{"id":9080,"date":"2011-05-09T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T07:31:15","slug":"how-should-a-buddhist-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/05\/how-should-a-buddhist-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"How Should A Buddhist Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9081\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11.jpg?resize=133%2C136\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11.jpg?w=222&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11.jpg?resize=94%2C96&amp;ssl=1 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Just before polling day, I wrote this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shen.shian\/posts\/10150189984054001\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shen.shian\/posts\/10150189984054001<\/a> To my surprise, more than 30 friends &#8216;liked&#8217; it, and many commented on it:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How should a Buddhist vote? Vote with  compassion and wisdom. Vote for greater compassion and wisdom. Vote with  more compassion for others, even if you are already doing well. With  more compassion for the sake of the old, the sick, the poor, the  disabled, the weak, the trampled, the forgotten, the voiceless. And with  more wisdom, by listening and reflecting on all sides before choosing  what is best for most. Even as we aspire to go to Pureland, let&#8217;s make  this world a Pureland best we can. And all Purelands are made with  compassion and wisdom. Amituofo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>I also wrote this at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shen.shian\/posts\/10150188007114001\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shen.shian\/posts\/10150188007114001<\/a>, which gathered many comments too:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ Are apologies at the last minute the least or the most sincere [or in between?]?<br \/>\n~ To be so-called apolitical is to be politically irresponsible.<br \/>\n~ To be politically correct is often to be morally wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before polling day, I wrote this on http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shen.shian\/posts\/10150189984054001 To my surprise, more than 30 friends &#8216;liked&#8217; it, and many&#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":[57,41,58],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-pure-land","tag-wisdom","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","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=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}