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Good morning for Kapton. If it is morning where you are, otherwise good morrow, I suppose.

Today we're going over meditation 14 from book 5 and let's cut through all the nonsense and get right to it.

Reason and the method of reasoning are abilities, sufficient to themselves and their

own operations. Thus, they start from their appropriate principle and proceed to their proposed

end, where four reasonable acts are called right acts to indicate the rightness of their path.

So when I first sat down to write this script, it was not my intention to do what I am about to do,

because what I am about to do is divisive on its face.

Now, to be clear, it's not divisive if we do what Marcus is suggesting here and use the method

of reasoning. The appropriate thing to do if we are to determine is suggesting here and use the method of reasoning.

The appropriate thing to do if we are to determine what acts are reasonable or right.

But no matter how strongly you hold a shibboleth, you should be resilient enough to endure two things at least.

First, the questioning of that shibboleth.

And second, the process of letting go of that shibboleth, and second, the process of letting go of that

shibboleth when you are convinced by someone else or experience that it is wrong. I have said

before, probably recently, probably yesterday, that this is a serious podcast. You make jokes sometimes,

perhaps too often, but you are here to practice

stoicism, and stoicism is not a comfortable thing to practice, because if it were, none of us

would need to practice it as we would all be sages if we found adhering to stoic principles

simple and effortless. Stoicism is work. I've said that before, too, so I want you to be prepared to do some work today.

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