{"id":572,"date":"2015-09-22T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=572"},"modified":"2015-09-27T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T03:42:27","slug":"a-pure-life-mahayana-precepts","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/portfolio-item\/a-pure-life-mahayana-precepts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pure Life \u2013 Mahayana Precepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with bodhichitta, the compassionate wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The essence of this practice is taking eight precepts and keeping them purely for twenty-four hours. Because this practice is motivated by bodhichitta it is especially powerful for purifying negativities, accumulating merit \u2013 a positive strength of mind \u2013 and creating the cause for us to attain the unsurpassed happiness of enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Usually held on the 15th of the month from 6:30am \u2013 7:00am. Check calendar for exact date and time.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting in English.\u00a0 No booking required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15th of the month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[8,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}