{"id":2867,"date":"2020-09-08T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2020-09-08T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:44:00","slug":"2867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Serve &#038; Risk Life &#038; Limb for Others Are Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglethread.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Thug.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asinglethread.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Thug-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>So much talk in the US about soldiers these days&#8230;bashing them, calling them &#8220;names&#8221; &#8211; misunderstanding what and why someone volunteers to serve as a warrior. To willingly put themselves in harms way for the sake of freedom for others.<\/h3>\n<h3>Here is a short reminder of what the <em>mightiest warrior <\/em>is&#8230;it includes all that serve.<\/h3>\n<h1>The Mightiest of Warriors<\/h1>\n<p>But the mightiest warriors enemies are not common foes of flesh and bone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then what is the enemy?<\/p>\n<p>The fight is with the inner delusions, the afflictions of self-cherishing and ego-grasping&#8230;those most terrible of demons that catch living beings in the snare of confusion and cause them forever to wander in pain and sorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What is the mission of the mightiest warrior?<\/p>\n<p>The mission is to harm ignorance and delusion&#8230;never living beings. Look upon living beings with kindness, patience and empathy&#8230;cherishing them like a mother cherishes her only child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the karma of sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>The mightiest warrior is the real hero&#8230;.calmly facing any hardship in order to bring peace, happiness and liberation to the world.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"centerinside\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hummingbird aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/old.zatma.org\/Dharma\/zbohy\/Images\/birdborder.gif\" alt=\"Humming Bird\" width=\"540\" height=\"35\" \/><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Author: FaShi Lao Yue<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ZATMA is not a blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0If for some reason you need elucidation on the teaching,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">please contact editor at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:yao.xiang.editor@gmail.com\" data-slimstat=\"5\">yao.xiang.editor@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much talk in the US about soldiers these days&#8230;bashing them, calling them &#8220;names&#8221; &#8211; misunderstanding what and why someone volunteers to serve as a warrior. To willingly put themselves in harms way for the sake of freedom for others. Here is a short reminder of what the mightiest warrior is&#8230;it includes all that serve.&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/shd6fo-2867","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}