i am tired. i am weary. i could sleep for a thoousand years. a thousand dreams that would awake m

[din_din_dote]

Stayed home today. I've been doing some work on my latin project (ancient philosophy). I need a break. I need a break. Stoicism is all I know. It's what I've been doing when I'm not sleeping, eating, listening to music, web browsing. I'm not an efficient worker. And I'm not a Stoic because I desire to be doing something else right now and desire is

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[esinator87]

I've been getting daily emails lately from beliefnet.org with tidbits from Buddhism, which I'm very interested in. But so much of what Buddhists value involves a denial of the qualities that make us human ... our vulnerability, our passion, our volatility ... that I don't think we should reject those qualities. I think embracing those characteristics is the first step toward affirming our humanity, which more of us need to do everyday.

A hedonistic abandon isn't the right way to approach life, but I find Buddhism -- and Stoicism -- too opposite to the natural qualities by which we characterize our humanity. Can't we find a happy medium between the philosophies that deny desire and those that encourage it?