{"id":7792,"date":"2010-11-01T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2010-11-01T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:56:05","slug":"the-hidden-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/the-hidden-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7793\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/15.jpg?resize=127%2C143\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/15.jpg?w=211&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/15.jpg?resize=85%2C96&amp;ssl=1 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is a passage I helped to translate to Chinese for Buddhist Library&#8217;s newsletter:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Brightly shining, luminous is this mind, but it is defiled by the stains which visit it.<br \/>\nThis the unlearned common folk do not really understand; so for them there is no development of the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Brightly shining, luminous is this mind, and it is freed of the stains which visit it.<br \/>\nThis the learned noble disciples really understand; so for them there is development of the mind.<\/span> &#8211; Anguttura Nikaya (The Buddha)<\/p>\n<p><big><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u660e\u4eae\u7684\uff0c\u53d1\u5149\u7684\uff0c\u662f\u8fd9\u4e2a\u5fc3\uff0c\u4f46\u5b83\u7531\u5916\u6765\u4e4b\u6c61\u57a2\u73b7\u6c61\u3002<br \/>\n\u8fd9\uff0c\u65e0\u667a\u4e4b\u4e00\u822c\u4eba\u4e0d\u771f\u6b63\u4e86\u89e3\uff0c\u6240\u4ee5\u4ed6\u4eec\u672a\u5fc3\u51c0\u5316\u5fc3\u3002<\/span><\/big><\/p>\n<p><big><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u660e\u4eae\u7684\uff0c\u53d1\u5149\u7684\uff0c\u662f\u8fd9\u4e2a\u5fc3\uff0c\u56e0\u5b83\u65e0\u5916\u6765\u4e4b\u6c61\u57a2\u3002<br \/>\n\u8fd9\uff0c\u6709\u667a\u4e4b\u5723\u5f1f\u5b50\u771f\u6b63\u4e86\u89e3\uff0c\u6240\u4ee5\u4ed6\u4eec\u80fd\u51c0\u5316\u5fc3\u3002<\/span>-\u300a\u589e\u652f\u90e8\u300b\u4f5b\u9640<\/big><\/p>\n<p>I like to use the full shining moon to represent the unseen luminous mind,<br \/>\nwhich is analogous to our innate Buddha-nature when uncovered,<br \/>\nthat is always shining, albeit shielded by the dark clouds of defilements most of the time.<br \/>\nTo become enlightened is to clear these clouds once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a passage I helped to translate to Chinese for Buddhist Library&#8217;s newsletter: Brightly shining, luminous is this mind,&#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":[126],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-buddha-nature","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}