{"id":9696,"date":"2011-08-03T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2011-08-03T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:24:13","slug":"countering-jealousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/08\/countering-jealousy\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering Jealousy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9697\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/18.jpg?resize=150%2C114\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/18.jpg?w=188&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/18.jpg?resize=96%2C73&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nTo transform jealousy, it is good to cultivate rejoice (gladness) that others are &#8216;better&#8217;, and to see their better state is a possible model to work towards. Of course, this should be more in the spiritual than worldly sense.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we don&#8217;t become jealous when we see the Buddha to be fully enlightened, but emulate him instead. We also don&#8217;t become jealous of Prince Siddhartha when we hear that he once had great worldly wealth. Spirituality helps to keep things in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>While we should become more skilled and accomplished in our livelihood and such, our real worth in the long run is our measure of our growth in compassion and wisdom, of how much closer to enlightenment we get ourselves to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To transform jealousy, it is good to cultivate rejoice (gladness) that others are &#8216;better&#8217;, and to see their better state&#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":[138,201],"class_list":["post-9696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-jealousy","tag-rejoice","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696","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=9696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}