{"id":7046,"date":"2010-08-02T18:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T10:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2010-08-02T18:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T10:48:22","slug":"not-oversensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/08\/not-oversensitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Oversensitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7047\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16.jpg?resize=177%2C133\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16.jpg?resize=810%2C608&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><br \/>\nA friend had cultivated such powerful sensitivity<br \/>\nto the slightest relatively unhealthy foods,<br \/>\nthat we often take for granted,<br \/>\nthat a mere bite or two,<br \/>\nis enough to create side-effects like a mouth ulcer.<\/p>\n<p>For some time, I had wondered about the value of such sensitivity.<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it too self-punishing?<br \/>\nHis reply was that what he has is proper sensitivity,<br \/>\nwhile most of the others have lost it,<br \/>\nwhich is why we continue eating junk food without enough regard for health!<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t oversensitive but properly sensitive!<br \/>\nNow, that&#8217;s one great counter-intuitive lesson for me!<br \/>\nReminds me of how the unenlightened in Buddhism\u00e5<br \/>\nare often called &#8216;inverted sentient beings&#8217;,<br \/>\nwho have upside-down perceptions of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had cultivated such powerful sensitivity to the slightest relatively unhealthy foods, that we often take for granted, that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[111,107],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-perception","tag-truth","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","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=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}