{"id":574,"date":"2006-02-15T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/are-you-a-buddhist\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T05:31:08","slug":"are-you-a-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/are-you-a-buddhist\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You A Buddhist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes ask me this question, usually because of my monk-like hairdo or some other Buddhist-like things I say and do.  I always have a hard time answering.  While some of my teachers are well-known Tibetans, what to say when they talk like this&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Buddhism we have an incredible arrangement: universal education from beginning at birth up until death, as an old person. I feel these things could be put into a universal language. Give up religion, give up Buddhism. Go beyond the Buddhism. Essential aspect of the philosophy put into the scientific language. This I feel is my aim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpmt.org\/education\/ue.asp\">Essential Education<\/a>?  So, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m a buddhist or not, but I care about awareness, education, practice, wisdom, and compassion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes ask me this question, usually because of my monk-like hairdo or some other Buddhist-like things I say and do. I always have a hard time answering. While some of my teachers are well-known Tibetans, what to say when they talk like this&#8230; In Buddhism we have an incredible arrangement: universal education from beginning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/are-you-a-buddhist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are You A Buddhist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-and-education","category-personal-reflections","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}