{"id":7458,"date":"2010-09-29T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2010-09-29T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:25:20","slug":"towards-equanimous-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/09\/towards-equanimous-sobriety\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards Equanimous Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7459\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/135.jpg?resize=201%2C208\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/135.jpg?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/135.jpg?resize=93%2C96&amp;ssl=1 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bipolar student<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t sure he liked<br \/>\nbeing his more &#8216;sober&#8217; self.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he is<br \/>\nused to swinging<br \/>\nbetween highs and lows?<\/p>\n<p>I advised that<br \/>\nthere is no need<br \/>\nto cling to any self&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since there is no fixed self<br \/>\nthat stays high or low,<br \/>\nespecially in mundane way.<\/p>\n<p>Good to chant &#8216;Amituofo&#8217; more,<br \/>\nto tune to the restful equanimity<br \/>\nof our Buddha-nature, and connect to Amituofo&#8217;s blessings too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipolar student wasn&#8217;t sure he liked being his more &#8216;sober&#8217; self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs&#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":[42,75,443,126,129,199],"class_list":["post-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-amitabha-buddha","tag-attachment","tag-blessings","tag-buddha-nature","tag-equanimity","tag-self","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","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=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}