{"id":7755,"date":"2010-10-27T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2010-10-27T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:26:19","slug":"the-need-for-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/10\/the-need-for-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7757\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/146.jpg?resize=104%2C103\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/146.jpg?w=116&amp;ssl=1 116w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/146.jpg?resize=96%2C94&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If a &#8216;Buddhist&#8217; teacher does evil,<br \/>\ndespite knowing it is evil,<br \/>\none probably does not really believe in karma.<\/p>\n<p>If one probably does not believe in karma,<br \/>\nhow can others learn from one,<br \/>\nwhen even one&#8217;s basic morality is unsound?<\/p>\n<p>If a &#8216;Buddhist&#8217; teacher does evil (that affected many),<br \/>\nand really knows it is evil,<br \/>\none should really and openly repent.<\/p>\n<p>If one does such evil,<br \/>\nand does not openly repent,<br \/>\nhow can others believe one is any good as a teacher?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">(The above applies to non-teachers too)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a &#8216;Buddhist&#8217; teacher does evil, despite knowing it is evil, one probably does not really believe in karma. If&#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":[198,139,385,64,520],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-evil","tag-karma","tag-morality","tag-repentance","tag-teacher","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}