The Hennayana Tradition and the Mahayana Tradition

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Buddhist tradition developed the Bodhisattva ideal which is this idea that compassion like must be integral to enlightenment. One without any kind of pro-social behavior or compassion or whatever seems to be lacking I think that's partly because again if you think that the shift between looking at ourselves and remember when I said earlier it's easier to look at other people and see. So many of us would kind of want to do that but most people might think they're not really doing anything to help anyone else. It feels like there's something more admirable in heroic political and military figures and social activists and stuff like that.

In this episode, I chat with J.W. Bertolotti host of the In Search of Wisdom podcast, and founder of the Perennial Leader Project. Josh was one of the speakers at our Stoicon-x Military event a few years ago. We’re both very active on Substack now, Josh at Perennial Meditations so I thought it would be a great opportunity to reconnect and chat about philosophy as a guide to life.

Highlights

* How Joshua got into philosophy

* His journey as a podcaster speaking to people about the nature of wisdom

* Stoicism and other philosophies

* Desire and attachment in philosophy

* Conceit, and skepticism as a way of life

* How the Delphic maxims can teach us about philosophy

Links

* Perennial Meditations Newsletter on Substack

* In Search of Wisdom Podcast @in sear on Substack and on Spotify

* Perennial Meditations Podcast

* @JWBertolotti on Twitter