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Suggestive that the Buddha’s thinking about Right Mindfulness expresses both aspects ofĮpictetus’ teaching in this parable from Ch. Practice emphasized on Buddhism’s Noble Eightfold Path to enlightenment. What we might call philosophicalĪwareness in Epictetus, is called Right Mindfulness or Thorough Awareness ( Samma-Sati ) in Buddhism, and is the 7 th In Epictetus, is not unique to our Stoic freedman. Say: a “rose by any other name….” so also, the call to philosophical Awareness, which one finds so plentifully articulated Of Epictetus’ Stoic metaphor of Life & World: we are not land-lubbing The only ‘fixed’ reality about the HumanĬondition is its fluidity, its fundamental capriciousness. The World, these populist expressions actually reflect an erroneous philosophical understanding andĬonceptualization of Reality. Therefore invite us to develop longer term strategies about living that actuallyĬorrespond to the heaving and surging circumstances of our human experience of However, because the metaphor of ‘solid ground’, i.e., the harbor layover inĮpictetus’ parable, really just represents a temporary event, and does not To say that such sayings express an attitude toward the life of the mind that seems,Īt first blush, to be desirable human psychology. Ground’, are deceptive conceptualizations for the Human Animal. Like standing on ‘solid ground’ or ‘having our feet firmly planted on the Terraįirma, in the form of a landfall in the course of the voyage, happens occasionally īut it is only a temporary layover in Epictetus’ metaphor. To conduct ourselves well on our journey. We think rightly about our circumstantial situation, that we are at least able In the metaphor is the philosophical life of the mind because it is only when Nature of World, shifting and eternally in motion, always different, always The sea represents the unstable and variable Metaphor is that we are itinerants who find ourselves on an ocean voyage. Navigating on the oceans of World & Life. In the seventh chapter of the Enchiridion, Epictetus riddles for us a