{"id":346,"date":"2010-10-02T00:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T16:28:01","slug":"spiritual-progress-is-not-dogmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/02\/spiritual-progress-is-not-dogmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Progress Is Not Dogmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hansadutta at Santa Rosa Junior College (Part 10\/10)<br \/>\nGuest speaker to Professor Carla Grady&#8217;s Asian Philosophy Class<br \/>\nSeptember 27, 2010<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xlo4ZJp7jVE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xlo4ZJp7jVE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In essence, when we examine the different presentations by the different avatars or incarnations, we see the same direction. Spiritual life is progressive. People tend to think it&#8217;s like one dogmatic thing, but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s like education. We begin by making mud pies in kindergarten, and the teacher commends us, &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s very good, you&#8217;re doing very nicely.&#8221; But if your students were to start making mud pies, you&#8217;d think, &#8220;What is this?&#8221; Because they have advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansadutta at Santa Rosa Junior College (Part 10\/10) Guest speaker to Professor Carla Grady&#8217;s Asian Philosophy Class September 27, 2010 In essence, when we examine the different presentations by the different avatars or incarnations, we see the same direction. Spiritual &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/02\/spiritual-progress-is-not-dogmatic\/\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}