{"id":2091,"date":"2009-04-18T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:05:58","slug":"where-to-dwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/18\/where-to-dwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Dwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been considering the house, and decided to consult <em>The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path<\/em>. In the chapter on <em>preparing for meditative serenity<\/em> I found this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dwelling in an appropriate area<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The area should have five attributes:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(a) easy access, so that necessities such as food and clothing may be readily obtained.<br>(b) being a good place to live, where there are no wild beasts such as predators, no enemies, etc.<br>(c) being on a good piece of ground, in that it does not breed sickness<br>(d) offering good companionship insofar as your companions are ethically disciplined and like-minded<br>(e) being well situated inasmuch as there are not many people about in the day and little noise at night.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;m thinking (a) near a T stop, (b) the nice part of Dorchester (c) not in a swamp (d) will be there and (e) not sure yet, but it seems to be on a fairly quiet street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been considering the house, and decided to consult The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path. In the chapter on preparing for meditative serenity I found this: Dwelling in an appropriate area The area should have five attributes: (a) easy access, so that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}