{"id":8594,"date":"2011-01-25T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:22:58","slug":"catcher-in-the-rye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/01\/catcher-in-the-rye\/","title":{"rendered":"Catcher in the Rye?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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J.D Salinger wrote this in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’:<\/p>\n

‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there is a creator of everything, of the rye, cliff and kids, will he be the catcher in the rye? If he will catch all before they fall, why do some still fall to evil and hellish suffering? Why would a good creator create a field with a dangerous cliff, or a beautiful garden with a cunning poisonous snake, that he knows is able to urge its inhabitants to eat a poisonous fruit, that unjustly infects all their descendents?<\/p>\n

If we won’t build a sanctuary, temple or church with any negative element in it, and we are not even perfectly good, how can there be a perfectly good creator of everything who allows so much evil to be abound, that is also created and sustained by him?\u00a0In contrast, Buddhas create Pure Lands with their great compassion and wisdom, which ensure evil will not arise, where the inhabitants who enter it will advance towards enlightenment without fail. The Buddhas are not creators of Samsara, but they are the true catchers, with their Pure Lands open to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J.D Salinger wrote this in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[244,41],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-god","tag-pure-land","wpcat-176-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","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=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}