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Greg Lopez on Stoicism and Buddhism (Episode 56)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Importance of Attention in Stoic Practice

In Stoicism, it's quite clear that there are three, I guess, foundations of prosoké to make an analogy to the four foundations of mindfulness or sati. So, for Buddhism again, the four things that you are mindful of in order to be doing Buddhist practice are your body, just paying attention to how it is in various ways, and it's nature in some ways. Valences, emotional valences, mind states as well as damas and then like kind of how the patterns of your mind is another way to think about it.

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