{"id":893,"date":"2016-01-15T05:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/walking-towards-a-right-refuge"},"modified":"2019-08-03T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:05:43","slug":"walking-towards-a-right-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/01\/15\/walking-towards-a-right-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking towards a right refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes<\/strong>: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 15\/01\/2016<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To motivate oneself consistently to walk the eightfold path it may not be enough to pursue its truths since those truths may not be fully intuited before certain liberations. Tradition recommends that a follower take up a modicum of faith that is also a gratitude and also a consideration of support. The spark of inspiration should derive from personal experimentation, and evaluation of what is offered, but this could never be enough to encompass the full diagnosis and prescriptions of Buddhism.<\/p>\n

Tradition recommends that the walkers adopt three Sarana<\/span> (refuges): the Buddha, the dhamma, and the sangha.<\/p>\n

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Editorial notes: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 15\/01\/2016 To motivate oneself consistently to walk the eightfold path it may not be enough to pursue its truths since those truths may not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,169,106],"tags":[],"metadata":[292,101],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-buddhism","category-the-traveller-is-the-journey","metadata-blog-drafts","metadata-editor_notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":640,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/04\/27\/reflecting-on-a-study-of-buddhism\/","url_meta":{"origin":893,"position":0},"title":"Reflecting on a study of Buddhism","author":"Pala","date":"April 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I have spent a few months engaging myself in a regular study and consideration\u00a0of Buddhism. 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