{"id":7530,"date":"2014-12-09T04:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/09\/of-body-and-buddha\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T04:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T04:05:57","slug":"of-body-and-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/09\/of-body-and-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Body and Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sickness,<\/a>When functioning optimally the body can seem, not only an adequate vehicle of our subjectivity, but a fitting and final realization of it as well.  Soon enough, however, Buddha's Big Three shatters the illusion: sickness, old age, and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything partite is slated for partition.  Shunning inanition, maintaining a wholesome spiritual ambition, work out your salvation with diligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

A glance at the graphic to the left suggests that the order is: old age, sickness, and death.  Prince Siddartha, forsaking the unreality of the royal compound, goes out in quest of the Real and the Uncompounded.  But who is the figure standing on the ground? Siddartha the seeker as opposed to Siddartha the prince?<\/span><\/p>\n

"The trouble is, you think you have time." (Attributed to Buddha)<\/span><\/p>\n

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When functioning optimally the body can seem, not only an adequate vehicle of our subjectivity, but a fitting and final realization of it as well.  Soon enough, however, Buddha's Big Three shatters the illusion: sickness, old age, and death. Everything partite is slated for partition.  Shunning inanition, maintaining a wholesome spiritual ambition, work out your … Continue reading “Of Body and Buddha”<\/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":[69,269,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-buddhism","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","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=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}