{"id":10572,"date":"2011-07-03T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/03\/spiritual-complacency\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T18:26:59","slug":"spiritual-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/03\/spiritual-complacency\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Complacency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The world&#39;s transiency is sufficiently stable to be soothingly seductive. One dies, no doubt, but one is still here and has been for a long time. One exploits the gap between &#39;one dies&#39; and &#39;I die.&#39;&#0160; A feeling of pseudo-security establishes itself. The hard and intransient truth of transiency is kept at arm&#39;s length. Hence one does not seek truth, or does so without fervor. One is lulled into complacency by pseudo-stability. The complacency comes to extend to complacency itself. One no longer cares that one no longer cares to wake up from the dream of life.&#0160;The very idea, if entertained at all, is entertained for the sake of entertainment: the Quest becomes joke-fodder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#39;s transiency is sufficiently stable to be soothingly seductive. One dies, no doubt, but one is still here and has been for a long time. One exploits the gap between &#39;one dies&#39; and &#39;I die.&#39;&#0160; A feeling of pseudo-security establishes itself. The hard and intransient truth of transiency is kept at arm&#39;s length. Hence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/03\/spiritual-complacency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual Complacency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-impermanence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}