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Monday, November 14, 2011
The Buddha
I watched the PBS special called The Buddha and was re-inspired by something I had long ago found profound about his teachings. The idea of taking the good with the bad, that bad things are going to happen and you're not going to like it. But these things pass in time and always will, and so we must learn to take solace in their passing and appreciate the good times in between.
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I was looking at it last night too, it's very well done. About taking the good with the bad: this seems akin to the idea of "amor fati" that western philosophers like Nietzsche have made so much of. It's not quite fatalism, is it? But it's definitely got stoical implications. We can talk about that on Thursday.
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