Hooray Weekly

Are you in the habit of seeing things and people as they are or do you attach a story to everything and everyone you see?  If you're honest, (and we all need to be!) most of us are in the habit of poor perception and faulty thinking/logic. We have endless reels that are playing in the background that distort almost every interaction...and we wonder why we suffer!   What's a person to do? Follow our new friends, the Stoics. The first, of the three foundation disciplines, is the discipline of perception, which is quite similar to, if not exactly like the Buddha's path of "right seeing." To see clearly or follow the discipline of perception, we need to: Eat a piece of humble pie and admit to ourselves that we are imperfect. Practice naming small things as they actually are. (Break down everything into component parts. For example, a chair--it is simply a seat, with four legs; made up of wood from a tree, or metal, or rock; has no decorations on it; and, can hold my weight. That is a chair, whether it i