{"id":9458,"date":"2012-08-15T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/engagement-with-equanimity\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:40:20","slug":"engagement-with-equanimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/engagement-with-equanimity\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement with Equanimity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Can&#0160;you engage with the political while retaining peace of mind?&#0160; If not, avoid politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The monkish virtues are easy to cultivate and practice in the monastery.&#0160; The trick, however, is to practice them in the world &#8212; where they are needed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#0160;you engage with the political while retaining peace of mind?&#0160; If not, avoid politics. The monkish virtues are easy to cultivate and practice in the monastery.&#0160; The trick, however, is to practice them in the world &#8212; where they are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,69,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","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=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}