{"id":7275,"date":"2015-03-29T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/the-parable-of-the-leaky-cup\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T06:00:03","slug":"the-parable-of-the-leaky-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/the-parable-of-the-leaky-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Leaky Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is no point in begging for water with a leaky cup.&#0160; Water thereby gained is immediately lost again.&#0160; First fix the cup, then beg for water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So also with the glimpses and gleanings and intimations from Elsewhere. They won&#39;t be retained in a perforated vessel. &#0160; And if they are not retained, then they cannot do you any good.&#0160; Moral fitness and intellectual discrimination are necessary for their recognition, proper evaluation, retention if judged salutary, and existential implementation.&#0160;&#0160; If you can&#39;t act right or think straight, then mystical, religious, and paranormal vouchsafings, whether they come &#39;out of the blue&#39; or as a result of formal spiritual practices,&#0160; may do more harm than good.&#0160; They may inflate the ego or lead it into the dark regions of the occult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/12\/intimations-of-elsewhere-ignored.html\" target=\"_self\">Intimations of Elsewhere Ignored<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no point in begging for water with a leaky cup.&#0160; Water thereby gained is immediately lost again.&#0160; First fix the cup, then beg for water. So also with the glimpses and gleanings and intimations from Elsewhere. They won&#39;t be retained in a perforated vessel. &#0160; And if they are not retained, then they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/the-parable-of-the-leaky-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Parable of the Leaky Cup&#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":[105,514,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-parables","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}