{"id":1245,"date":"2023-11-20T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:26:02","slug":"uh-oh-buddhist-forsakes-desire-to-be-a-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Uh Oh! Buddhist Forsakes Desire to be a Buddhist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Asia \u2013 A local Buddhist man finally achieved Nirvana after a lifelong struggle to eliminate desire. After terminating all desires, the last desire to go was Buddhism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAt last, I have attained Nirvana.\u201d The thrilled Buddhist told confused Buddhist monks. \u201cOnce I had eliminated desire for my wife, noodles, and killing geese all that was left to go was Buddhism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cNo, no, I am quite sure that is not what I meant when I told my followers to forsake desire.\u201d The Buddha said, upon learning that one of his followers had forsaken the desire to follow him. \u201cWhen I said forsake desire, I meant that I give up things like my hair, my dignity, cheese, and worldly desires, not Buddhism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The recently lapsed Buddhist refused our request for comment, saying that he had no desire to say anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today South Asia \u2013 A local Buddhist man finally achieved Nirvana after a lifelong struggle to eliminate desire. After terminating all desires, the last desire to go was Buddhism. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAt last, I have attained Nirvana.\u201d The thrilled Buddhist told confused Buddhist monks. \u201cOnce I had eliminated desire for my wife, noodles, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}