Podcast Benomtad

Meditation and Stoicism to Regulate Oneself (Clip)

Meditation as a way the mind learns to regulate itself.  LL adds in Stoic ideas.  
 
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We Infant Tyrants (Clip)

We Infant Tyrants (Clip)
It seems that a key separation from nature, from other animals, is humans’ unlimited appetites and desires.  The figure of the tyrant is a prototypical example of the human with these fed and yet unsatiated desires.  A three year-old with power and sexuality.  
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Confusion in the Market Square (Clip)

Confusion.  Voices trying to induce it.  Snake oil and projects.  Things develop.  A nearly-undifferentiated mass presents itself to the senses.
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Being and Having Needs in a Market Economy (Clip)

First steps seem like training the mind (meditation, etc.), being kind and working hard at meaningful work.  The market tends to confuse our being and having needs.
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How to Impose Rules on the Appetites of Your Heart? (Clip)

Do we need to impose rules on the appetites of our heart?  We use food metaphors to discuss this. But how does one go about imposing those laws?  
 
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Plowing Ahead Too Confidently (Clip)

I ask LL how we (should) deal with our affections?  She cautions against trusting yourself, in a way, too much, and I link this to how we perhaps have transferred a sense of the sacred from outside us to inside.
 
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Disorders from Affections more than from Needs (Clip)

“You know how to suffer and die.  You know how to endure the law of necessity in physical ills, but you have not yet imposed laws on the appetites of your heart, and the disorder of our lives arises from our affections far more than from our needs.” Rousseau, Emile, (trans. Bloom) 443-4. We hear a lot about getting our needs met, and how not getting them met leads to misbehavior, but this quote emphasizes affections instead.  Why can’t good things feel good and bad things feel bad?! Much of Rousseau’s answer seems to be in our development and education.  How do you think we should deal with our affections?
 
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Imposing Laws on the Appetites of Your Heart

“You know how to suffer and die.  You know how to endure the law of necessity in physical ills, but you have not yet imposed laws on the appetites of your heart, and the disorder of our lives arises from our affections far more than from our needs.” Rousseau, Emile, (trans. Bloom) 443-4.  We tend to emphasize need as something to be met, else all manner of bad result, but here he emphasizes appetites, which we may sometimes even elevate to the sacred.  We talk of how we deal with our appetites, including through practices in meditation and Stoicism.  LL particularly likes the reminder Marcus Aurelius gave himself mornings, to expect incompetence, imbecility, error and corruption.  It seems obvious, but one should regularly remind oneself that the mind defaults to a fantasy of the world, but wisdom is about accepting it as it is and being good and happy still.  
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TikTok, Attention, and the Contemplative Life (Clip)

I opine that many social media video-heavy apps hurt the possibility of a contemplative life because of the effect on attention.  I ask LL about her experience with somewhat rigorous philosophical dialogue.  I have had experiences that made me think it can bring you closer to enlightenment, and I was confirmed in this belief by John Vervaeke.
 
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Deleting Social Media and Other Entertainment from My Phone (Clip)

It’s a cliche and yet still noticeable when you see people in public preoccupied on their devices, hyperconnected and unconnected.  I have taken some actions to limit such attention suckers; you can think of this as helping productivity.  I also think of it as increasing chance for meditative attention.
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