{"id":7302,"date":"2010-09-17T00:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2010-09-17T00:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:08:49","slug":"buddhist-view-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/09\/buddhist-view-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist View of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/113.jpg?resize=134%2C118\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/113.jpg?w=192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/113.jpg?resize=96%2C84&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Someone attending an interfaith event on violence<br \/>\nemailed to as about the Buddhist perspective of the subject.<br \/>\nThis was my reply:<\/p>\n<p>There is much to say on this&#8230; which can be googled online.<br \/>\nSome short thoughts on violence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Violence does not bring peace but keeps it at bay.<\/span><br \/>\nTo handle the very violent who might otherwise harm many,<br \/>\nviolence should still be the last resort,<br \/>\nwhile we should do our best to understand and transform the violent.<br \/>\nAs the Buddha taught in the Dhammapada&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hatred can never be ceased by hatred.<br \/>\nHatred can only be ceased with love.<br \/>\nThis is an eternal law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, even if violence has to be unfortunately used,<br \/>\nit should not be with hatred, but with love,<br \/>\nfor the greater good of all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone attending an interfaith event on violence emailed to as about the Buddhist perspective of the subject. This was my&#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":[24,25,288,104],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-hatred","tag-love","tag-peace","tag-violence","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302","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=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}