Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Every Saturday, I publish a podcast

episode that provides a guided wellness practice. I feature a variety of modalities including meditation,

stoic contemplation, and breathwork. Now sometimes I am your guide and other times I

pepper in master teachers from the commune library, including Jack Cornfield, Sharon Salzburg,

David G. and Michael Beckwith, among others.

Of course, you can access the entire treasure trove of Commune teachers and thousands of accompanying

lessons by subscribing to our course platform. You can try it for free for 14 days at onecomcom slash trial.

These weekly short guided praxis will hopefully provide you with a foundation to develop a regular

practice.

And there's simply every reason in the world to develop a meditation or a stoic contemplation practice. And there's simply every reason in the world to develop a meditation or a stoic

contemplation practice. So today's exercise is a short stoic practice titled Doing Something for

the Last Time. If your interest in stoicism is peaked, well, you're in luck.

I released an entire course of stoic meditations earlier this year.

This meditation doesn't need to take place in lotus pose or Padmasana or with burning

frankincense wafting around the room.

It's really more of a contemplation. And personally, I love

walking or hiking and working through this practice. It does, however, necessitate quiet time

and focused attention to have good results. So only embark on it if you can fulfill these requirements.

In his meditations, the great Stoic Marcus Aurelius wrote,

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Lately, when I've been lying in bed at the end of a long day, I have been thinking that this

is the last May 25th or whatever date it is, that my eldest daughter, Phoebe, will be living

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