{"id":8008,"date":"2010-11-22T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2010-11-24T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:30:14","slug":"platos-pure-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/platos-pure-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato’s ‘Pure Land’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adorning glossy magazine covers
\nare photographs of faces
\nmostly photoshopped to ‘perfection’.<\/p>\n

Nothing new really,
\nfor our ancestors too
\nconceal their flaws on paintings.<\/p>\n

Nothing new really,
\nfor their descendants too
\nconceal their flaws by painting (on their faces with make-up).<\/p>\n

Hinting perhaps,
\nof how we prefer
\nPlato’s ‘imaginary’ world of idealised forms?<\/p>\n

Where are circles perfectly round?
\nWhere are lines perfectly straight?
\nWhere is beauty peerless beauty?<\/p>\n

I know where forms are truly ideal.
\nIt is Pure Land, the realm with ultimately refined forms.
\nIf this flawed world exists, then a flawless one even more!<\/p>\n

Student: <\/strong>Is Pure Land real?
\nMaster:<\/strong> Is this world [of delusions] real?
\nStudent: <\/strong>Yes.
\nMaster: <\/strong>Then Pure Land [the world without delusions] is even more real!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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