{"id":929,"date":"2016-05-13T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=929"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:09:34","slug":"path-of-enlightment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2016\/05\/13\/path-of-enlightment\/","title":{"rendered":"Path of Enlightment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Penick writes, &#8220;the path of enlightenment is not the path <em>to<\/em> enlightenment&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/tricycle.org\/magazine\/what-are-you-meditating\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What Are You Meditating For?&#8221;<\/a> Tricycle, Fall 2013). There are many ways one might\u00a0critique a meditation period (&#8220;I was hot, noisy, distracted, sleepy, &#8230;&#8221;), but &#8220;it brought me\u00a0<em>closer<\/em> to being enlightened&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Penick writes, &#8220;the path of enlightenment is not the path to enlightenment&#8221; (&#8220;What Are You Meditating For?&#8221; Tricycle, Fall 2013). There are many ways one might\u00a0critique a meditation period (&#8220;I was hot, noisy, distracted, sleepy, &#8230;&#8221;), but &#8220;it brought me\u00a0closer to being enlightened&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,11],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-instructions","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}