{"id":8171,"date":"2010-12-07T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T03:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2010-12-07T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T04:05:06","slug":"monastic-shamelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/12\/monastic-shamelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Monastic Shame(lessness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8172\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/13.jpeg?resize=111%2C122\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/13.jpeg?w=159&amp;ssl=1 159w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/13.jpeg?resize=87%2C96&amp;ssl=1 87w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the light of some debate over the questionable integrity of a so-called &#8216;monastic&#8217;,<br \/>\nshe said, &#8216;Sometimes, I feel so ashamed to be a Buddhist!&#8217;<br \/>\nNo need to feel shame as a lay Buddhist, I said,<br \/>\njust because a so-called &#8216;monastic&#8217; is shameless.<\/p>\n<p>Just take the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Aryasangha (Enlightened Sangha)<br \/>\nas supreme examples to emulate of.<br \/>\nShameless so-called &#8216;monastics&#8217; too<br \/>\nshould do the same too, and express deep and open repentance for their misgivings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of some debate over the questionable integrity of a so-called &#8216;monastic&#8217;, she said, &#8216;Sometimes, I feel so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,536],"class_list":["post-8171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-repentance","tag-shame","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}