{"id":3510,"date":"2019-11-04T04:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/the-trick\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T04:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T04:20:53","slug":"the-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/the-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">he trick is to maintain one&#39;s equanimity in the face of the samsaric storm. It&#39;s easy to be a monk in a monastery, but difficult <em>ex claustro.<\/em> The trick is to be in the world, and active in it, but not of it. Not easy, and perhaps impossible. Withdrawal and <em>Weltflucht<\/em> are perhaps all that some of us can ever achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trick is to maintain one&#39;s equanimity in the face of the samsaric storm. It&#39;s easy to be a monk in a monastery, but difficult ex claustro. The trick is to be in the world, and active in it, but not of it. Not easy, and perhaps impossible. Withdrawal and Weltflucht are perhaps all that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/the-trick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trick&#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":[358,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}