{"id":9150,"date":"2011-05-20T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2011-05-20T01:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:49:44","slug":"karmic-or-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/05\/karmic-or-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"Karmic or Divine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9151\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/112.jpg?resize=115%2C143\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/112.jpg?w=164&amp;ssl=1 164w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/112.jpg?resize=77%2C96&amp;ssl=1 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During a short talk I gave to some 800 students at Catholic Junior College\u00a0to offer the Buddhist opinion on the Advanced Medical Directive and euthanasia, a student went a little off tangent and remarked that she can&#8217;t accept the idea\u00a0that being born handicapped is a result of karma,\u00a0as she believes we are all created fairly by an all-loving God. I guess she prefers to think that &#8216;we are all made special in our unique ways to make the world a better place&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Not being the subject of focus for the occasion,\u00a0my reply was that whether one believes one&#8217;s handicap is karmic or divine,\u00a0we all agree that we should simply learn to make peace with our shortcomings\u00a0and make the best of our situations. If the subject was theological, I would say it is actually more logical and easier to believe our current unfortunate situations result from our actions, because if not, a fair God, if he exists, would bless all equally with fit and able bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a short talk I gave to some 800 students at Catholic Junior College\u00a0to offer the Buddhist opinion on the&#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":[244,139],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-god","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","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=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}