{"id":77,"date":"2008-12-03T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-12-17T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:48:18","slug":"essential-what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/essential-what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential : What Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/5.gif?resize=64%2C64\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those worldly think the spiritual are foolish<br \/>\nfor not focusing on, say, what there is to eat,<br \/>\non how to enjoy life.\u00a0<br \/>\nSome live to eat.<br \/>\nAre the most practical things the most obvious?<\/p>\n<p>Those spiritual think the worldly are foolish<br \/>\nfor not focusing on, say, why they should eat,<br \/>\non how to live life.\u00a0<br \/>\nSome eat to live.<br \/>\nAre the most practical things the most subtle?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Those who mistake the unessential to be essential<br \/>\nand the essential to be unessential,<br \/>\ndwelling in wrong thoughts,<br \/>\nnever arrive at the essential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Those who know the essential to be essential<br \/>\nand the unessential to be unessential,<br \/>\ndwelling in right thoughts,<br \/>\ndo arrive at the essential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; The Buddha (Dhammapada)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those worldly think the spiritual are foolish for not focusing on, say, what there is to eat, on how to&#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":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}