{"id":8734,"date":"2011-02-14T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2011-02-14T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:57:06","slug":"negative-karma-imperfect-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/02\/negative-karma-imperfect-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Karma &#038; Imperfect Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/118.jpg?resize=133%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/118.jpg?w=212&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/118.jpg?resize=86%2C96&amp;ssl=1 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why do we sometimes encounter poor Dharma teachers<br \/>\nwho seem to teach inadequately and incoherently?<br \/>\nWe get who we karmically deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Buddha manifests before you,<br \/>\nhow &#8216;poorly&#8217; he appears is a reflection<br \/>\nof your negative karma and imperfect perception.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say every teacher<br \/>\nyou believe or imagine as perfect is definitely so &#8211;<br \/>\nonce again due to your negative karma and imperfect perception.<\/p>\n<p>Who you encounter might be a charismatic but truly poor teacher,<br \/>\nthe manifestation of a demon<br \/>\nwho tricks you into thinking he is your perfect teacher!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we sometimes encounter poor Dharma teachers who seem to teach inadequately and incoherently? We get who we karmically&#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":[139,111,520],"class_list":["post-8734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-karma","tag-perception","tag-teacher","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","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=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}