#Things to consider
- Buddhism and Stoicism adapts with time to “fit in” with the contemporary trends.
- Buddhism today is not the same as the Buddhism that Buddha taught.
- The western appropriation of Buddhist teaching has tended to focus on mindfulness and meditation.
- Traditionally Buddhism has been more focused on rebirth.
- Western Buddhism is an “adaptation” of the original.
- Stoic virtue is about maintaining an excellent state of mind and character in the face of life.
- The application of virtue is precisely what allows for life to “flow well”.
- Stoicism is intimately connected with developing virtue.
- One‘s life is determined by one’s perceptions, by what one thinks and not by externals.