220727 What I learned in my studies this morning 2

To virtue hasten, 
Rivers tumble down courses fast, 
By what means is best. 

Daily Stoic:

Like science, Stoicism is open to improvement. If a better way is found, I should abandon Stoicism and follow the new path.  This is one of the reasons I find it more in line with my approach to life. 

Many (most?) other ideologies insist that their way is right, always and forever, and no evidence can contradict their doctrines. Their teachers were perfect as are their teachings.  Hagiography embodied. 

Since Stoicism is a set of ideas, approaches to life and its problems, and is eminently practical, it encourages students to think critically about its teachings and to use what works best for them.  

Not that I always change my mind when challenged — like all humans I am guilty of biases, prejudice, ignorance, and intransigence — but I hope I at least sometimes adapt when faced with evidence that I am wrong.

It's a work in progress. 

Time to be better. 

Today's Meditation:

Today's Meditation II:

Today's Music:

Partita no. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 5. Chaconne by Johann Sebastian Bach (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni) 

Daily Shakespeare:

King John, Act 3 Scene 1