{"id":6131,"date":"2021-02-24T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2021-02-24T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:49:11","slug":"be-the-water-on-a-flame-not-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/be-the-water-on-a-flame-not-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Be The Water On A Flame, Not Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 80%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/category\/author\/andrew-j-williams\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Dharma Master Andrew. J. Williams<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6132\" src=\"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/light.jpg 790w, https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/light-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/light-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%; color: #ed1c24;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">BE THE WATER ON A FLAME, NOT FUEL<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">\u25cf\u25c6\u25cf \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25c6\u25c7\u25c6 \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">&#8220;Just as water will put out a fire, whenever awkwardness, disagreement or problems arise when we are communicating with others, we should be the solution to the problem. Be the cause of peace and understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Just as we should avoid adding fuel to a fire, because it would make the fire worse, we should avoid adding to any awkwardness, disagreement or problems that arise when we are communicating with others. Not be the cause of further conflict and misunderstanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Sometimes we can simply agree to disagree. Peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">We should also do likewise when dealing with our own mind. When unwholesome thoughts or attitudes arise in our mind, eradicate them, let them go, avoid adding to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Add the pure water of wisdom, non-attachment and loving-kindness, and put out the impure flames of ignorance, greed and anger. Purify your mind and all will be well.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><strong>\u25cf\u25c6\u25cf \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25c6\u25c7\u25c6 \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><strong>~Dharma Master Andrew. J. Williams~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharma Master Andrew. J. Williams &nbsp; &nbsp; BE THE WATER ON A FLAME, NOT FUEL \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25c6\u25c7\u25c6 \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf &#8220;Just as water will put out a fire, whenever awkwardness, disagreement or problems arise when we are communicating with others, we should be the solution to the problem. Be the cause of peace and understanding.\u00a0 [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[325,229],"tags":[357,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}