{"id":6904,"date":"2010-07-21T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2010-07-21T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:55:46","slug":"working-out-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/working-out-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Out Karma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/constantwanderlust.tumblr.com\/post\/130182645\/karma-seems-like-more-of-a-mobius-strip-figure\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6905\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/143.jpg?resize=93%2C130\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/143.jpg?w=93&amp;ssl=1 93w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/143.jpg?resize=69%2C96&amp;ssl=1 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Q: <\/strong>I was not\u00a0aware that the purpose of  life is to realise True Happiness (via enlightenment). I thought all along that our  purpose here is to work out our karma and to aspire to go to Pure Land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong> Actually, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">karma doesn&#8217;t really need  working out in terms of living it out totally (which is impossible,  since we keep creating new karma). We  just need to create the right conditions (which include creating  positive  karma via cultivating compassion and wisdom) to facilitate exit from  Samsara.<\/span> This postive karma helps to lessen the effects of past negative  karma too. Even going Pure Land is ultimately for attaining True  Happiness  after training there &#8211; for one and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I was not\u00a0aware that the purpose of life is to realise True Happiness (via enlightenment). I thought all along&#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":[57,139,41,258,58],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-karma","tag-pure-land","tag-true-happiness","tag-wisdom","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","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=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}