&#8217; carry a similar  meaning and are are at the heart of the Buddha&#8217;s teaching.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> &#8216;Causes&#8217;  refers to the seed or principle condition. &#8216;Conditions&#8217; refers to the  other necessary conditions that are not the principal ones.<\/span> In the Chinese character for &#8217;cause&#8217; (\u56e0), the word &#8216;great&#8217; is pictured  inside four walls. If something is to become great, it must break through  those boundaries. When you look at a mustard seed, it&#8217;s small; the  conditions aren&#8217;t there for it to be large. But when the mustard seed is  put into the earth and watered, it becomes a great plant. The conditions to bring the mustard seed to fruition are water, earth,  fertilizer, warmth, and so on. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Notice that the conditions are also  causes. But the primary cause, of course, is the seed itself. The  subsidiary causes are the conditions necessary to support the primary  cause to develop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which came first? The chicken or the egg? But the chicken is in the egg, But the egg is 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":[176],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-interdependence","wpcat-176-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","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=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}