Stoicism Non Duality

[Orb]

I watched this really good video on stoicism and never realized how "non-dual" it is. 

 

Here's the video: 

 

 

"Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass."

 

-Marcus Aurelius 

[Devin]

I always thought the Socratic Method, Socrates always asking "how do you know?", echoed maybe not non duality, but nothingness or infinity. But it is a bit non dual, pretty Phil-ish at least.

Edited August 8, 2023 by Devin

[Orb]

@Devin its cool seeing how the non dual message gets translated in different cultures.

[Devin]

@Orb

 

Ouroboros - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

 

"One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE.

 

The famous ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text, The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra (Κλεοπάτρας χρυσοποιία), probably originally dating to the 3rd century Alexandria, but first known in a 10th-century copy, encloses the words hen to pan (ἓν τὸ πᾶν), "the all is one".

 

An early example of an ouroboros (as a purely artistic representation) was discovered in China, on a piece of pottery in the Yellow River basin. The jar belonged to the neolithic Yangshao culture which occupied the area along the basin from 5000 to 3000 BCE.[13]"