{"id":10671,"date":"2011-11-29T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:52:07","slug":"spiritual-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/spiritual-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10672\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/942.jpg?resize=178%2C58\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/942.jpg?w=254&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/942.jpg?resize=96%2C31&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patients with mental illnesses often stop taking medication when they assume they have gotten better&#8230; only to suffer from relapses. The feeling of getting better is often precisely due to the medication&#8217;s effects.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to Dharma learning and practice too. We sometimes assume we have absorbed and cultivated enough of the Dharma, and thus pause in learning and practice&#8230; only to backslide eventually. The Dharma is spiritual medicine &#8211; Panacea!<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with mental illnesses often stop taking medication when they assume they have gotten better&#8230; only to suffer from relapses&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-10671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-practice","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}