{"id":8983,"date":"2011-04-05T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2011-04-05T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:57:11","slug":"hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/04\/hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8984\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/16.jpg?resize=134%2C134\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/16.jpg?w=192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/16.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><br \/>\nHe described his plight<br \/>\nto be a hungry man,<br \/>\nwho has no food at home,<br \/>\nyet unable to eat outside.<\/p>\n<p>He was describing his situation<br \/>\nof often being with sexual need,<br \/>\nwhile his wife was uninterested,<br \/>\nwhile he should not fulfill it with anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like an apt analogy,<br \/>\nbut it is not,<br \/>\nbecause lust is not a need like food,<br \/>\nbecause lust is a want that can be tamed.<\/p>\n<p>If sex is a need,<br \/>\nthe Buddha would have died from being celibate,<br \/>\nthe monastics would have died from deprivation,<br \/>\nthe sex-starved rapists would be pardoned!<\/p>\n<p>He should temper his lust.<br \/>\nHe should not think sex is a must.<br \/>\nHis contentment and peace of mind is in his control.<br \/>\nHe should focus more on spirituality instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He described his plight to be a hungry man, who has no food at home, yet unable to eat outside&#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":[377,275,288,445],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-contentment","tag-lust","tag-peace","tag-sex","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","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=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}