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  • Robert October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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    I have a similar take. I do feel that the engagement with Buddhism helped prepare me, though--not sure what would have happened if I'd encountered Epicureanism first!

  • Robert October 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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    This makes a lot of sense. It also helps explain a phenomenon that used to puzzle me; I'd experience these very nice states of tranquility during meditation, often with a feeling of bliss mixed in there as well, and it would feel like I'd accessed…

  • Rolf October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM

    Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.
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    Have a great one, Adrastus!!

  • Kalosyni October 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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    This Vatican Saying comes up:

    VS54. We must not pretend to study philosophy, but study it in reality, for it is not the appearance of health that we need, but real health.

    I always interpret this as a combination of both physical and mental health.

    And this…

  • Adrastus October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM

    Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.
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    Thank you so much, Kalosyni and Cassius!

    I believe it shall be a very good day.

  • Kalosyni October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM

    Uploaded the image Personal Narratives.
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  • Cassius October 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM

    Replied to the thread Forum Operation Update.
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    Thanks Martin. Mine have come back too even though I am not aware of having fixed anything. Weird.

  • Kalosyni October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM

    Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.
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    Happy Birthday Adrastus !:)

    (btw...I happened to find this quote here).

  • Cassius October 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM

    Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.
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    Happy Birthday to Adrastus! Learn more about Adrastus and say happy birthday on Adrastus's timeline: Adrastus

  • Martin October 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM

    Replied to the thread Forum Operation Update.
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    Yes, I have the icons/avatars on my screen instead.

  • Kalosyni September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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    I never considered myself an "intense" meditator. Some of the people attending the Buddhist group would be meditating every day for 40 minute sessions, at home.

    For me it might have been just 5 or 10 minutes at home, but on Sundays I would attend the…

  • Robert September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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    Kalosyni , I'm always interested to hear about the experiences/trajectories of others who have been involved with Buddhism at some point, so thank you for sharing yours--and for the links. Some of those communities look inviting.

    I still feel gratitude…

  • Kalosyni September 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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    Is this perhaps coming up because of the differences in ancient Greek language vs modern Greek language?

    Also, could it imply "being busy and therefore not getting around to studying the true nature of things" and then coming to one's death without…

  • Pacatus September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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    I seem to recall that Douglas Bates (whose site Kalosyni linked above), in his book Pyrrho's Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism – a thick, small-print tome in paperback – said that he gave up meditating because there was no record of…

  • Bryan September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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    Yes the take-away from VS 11 seems to be a reminder to always hold in mind the goal of tranquil activity -- that we want to be tranquil without becoming listless, and we want to be active without becoming agitated.

    On the original topic, I wanted to point…

  • Kalosyni September 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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    Revisiting Vatican Saying 14 ...

    ...rushing around without considering that life has a finite length of time.

    If what you do is always done with the thought that you have wisely chosen what you are doing and you know (and remember) that you only have a…

  • Cassius September 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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    Martin are we speaking about the same thing? Mine is showing this as an example from the "Latest" page (this used to be a set of icons, now it's the text of the names)

  • Martin September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM

    Replied to the thread Forum Operation Update.
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    It shows the avatars on my PC screen as usual.

  • Cassius September 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM

    Posted the thread Forum Operation Update.
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    It has been reported that the "users online" right sidebar box (displayed at very bottom if you have a small screen device) has begun displaying user names in text rather than showing their avatars as normal. This applies to both users on in the last 24…

  • Kalosyni September 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM

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    Thomas Jefferson had this to say about ancient philosophers (in the forward letter of his "Jefferson Bible"):

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    And it does seem that much of this could be said of Epicurean philosophy.

  • Kalosyni September 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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    Started briefly with a Tibetan Buddhist group, then interspersed for a few times with a visit to a bay area Soto Zen Center, also once attended a Thai Forest Tradition short retreat for lay practitioners, and my main practice of several years of…

  • Robert September 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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    Kalosyni Glad to meet another Epicurean former Buddhist! Were you affiliated with a particular Buddhist school/tradition? I started off with Zen but gravitated towards Theravada, in part because I like reading those ancient texts.

    Yes, the idea of…

  • Eikadistes September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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    I include a brief mention of those parallels in my paper about holy shit. There is a historical possibility that Nāgārjuna (the founder of the Madhyamaka philosophy, one of the primary influences of Mahāyāna Buddhism which represents the majority of…

  • Pacatus September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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    Undoubtedly the best scholarly introduction to Pyrrhonism is Adrian Kuzminski’s Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism. Although Kuzminski uses (particularly Nagarjuna’s) Buddhist philosophy as a helpful interpretive lens, the book…

  • Kalosyni September 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM

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    There are within ancient Theravadin Buddhist texts - the Pali Sutta - certain passages which point to how conciousness is dependent on factors (Eye-consciousness: Arises dependent on the eye and visible forms. Ear-consciousness: Arises dependent on…

  • Robert September 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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    Eikadistes

    This thread is of great interest to me. I was involved in Buddhism, fairly seriously at one point, for more than a decade. It's what finally led me to Epicureanism: in a nutshell, I saw that Epicureanism contains many of the things I like…

  • Martin September 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM

    Replied to the thread On Latin and Cicero's eloquence.
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    The meme seems to be at least 7 years old. I found no definite source.

  • Martin September 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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  • Cassius September 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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    I can't endorse or oppose this book, but this might be worth checking out from a post by Peter Forster at Facebook in the Epicurean group:

    I'd like to recommend this book which debunks quantum mysticism. Although it's not related to Epicurean Philosophy I…

  • Cassius September 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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    In the text for this episode, Cicero uses the story of the Gracchi and their reforms to illustrate how dramatically words and goals can differ. It will be worth knowing a little about that background, so here's a pretty good video setting the stage.

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