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While both are similar, goal of Buddhism is to stop suffering and goal of Stoicism is happiness achieved by living according to nature. Buddhism says "wanting

While both are similar, goal of Buddhism is to stop suffering and goal of Stoicism is happiness achieved by living according to nature. Buddhism says "wanting anything is suffering", Stoicism says "wanting irrelevant things is suffering". Irrelevant things are all that we can't control, non-obvious examples are health and outcomes of our actions. Buddhism says you progress when you are less... you. You have less ego, you want less, you don't hoard useless information and knowledge. Stoicism says you progress when you gain knowledge about life (but not an useless knowledge), when you get better, when you achieve your goals. Buddhism says we are one: humans, animals, plants, rocks. Stoicism says we are one: humans.

HNLurker2 8y ago
>Buddhism says "wanting anything is suffering", Not anything just anything else than not craving that is greed, hate and ignorance (ignorance to the world, the nature of reality that's some Buddhist metaphysic) >Buddhism says you progress when you are less... you. You have less ego, You are not less because they are basically saying in an absolute sense there is no self, identity. Methinks that's true that true that it is bad to just straight up have that as dogma, but in reality when you meditate on impermanence and the nature of suffering you also start to identify less with the five aggregates: feeling, form, perception, mental etc... (Sorry for talking like a dogmatic religious monk)