{"id":7736,"date":"2010-10-27T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2010-10-29T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T16:55:46","slug":"just-do-whats-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/10\/just-do-whats-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Do What&#8217;s To Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7737\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/142.jpg?resize=209%2C154\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/142.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/142.jpg?resize=96%2C71&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend visited a monastery in China, and came across a monk who told her<br \/>\nthat a couplet at a hall is invaluable. She copied it down and asked me to translate it.<br \/>\nHere it is:<\/p>\n<p><big><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u89c1\u4e86\u4fbf\u505a,\u505a\u4e86\u4fbf\u653e\u4e0b,\u4e86\u4e86\u6709\u4f55\u4e0d\u4e86<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\nWhen seeing what has to be done, just do it,<br \/>\nand thereafter let it go.<br \/>\nUnderstanding this clearly, what cannot be understood \/ ended?<\/span><br \/>\n<big><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n\u6167\u751f\u4e8e\u89c9,\u89c9\u751f\u4e8e\u81ea\u5728,\u751f\u751f\u8fd8\u662f\u65e0\u751f <\/span><\/big><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Wisdom arises from awakening,<br \/>\nand awakening arises from being at ease.<br \/>\nBirth (life) to \/ after birth (life), there is still no birth [as one becomes liberated].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or better still&#8230; on second thought&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Wisdom arising from awakening,<br \/>\nand awakening arising from being at ease.<br \/>\n(An) arising after (another) arising,<br \/>\nthere is still (ultimately) no arising.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend visited a monastery in China, and came across a monk who told her that a couplet at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[103,320,254,58],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-letting-go","tag-liberation","tag-responsibility","tag-wisdom","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","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=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}