De ira

Many people believe that being a Stoic means not feeling these impressions at all, and they blame themselves for having them.

Seneca clears this up in his essay, On Anger.

He says there are first movements that don't depend on us, a shiver, a start, the flush that rises to the face, that even the wise man feels them, and that this is not yet a passion.

The passion begins when the mind approves that first movement and lets itself be carried along.

When you notice that your body's reacting, you do the physiological sigh, two short breaths, one long out.

Then ask, "Am I letting this individual inside the walls of my inner citadel?" Seneca said, "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." Seneca, the stoic master, the person who wrote one of the best texts ever written on anger, says, "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." Why would he say that if he didn't think there was a lot of validity to it? And then third, the evening review.

Three questions.

What have I cured today? What fault have I resisted? And in what respect am I better? What have I cured today? What fault have I resisted? And in what way am I better? That is your morning, midday, and evening review.

So the challenge that I want to take with you into this week is I want you to run this practice once a day, specifically for the difficult individual, 90 seconds in the morning, the hook, during the day in the review at night, seven days.

What's the Seneca writing on anger? He has a book called "On Anger" or "De Ira." Does anyone have any questions? Anything specific you want guidance from, uh, from myself or other individuals in this talk? What were the three questions, please? You mean in the evening review? So the three questions were, what ill have I cured today? What fault have I resisted? And in what respect am I better? Okay, guys.

Well, thank you so much for, uh, for joining me today.

Um, I hope that was useful, and I hope you have a great rest of the day.

Acts seven, verse fifty-six.

See on the difference of these words, Matthew twenty-seven, verses fifty-one and fifty-two.

To pnevma, the spirit, with which Jesus was about to baptize.

Verse twelve.

This word is derived from specula, a lookout, a watchtower.

The speculators executed capital punishments.

Seneca fifty-one, De Ira, chapter sixteen.

Verse twenty-nine, stoma.

This is going to be the first talk that I've ever put out on anger.

The thing I want to stress from the beginning is that when we talk about anger, I genuinely believe that it's a useful topic for discussion for every human on earth.

I don't think that only people who experience a lot of anger should steady anger.

And then, you know, thank you, anger.

You can go on your way now.

One of the most influential Stoic philosophers is Seneca the Younger, and he wrote a book called On Anger.

And the first thing I want to say about the Stoics, if you haven't heard of them, is Stoicism is an ancient philosophical school of life founded around 2000 years ago.

It's sort of the thought of Socrates.

The speculatores executed capital punishments.

Seneca, 51, De Ira, chapter 16.

Verse 29.

Stoma.