{"id":848,"date":"2009-01-21T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T08:09:33","slug":"admonition-as-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/01\/admonition-as-greeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Admonition : As Greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em style=\"background-color: #ffff33;\"><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/112-300x154.jpg?resize=300%2C154\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><br \/>\nAs an unconventional Chinese New Year greeting, above is a simple calligraphic piece of &#8216;Samantabhadra Bodhisattva&#8217;s Admonition for the Masses&#8217; (<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u666e\u8d24\u83e9\u8428\u8b66\u4f17\u5048) <\/span>with a new translation below. I hope the strokes highlight a sense of fragility, transience, urgency, focus and determination, which are qualities mentioned in the verse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u662f\u65e5\u5df2\u8fc7\uff0c\u547d\u4ea6\u968f\u51cf\uff1b<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n\u5982\u5c11\u6c34\u9c7c\uff0c\u65af\u6709\u4f55\u4e50\uff1f<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n\u5927\u4f17\uff01<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n\u5f53\u52e4\u7cbe\u8fdb,\u00a0 \u5982\u6551\u5934\u71c3\uff1b<br \/>\n\u4f46\u5ff5\u65e0\u5e38\uff0c\u614e\u52ff\u653e\u9038\uff01<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>This day has just passed, and life has shortened accordingly;<br \/>\nLike fish with lesser water, what joy is there?<br \/>\nAll!<br \/>\nEndeavour with diligence now, as if extinguishing a fire on your head;<br \/>\nBe mindful of impermanence, and beware of laxity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an unconventional Chinese New Year greeting, above is a simple calligraphic piece of &#8216;Samantabhadra Bodhisattva&#8217;s Admonition for the Masses&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[47,223],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designs","tag-anicca","tag-bodhisattva","wpcat-175-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}