{"id":4072,"date":"2018-11-28T03:44:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/28\/spiritual-practices-and-metaphysical-dogmas\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T03:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T03:44:38","slug":"spiritual-practices-and-metaphysical-dogmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/28\/spiritual-practices-and-metaphysical-dogmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Practices and Metaphysical Dogmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It would be foolish to let the dubiousness of metaphysical dogmas dissuade you from spiritual exercises and the good achievable by their implementation. Don&#39;t let the weakness of the three pillars supporting the Buddhist edifice, <em>anatta, anicca, dukkha<\/em>, keep you from a long and salutary session on the black mat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/04\/just-say-no-to-no-self.html\">A &#39;No&#39; to &#39;No Self&#39;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be foolish to let the dubiousness of metaphysical dogmas dissuade you from spiritual exercises and the good achievable by their implementation. Don&#39;t let the weakness of the three pillars supporting the Buddhist edifice, anatta, anicca, dukkha, keep you from a long and salutary session on the black mat. Related: A &#39;No&#39; to &#39;No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/28\/spiritual-practices-and-metaphysical-dogmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual Practices and Metaphysical Dogmas&#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":[269,105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-meditation","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}