250219 What I learned in my studies this morning 5*

Today's Meditation(s):

Letters on Ethics by Seneca, LXVI.39 (Graver)

From Seneca's prior example: if I am being burned, that is part of Nature. The good in this case is trying to 'bear and forbear' the sensation of pain — acknowledging it but doing my best not to cry out and carry on because of it (though, I admit, I may be unable to fulfill this requirement of Virtue to any high degree of success) — and fight against engaging in any extravagant display because I am being burned which is, as I said, part of Nature. 

(Still here after that last sentence? Jolly good!)

So sometimes, to be virtuous, I must resist reacting intensely to what is happening. 

This is the challenge tomorrow.