{"id":1681,"date":"2023-01-11T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/detachment-and-renunciation\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:40:48","slug":"detachment-and-renunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/detachment-and-renunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Detachment and Renunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Notebooks of Paul Brunton<\/strong>, Volume Two, <em>The Quest<\/em>, p. 130, #242:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Detachment from the world is an absolute necessity for the man who seeks authentic inner peace, and not its imagined counterfeit. But renouncement of the world is not necessary to any except those who have an inborn natural vocation for the monkish life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It is not easy, but one can be <em>in<\/em> the world but not <em>of<\/em> the world. Paradoxically, however, the monastic life is an easier way to detachment. To live a life of monkish virtue in a monastery is relatively easy; to do so in the world, hard.&#0160; This is why monasteries were established in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Volume Two, The Quest, p. 130, #242: Detachment from the world is an absolute necessity for the man who seeks authentic inner peace, and not its imagined counterfeit. But renouncement of the world is not necessary to any except those who have an inborn natural vocation for the monkish life. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/detachment-and-renunciation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Detachment and Renunciation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,358,106,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brunton","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-spiritual-exercises","category-spiritual-hygiene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","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=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}