{"id":8268,"date":"2014-12-15T01:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/15\/its-ok-not-to-be-optimistic-buddhist-teachings\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T01:33:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:33:06","slug":"its-ok-not-to-be-optimistic-buddhist-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/15\/its-ok-not-to-be-optimistic-buddhist-teachings\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s OK not to be optimistic. Buddhist teachings say, you know, feeling that you have to maintain hope can wear you out, so just be present\u2026 The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you\u2019re worrying about whether you\u2019re hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you\u2019re showing up, that you\u2019re here, <em>and<\/em> that you\u2019re finding ever more capacity to love this world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Philosopher and Rilke translator <strong>Joanna Macy<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/12\/10\/joanna-macy-a-year-with-rilke-death-mortality\/\">how Rilke can help us embrace our mortality and be more fully alive<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s OK not to be optimistic. Buddhist teachings say, you know, feeling that you have to maintain hope can wear you out, so just be present\u2026 The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you\u2019re worrying about whether you\u2019re hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/15\/its-ok-not-to-be-optimistic-buddhist-teachings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4554,4553],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-it-appeals","tag-mmhmmm","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}