{"id":1082,"date":"2013-06-24T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-08-30T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T21:58:13","slug":"apramana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/apramana\/","title":{"rendered":"apramana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>upekkh\u0101 | equanimity &#8211; the wish that beings dwell in the great impartiality that?s free of attachment and aversion<\/p>\n<p>mudita | great joy &#8211; the wish that beings not be separate from the great bliss that?s free of all suffering<\/p>\n<p>karu\u1e47\u0101 | compassion &#8211; the wish that all beings be free of suffering and its causes<\/p>\n<p>maitri | loving-kindness &#8211; the wish that all beings have happiness and its causes<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brahmavihara\" target=\"_blank\">brahmavih\u0101ras<\/a> (sublime attitudes, lit. &#8220;abodes of brahma&#8221;) are a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Sanskrit: apram\u0101\u1e47a, P\u0101li: appama\u00f1\u00f1\u0101)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>upekkh\u0101 | equanimity &#8211; the wish that beings dwell in the great impartiality that?s free of attachment and aversion mudita | great joy &#8211; the wish that beings not be separate from the great bliss that?s free of all suffering karu\u1e47\u0101 | compassion &#8211; the wish that all beings be free of suffering and its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}