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Interesting, while there may be similarities between the stoic approach and extant Buddhist teachings, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a stoic would
by virtualwhys 12y ago
Interesting, while there may be similarities between the stoic approach and extant Buddhist teachings, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a stoic would never write something like this:
Four and fifty years
I've hung the sky with stars.
Now I leap through –
What shattering!
Eihei Dogen (death poem)
Buddhist logic seems to have religious experience as its foundation.
- logicchains 12y agoWhen I speak of Buddhism I'm referring to the teachings of Buddha, not Buddhism as an organised religion. I lived in East Asia for a couple of years and the Buddhism there seemed pretty much the opposite of what Buddha taught; e.g. people praying to statues of Buddha for wealth.