{"id":1380,"date":"2019-04-15T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:12:31","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-vacation-and-a-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-vacation-and-a-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a vacation and a retreat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vacation is when you take a retreat from your boss.<br \/>\nA retreat is when you take a vacation from yourself.<br \/>\nIf you are your own boss, then the Ultimate Reality is close at hand.<br \/>\nHowever, if you are still working for your Self, there&#8217;s no end to it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great paraphrases from the<i>\u00a0Vij\u00f1ana<\/i>\u00a0Bhairava, a 7th century Kashmiri text, is:<br \/>\nSTOP! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(Dharana 66, Verse 89, Jaideva Singh)<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>You could do this right now. Or, alternatively, you could go on retreat, or on vacation.<br \/>\nOr postpone it till next year. Or not. It is already stopped anyway, so there is really nothing<br \/>\nleft to do.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Vacation.<br \/>\nOr Happy Retreat.<br \/>\nOr both.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vacation is when you take a retreat from your boss. A retreat is when you take a vacation from yourself. If you are your own boss, then the Ultimate Reality is close at hand. However, if you are still working for your Self, there&#8217;s no end to it. One of the great paraphrases from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meanderings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}