[Dialogue] Stoicism

["ヒンクルマンＤ.Ｗ."]

Hi Dharma,

I don’t have an answer for your question, but I am eager to hear others’ answers.  For me, stoicism (endurance—"we will survive") is a big part of Japanese culture, and helps people survive the pandemic and evolving endemic. I also see stoicism as an opposite of Pollyanna-ism, trying to see the bright side of any situation ("I can save money by shutting myself in my house”).  The message of the theological revolution in RS-1 was different than these two views.

Don

> On Jan 21, 2022, at 9:27, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I need help with an idea I’m trying to sort out. If you have the time and inclination, I would love to hear from you on the following: 
> 
> Saying Yes to life and Stoicism. Stoicism seems to be understood as a relationship to life where you keep going on despite the odds. There is also an inuendo that this may not be humanly possible and that internal pressures will eventually cause the person to crash. What I want to know is, was that the Stoicism that Zeno founded or merely a degraded understanding? Why did we as an Order cast it in a negative light? What was our beef with it? Was it a reaction to the degraded form or were we looking at it in its original sense?
> 
> regards
> Dharma
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