{"id":9547,"date":"2012-07-19T05:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T05:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/true-detachment\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T05:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T05:07:26","slug":"true-detachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/true-detachment\/","title":{"rendered":"True Detachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">True detachment requires a certain indifference to, and thus a certain detachment from, one&#39;s success or failure at achieving detachment.&#0160; There is a&#0160; paradox here inasmuch as one cannot be detached entirely from the project of attaining detachment.&#0160; Otherwise there would be no difference between the seeker of wisdom and the worldling who is quite satisfied with his current moral condition and does not seek to better himself.&#0160; &#0160;The trick is to pursue detachment detachedly.&#0160; I try to succeed, but if I fail it&#39;s no big deal and if I succeed it&#39;s also no big deal and certainly nothing to crow about or feed my ego on. One has to be aware of one&#39;s various moral failings and work to overcome them, all the while not worrying too much about the outcome.&#0160; One has to avoid the mistake of thinking that one can rely entirely upon oneself while also avoiding the equal but opposite mistake of just letting oneself go.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True detachment requires a certain indifference to, and thus a certain detachment from, one&#39;s success or failure at achieving detachment.&#0160; There is a&#0160; paradox here inasmuch as one cannot be detached entirely from the project of attaining detachment.&#0160; Otherwise there would be no difference between the seeker of wisdom and the worldling who is quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/true-detachment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True Detachment&#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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547","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=9547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}