{"id":3450,"date":"2019-12-17T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/practice-the-step-back\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:42:56","slug":"practice-the-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/practice-the-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice the &#8216;Step Back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Keep the obtrusions of memory and perception and anticipation at mental arm&#39;s length. Practice the &#39;step back.&#39; Rather than &#39;go with the flow&#39; of centrifugal mind, examine whither it tends. To a place worth visiting?&#0160; Harder still, well-nigh impossible, is to examine whence it comes. Swimming upstream to the hidden Source of the stream is much harder than impeding the outward flow.&#0160; Content yourself for now with mental continence, an analog of, and probably impossible without, sexual continence. The practice of non-attachment is recommended by the major wisdom schools in the East and the West.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep the obtrusions of memory and perception and anticipation at mental arm&#39;s length. Practice the &#39;step back.&#39; Rather than &#39;go with the flow&#39; of centrifugal mind, examine whither it tends. To a place worth visiting?&#0160; Harder still, well-nigh impossible, is to examine whence it comes. Swimming upstream to the hidden Source of the stream is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/practice-the-step-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice the &#8216;Step Back&#8217;&#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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}