{"id":11487,"date":"2010-07-05T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/meditation-three-baby-steps\/"},"modified":"2010-07-05T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T11:38:16","slug":"meditation-three-baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/meditation-three-baby-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Three Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">First, drive out all useless thoughts.&#0160; Then get rid of all useful but worldly thoughts.&#0160; Finally, achieve the cessation of all thoughts, including spiritual ones.&#0160; Now you are at the threshhold of meditation&#0160;proper.&#0160; Unfortunately, a lifetime of work may not suffice to complete even these baby steps.&#0160; You may not even make it to the threshhold.&#0160; But if you can achieve even the first step, you will have done yourself a world of good.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The idea behind Step One is to cultivate the ability to suppress, <em>at will<\/em>, every useless, negative, weakening thought as soon as it arises<\/font>.&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, drive out all useless thoughts.&#0160; Then get rid of all useful but worldly thoughts.&#0160; Finally, achieve the cessation of all thoughts, including spiritual ones.&#0160; Now you are at the threshhold of meditation&#0160;proper.&#0160; Unfortunately, a lifetime of work may not suffice to complete even these baby steps.&#0160; You may not even make it to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/meditation-three-baby-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meditation: Three Baby Steps&#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":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487","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=11487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}