{"id":1419,"date":"2012-05-04T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2012-05-04T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:31:01","slug":"ken-mcleod-is-happiness-the-goal-of-religion-or-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/ken-mcleod-is-happiness-the-goal-of-religion-or-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken McLeod: Is Happiness the Goal of Religion, or of Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great article by Ken McLeod about happiness, spiritual practice and life! here&#8217;s just a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Don Cupitt notes in his book The Great Questions of Life, we are at the beginning possibly in the middle, but definitely not at the end of a global shift in the concept of religion, a shift away from the view of religion as a way of transcending the human condition and toward a view that religion is about embracing the human condition. He opens this talk with a description of how the use of the language of life has, over the past century, largely replaced the language of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, for me, spiritual practice is now not so much about happiness as about completion, a way of experiencing life that is as complete as possible in each and every moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>click here for the full article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ken-mcleod\/is-happiness-the-goal_b_700403.html\">Ken McLeod: Is Happiness the Goal of Religion, or of Life?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article by Ken McLeod about happiness, spiritual practice and life! here&#8217;s just a taste: As Don Cupitt notes in his book The Great Questions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}