{"id":8599,"date":"2011-01-25T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2023-11-03T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T03:52:06","slug":"consecration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/01\/consecration\/","title":{"rendered":"Consecration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/140.jpg?resize=161%2C201\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/140.jpg?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/140.jpg?resize=77%2C96&amp;ssl=1 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Do we need to \u5f00\u5149 (consecrate) Buddha\/Bodhisattva images for veneration on a shrine?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: <\/strong>I recommend you to consecrate it every day with your Dharma practices like chanting, meditating, offering, circumambulation, sharing of merits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Yes I will do that. But is a formal consecration necessary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Not for some, yes for the insecure. There&#8217;s no way to know for sure another consecrator is as virtuous and sincere, connected to the Buddha as yourself actually.<\/p>\n<p>The formal consecration, if chosen, is like the first spiritual &#8216;charging&#8217; session&#8230; But what more important is regular and personal &#8216;(re-)charging&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Do we need to \u5f00\u5149 (consecrate) Buddha\/Bodhisattva images for veneration on a shrine? Answer: I recommend you to consecrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-shrine","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}