{"id":2085,"date":"2020-09-27T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2020-09-27T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:48:31","slug":"on-possibility-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-possibility-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"On possibility of change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the forum:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometime between 1993 and 1997, I was dealing with incredibly hard issues and I was thinking something along the lines of &#8220;[insert some famous yogi here] had it easy, he was born within a Hindu tradition, had an enlightened guru, someone taught him yoga and the theory, and I&#8217;m rowing against the currents of shit creek without paddles&#8221;, at which moment something became clear to me: &#8220;at some time in the future, others will look at me and say, it&#8217;s easy for you, you were born enlightened and awesome, but we are having it so hard&#8221;. At which I thought &#8220;if anyone was stupid enough to think I was born enlightened, they should see me now, and they would be instantly cured of that misconception&#8221;, and the response, &#8220;they would never believe it; people instinctively don&#8217;t believe change is possible, that someone fucked up can become great, that you don&#8217;t get to be born enlightened regardless of what your soul looks like, that everybody has to carve paths into neurology in order to build the body-spirit connection; they believe every enlightened person to have been born enlightened and perfect, and every fucked up person to be doomed forever; they don&#8217;t believe that yoga is actually possible and that it works, and that&#8217;s one of the greatest obstacles everybody has to overcome; look at how hard I find it to accept that others had to go through a process, how I find it easy to debase myself because I actually know all the nasty parts of the process I had to go through, and find it almost impossible to accept that known enlightened people would have had to go through that&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the forum: Sometime between 1993 and 1997, I was dealing with incredibly hard issues and I was thinking something along the lines of &#8220;[insert some famous yogi here] had it easy, he was born within a Hindu tradition, had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-possibility-of-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}