{"id":163891,"date":"2025-09-27T20:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163891"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:49:00","slug":"the-limits-of-eastern-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163891","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Limits Of Eastern Wisdom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/willstorr.substack.com\/p\/there-is-no-just-ego\">Will Storr writes<\/a>: \u201cBuddhism is a status game. The better the monks play at the game of Buddhism, the higher they climb, the greater their rewards. The reason we don\u2019t think of it as a status game is because of the story it tells of itself, of wisdom, virtue and freedom from ego.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Storr writes: \u201cBuddhism is a status game. The better the monks play at the game of Buddhism, the higher they climb, the greater their rewards. The reason we don\u2019t think of it as a status game is because of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163892,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163891\/revisions\/163892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}