{"id":780,"date":"2009-01-17T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=780"},"modified":"2009-01-17T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:14:30","slug":"criminals-potential-buddhas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/01\/criminals-potential-buddhas\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminals : Potential Buddhas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/17.jpg?resize=114%2C103\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"103\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">As inspired by the film <\/span>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhammabrothers.com\">The Dhamma Brothers<\/a><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8216; <span style=\"color: #800080;\">, here&#8217;s a simple poem,<br \/>\nin tribute to those who seek spiritual freedom within their physical prisons:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than just a killer&#8230;<br \/>\nMore than just a thief&#8230;<br \/>\nMore than just a liar&#8230;<br \/>\nMore that just a rapist&#8230;<br \/>\nMore than just a junkie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More than just convicts&#8230;<br \/>\nThey still have Buddha-nature.<br \/>\nThey still are potential Buddhas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>The crimes above are respectively linked to breaking the five precepts:<\/strong><br \/>\n1st Precept: To abstain from killing<br \/>\n2nd Precept: To abstain from stealing<br \/>\n3rd Precept: To abstain from sexual misconduct<br \/>\n4th Precept: To abstain from lying<br \/>\n5th Precept: To abstain from intoxicants<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As inspired by the film &#8216;The Dhamma Brothers&#8216; , here&#8217;s a simple poem, in tribute to those who seek spiritual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[121,126,277],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-buddha","tag-buddha-nature","tag-precepts","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}