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Podcast: Modern Meditations - Stoicism For The Real World
Episode: #43 - Meditations Book 6: To Move From One Unselfish Act to Another, Why You Don’t Exist, Big Mind vs Small Mind, Can You Have Two Souls? & Koans
Description: Send us Fan MailYour favorite Stoic podcast is back, as we work our way through Meditations Book 6 which is all about the unself. Marcus makes quite the claim in this chapter that “The only rewards of our existence here are an unstained character and unselfish acts..."But what does it mean to be unselfish? And why is it a reward? To answer these questions we explore some Buddhist tenants and a surgical procedure that will make you question whether you exist at all. Then we move through what Marcus suggest on h...