{"id":8089,"date":"2010-11-29T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2010-11-29T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:21:36","slug":"dream-like-but-not-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/dream-like-but-not-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream-like But Not A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/154.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8090\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/154.jpg?resize=241%2C209\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/154.jpg?w=241&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/154.jpg?resize=96%2C83&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between<br \/>\nan actual flower and a dream flower?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the only difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first is an actual flower<br \/>\nand the latter a dream flower.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>All conditioned dharmas are like dreams.<br \/>\nThe actual flower is dream-like,<br \/>\nthough not a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Both flowers are of emptiness:<br \/>\nthey are impermanent,<br \/>\nand lack substantiality (of self).<\/p>\n<p>We are dream-like beings<br \/>\nin a dream-like world<br \/>\ndoing dream-like things.<\/p>\n<p>To wake up<br \/>\nis to realise this,<br \/>\nto see the dream as a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, even in dreams,<br \/>\nthere are laws of nature,<br \/>\nthat are inescapable.<\/p>\n<p>There is a dream-like self,<br \/>\nwith dream-like responsibilities<br \/>\nand dream-like problems too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That&#8217;s the only difference&#8230; The first is an&#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":[48,47,331,46,254,92],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-anatta","tag-anicca","tag-dream","tag-emptiness","tag-responsibility","tag-suffering","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}