{"id":9589,"date":"2011-07-20T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2011-07-20T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:08:09","slug":"where-is-buddha-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/where-is-buddha-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is &#8216;Buddha-ness&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/138.jpg?resize=210%2C153\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/138.jpg?w=263&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/138.jpg?resize=96%2C70&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do we recognise<br \/>\na Buddha image<br \/>\nto be a Buddha image?<\/p>\n<p>Is it the twirls of hair?<br \/>\nBut where is the &#8216;Buddha-ness&#8217; in that?<br \/>\nIs it the calm smile, or the kindly look in the eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Is it the posture of the body,<br \/>\nthe gesture of graceful hands?<br \/>\nIs it all of that together?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it takes<br \/>\nBuddha-nature within us<br \/>\nto recognise its expression without us.<\/p>\n<p>Then again,<br \/>\nthere might be images meant to &#8216;be&#8217; the Buddha,<br \/>\nthat we never saw to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>Then again,<br \/>\nmaybe the makers of those images<br \/>\nwere less connected to their Buddha-nature when making them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we recognise a Buddha image to be a Buddha image? Is it the twirls of hair? But where&#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":[121],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-buddha","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589","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=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}