{"id":3709,"date":"2026-04-02T23:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:42:32","slug":"mastery-tao-te-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Mastery &#8211; Tao Te Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3712\" style=\"width: 2572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Full-Moon-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3712\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Full-Moon-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2572\" height=\"1929\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elkhorn Crest Trail, Baker County, OR.\u00a0 [Photo Copyright Max Vollmer, Click to Enlarge]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Master doesn&#8217;t seek fulfillment.\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 \u00a0Not seeking, not expecting,\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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She is present, and can welcome all things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master doesn&#8217;t seek fulfillment.\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 \u00a0Not seeking, not expecting,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mastery &#8211; Tao Te Ching<\/span> <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":[71,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}