Story 66 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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To be a Buddhist is to be a Stoic and to be a Stoic is to be a Buddhist. Neither is a religion. Mere belief in their precepts holds no purchase. Reciting them every morning proves futile. Both speak of universal truths and natural laws that govern human and social behavior. Both schools are empirical, which is to say they are evidence-based. And that itself is grounded or tested, even, on one’s own experience. They both conclude that...
narrated by Ian McCrorie
2022
5 minutes 28 seconds
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