{"id":6546,"date":"2010-06-14T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:50:19","slug":"agree-to-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/06\/agree-to-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"Agree to Disagree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/125.jpg?resize=98%2C127\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/125.jpg?w=98&amp;ssl=1 98w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/125.jpg?resize=74%2C96&amp;ssl=1 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Digha Nikaya (I,164), the Buddha taught,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;Those things about which there is no agreement,<br \/>\nlet us put aside.<br \/>\nThose things about which there is agreement,<br \/>\nlet the wise bring up, discuss and examine.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Does this mean we should<br \/>\nreligiously avoid differences to prevent conflict?<br \/>\nThe more the wise share the similarities openly,<br \/>\nthe more are they able to accept their differences frankly too?<\/p>\n<p>If we focus on our differences<br \/>\nin the beginning,<br \/>\nwill we ever reach common ground,<br \/>\nfor accepting one another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Digha Nikaya (I,164), the Buddha taught, &#8216;Those things about which there is no agreement, let us put aside. Those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-6546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-harmony","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546","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=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}