{"id":9002,"date":"2011-04-06T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2011-04-06T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:24:42","slug":"how-did-the-buddha-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/04\/how-did-the-buddha-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did The Buddha Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9003\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/110.jpg?resize=115%2C138\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/110.jpg?w=206&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/110.jpg?resize=81%2C96&amp;ssl=1 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: <\/strong>How was the Buddha-to-be able  to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to  True Happiness, which may not even exist?<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nAnswer:<\/strong> He was so  overwhelmed by great compassion for all that it gave him the courage to  search for what might or might not be there, and was willing to die in  the quest for it. It&#8217;s fighting the good fight! He did spend many past  lives on the same quest, which surely  helped him greatly to sift the tried and failed paths from the more  possible  paths. There&#8217;s definitely wisdom at play and perhaps some calculated  risks taken! Once  again, courage driven by great compassion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to&#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":[57,141,82,258,58],"class_list":["post-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-courage","tag-enlightenment","tag-true-happiness","tag-wisdom","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002","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=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}