{"id":7583,"date":"2010-10-04T21:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2010-10-04T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:09:21","slug":"to-help-or-not-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/10\/to-help-or-not-help\/","title":{"rendered":"To Help or Not Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7584\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/122.jpg?resize=163%2C152\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/122.jpg?w=233&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/122.jpg?resize=96%2C89&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Is helping my enemies the\u00a0right thing to do?<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> It is right, provided that it doesn\u2019t harm anyone, and if it  helps the ones helpers and the helped to increase in compassion and wisdom \u2013 directly or  indirectly. Helping your &#8216;enemies&#8217; might be the only way to make them no longer your &#8216;enemies&#8217;; but your friends instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If they take the help for granted, should we still help?<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> If our help does not help increase their compassion and wisdom  (including appreciation), our help could be not skilful enough. If not  helping means losing our compassion, it\u2019s not good. But if helping is for  getting appreciation, it\u2019s not true helping. If not helping helps them  to better appreciate past compassion taken for granted, it\u2019s good. Thereafter, we should continue helping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Is helping my enemies the\u00a0right thing to do? A: It is right, provided that it doesn\u2019t harm anyone, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[57,481,116,58],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-compassion","tag-enmity","tag-friendship","tag-wisdom","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}