{"id":9818,"date":"2011-08-26T01:15:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2011-08-27T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T06:24:51","slug":"the-buddhas-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/08\/the-buddhas-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha&#8217;s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>R\u0101hul was raised by his mother and grandfather, King  Suddhodana. When he was seven years old, the Buddha returned to his home  city of Kapilavatthu at the request of his father who missed him  dearly. On the seventh day of his return, Yasodhar\u0101 took R\u0101hula to see  his father, the Buddha. She told R\u0101hula that since his father had  renounced the palace life and as he was the next royal prince in line,  he should ask his father for his inheritance of crown and treasure for  his future sake when his grandfather would no longer rule the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal, R\u0101hul followed the Buddha, saying &#8220;Give me my  inheritance.&#8221; Nobody tried to stop him, nor did the Buddha prevent him  from following him. He then looked at his father and said, &#8220;Lord, even  your shadow is pleasing to me.&#8221; &#8211; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9821\" title=\"P1010908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010908-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010908.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010908.jpg?resize=72%2C96&amp;ssl=1 72w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010908.jpg?w=338&amp;ssl=1 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While R\u0101hula found the Buddha&#8217;s shadow pleasing, I find the  back view of Buddha statues (and their\u00a0silhouettes) pleasing and  serene. It gives me a sense that the Buddha is always waiting. Waiting  for me to approach him for teachings. Namo Buddhaya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u0101hul was raised by his mother and grandfather, King Suddhodana. When he was seven years old, the Buddha returned to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photojournal","tag-buddha","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}