{"id":357,"date":"2007-06-14T06:48:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T11:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/1181751512264.html#comment1181821719121"},"modified":"2007-06-14T06:48:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T11:48:39","slug":"comment-re-the-dalai-lamas-rider-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"[Comment] Re: The Dalai Lama&#039;s &#034;Rider&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness, like most people who value human relationships over tradition, will eat meat if it is served to him in good faith.  <\/p>\n<p>Since I follow the same principles, here is an example.  I come to your house for dinner.  You do not know that I am a Buddhist and vegetarian.  You serve me a steak.  Because I value your personal comfort and friendship more than a beef that has already been killed, and that was not killed for my personal benefit, I will eat (and enjoy) the steak.  <\/p>\n<p>If, however, you knew of my preferences and served meat anyway, I might or might not be offended depending on the circumstances, but I would pass on the steak.  Like most things, it&#039;s a matter of intent &#8212; and the Middle Way.  There is no need to be extreme; it gains nothing, and causes unhappiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness, like most people who value human relationships over tradition, will eat meat if it is served to him in good faith. Since I follow the same principles, here is an example. I come to your house for dinner. You do not know that I am a Buddhist and vegetarian. You serve me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}