260105 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 4.11 (Waterfield)

Meditations, 4.11 (Hammond)

Hammond's translation is so much better at getting the point across. I can see why Waterfield turned it out that way, but it's a definite reach cf Hammond's plain prose.

When I have been wronged, I need to guard against mentally accepting the narrative the other side is using: their hidden assumptions, omissions, and shading.

Judge the situation as it is. Without their baggage, but without my own as well. Look at things honestly and plainly, doing my best to see through illusions, internal and external, which block my ability to reason with all the facts. I can't follow Nature if someone blinds me nor if I blind myself.