A Reminder of Stoic Philosophy

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi

The three types of control:

Things that you cannot control, you cannot control so it’s a total waste spending time worrying about them.

Things that you can control, such as your thoughts and actions, you should worry very deeply about. By practicing meditation, you can practice placing a buffer between an action happening and your reaction. Your actions are the result of your thinking, and your actions cause habits, so being able to control your thinking to not be reactionary helps build good habits.

Lastly, there are the things you have some control over, such as the amount of practice you put into gaining a skill. These things you should also worry about, because you affect the outcome either way.

YAMABUSHI BLOG POSTS

Yamabushi Gear Explainer: The Futodasuki Sash
The Heart Sutra
Lesson from a Yamabushi Master

RANDOM POSTS

Mt. Chokai
Experience for the sake of experience
If you’re not going to be ‘there’, don’t be there: why you should put your device away more
Water Under the Bridge

MOUNTAINS OF WISDOM

Yamabushi newsletter

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi

Get In Touch

Sakata City, Yamagata, Japan 

tim@timbunting.com

Share this:

Like this:

Like Loading...
Scroll to Top