{"id":8194,"date":"2010-12-13T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2010-12-13T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:10:22","slug":"ask-the-right-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/12\/ask-the-right-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Right Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8195\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/119.jpg?resize=142%2C91\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/119.jpg?w=281&amp;ssl=1 281w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/119.jpg?resize=96%2C61&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mistake that many make<br \/>\nis to ask non-specialists questions<br \/>\nthat require specialised knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>E.g. Why ask a Theravada teacher<br \/>\nabout Mahayana teachings<br \/>\nif he is unlikely to know or practise them?<\/p>\n<p>Just as you won&#8217;t ask<br \/>\nan eye specialist about the heart,<br \/>\nwhy ask a heart specialist about the eye?<\/p>\n<p>A professional specialist will refer you<br \/>\nto another specialist if asked a question beyond one&#8217;s scope.<br \/>\nHe will not pretend to be the specialist that he is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mistake that many make is to ask non-specialists questions that require specialised knowledge. E.g. Why ask a Theravada teacher&#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":[520],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-teacher","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","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=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}