{"id":6576,"date":"2016-03-19T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/on-desire-and-aversion\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T05:55:49","slug":"on-desire-and-aversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/on-desire-and-aversion\/","title":{"rendered":"On Desire and Aversion: Two Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When we master desire and aversion in the present we mortify what will soon be dead in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;That may be appropriate wisdom for you, old man, but I&#39;m in the full flood of my youth and vigor.&#0160; I love, hate, and live passionately.&#0160; Why should I mortify what will be dead?&#0160; I should further enliven what&#0160; is now alive!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we master desire and aversion in the present we mortify what will soon be dead in any case. &quot;That may be appropriate wisdom for you, old man, but I&#39;m in the full flood of my youth and vigor.&#0160; I love, hate, and live passionately.&#0160; Why should I mortify what will be dead?&#0160; I should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/on-desire-and-aversion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Desire and Aversion: Two Perspectives&#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":[69,269,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-buddhism","category-desire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","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=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}