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Minding your Health
Remember the Stoic Triad? Body, Mind, Spirit? At this point, I would like to talk about Body, about minding your health.
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos-the trees, the clouds, everything.” Thich Nhat Hahn Continue reading
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The Stoic Hero’s Triad of Virtue
In your preparation for taking on life, there are three facets of your training that are key. You’ve heard them before, as they are nothing new. They are Body, Mind, and Spirit. A Stoic Hero, of course has his own spin on these three aspects. I know these seem kind of cliche. I tried to be more original but there really is no other way to break it down. To be ready, to be virtuous (which means to be happy), I have to work on all three. They are not independent of each other…no way! Your physical health is affected by your mind and spirit, your mind is connected to your body is connected to your emotional well being, and on and on. Interestingly, each of these aspects fit quite nicely with the buoys on my philosophical raft. Continue reading
The Enchiridion
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I just read the Enchiridion in its entirety yet again. Enchridion means “handbook.” It contains the concise advice of Epictetus. It is an amazing short work on “how to live.” You can read all of it in about an hour, and I highly recommend it.
It can be found on the internet here: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html