{"id":8996,"date":"2011-04-06T00:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2011-04-06T00:14:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:14:47","slug":"paradox-of-true-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/04\/paradox-of-true-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of True Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8999\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/19.jpg?resize=121%2C121\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/19.jpg?w=192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/19.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood)<br \/>\nis not conditioned by anyone (including one&#8217;self&#8217;),*<br \/>\nor it would not be unconditional.<\/p>\n<p>But the path to True Happiness<br \/>\nis conditioned by guiding others<br \/>\nto attain True Happiness (as the Bodhisattva path).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even after attaining True Happiness,<br \/>\none continues to unconditionally guides others<br \/>\nto attain True Happiness.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood)<br \/>\nis not conditioned by anyone (including &#8216;others&#8217;),*<br \/>\nor it would not be unconditional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Buddhahood is the realisation<br \/>\nthat self and others being substantial,<br \/>\nunchanging and separate is an illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1: True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood) is not conditioned by anyone (including one&#8217;self&#8217;),* or it would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,240,146,199,258],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-bodhisattva","tag-buddhahood","tag-paradox","tag-self","tag-true-happiness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","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=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}