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“Knowledge of precepts and understanding appropriate action can help us to live ethically. But even more important is cultivating what could be called ‘calm emotions’. For the Stoics, these were joy, wishing and caution. These are supposed to be a rational alternative to ordinary kinds of emotions: joy replaces pleasure, wishing replaces desire and caution replaces fear.”
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
“In this way we will be reminded of their true nature and come to a more ‘objective’ judgement. It is, Marcus says, like: ‘seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or that this noble vintage is grape juice, and the purple robes are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood. Or making love – something rubbing against your penis, a brief seizure and a little cloudy liquid.”
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
“In Buddhism, there are different levels of ethical teachings. The basic rules for good conduct are set out in the precepts. There are five precepts for lay people and rather more for monks. For lay people, the precepts advise refraining from: harming living creatures taking what is not given sexual misconduct false speech taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness”
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
― More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
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