{"id":1907,"date":"2013-04-05T21:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/the-ten-things-that-make-us-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:29:28","slug":"the-ten-things-that-make-us-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/the-ten-things-that-make-us-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"The ten things that make us vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_content\">\n<p>1.\u00a0  An exacerbated sense of self-importance\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2.\u00a0  To keep ruminating on the past\n<\/p>\n<p>\n3.\u00a0  To be full of anxiety about the future\n<\/p>\n<p>\n4.\u00a0  Not to be able to rest in the awareness of the present moment\n<\/p>\n<p>\n5.\u00a0  To put all our hopes and fears on the outer conditions of happiness\n<\/p>\n<p>\n6.\u00a0  To neglect cultivating inner conditions of genuine happiness: inner peace, inner freedom, altruistic love, and compassion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n7.\u00a0  To seek a selfish happiness\n<\/p>\n<p>\n8.\u00a0  To relate to the suffering of others in a self-centered way. (Instead, we need to relate to  the suffering of others with altruistic love and compassion; this method will increase our courage and d\u00e9termination to care for them).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n9.\u00a0  To be overly concerned by pleasant or unpleasant feelings, gain and loss, praise and criticism, fame and anonymity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n10.\u00a0 To distort reality by constantly superimposing mental projections upon others and the outside world.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 An exacerbated sense of self-importance 2.\u00a0 To keep ruminating on the past 3.\u00a0 To be full of anxiety about the future 4.\u00a0 Not to be able to rest in the awareness of the present moment 5.\u00a0 To put all our hopes and fears on the outer conditions of happiness 6.\u00a0 To neglect cultivating inner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}