{"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":"‘The Limits Of Eastern Wisdom’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t