Why I Practice Marcus Aurelius' Meditation On Mortality | Ryan Holiday | Daily Stoic Thoughts #24
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- The practice of Memento Mori is an ancient practice of remembering our mortality and letting that inform our actions. Ryan Holiday discusses why he has adopted Marcus Aurelius' meditation on mortality. Learn more about Memento Mori here: dailystoic.com...
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In what moments would reflecting on the reality of mortality help you?
hey man, you stoicism has helped me alot in life. And I have recently started watching your videos and shocked that not many people out there know about this channal. I understand this isnt answering the topic at hand, but I think if you made more eye contact in your videos it would help draw the crowd in more. Just advice from a big fan! keep up the grind man!
It puts things in perspective.
Perspective on life, setting priorities, placing my bet on God.
Thank you from the depths of my heart for introducing me to the Meditations.
I try to apply consciously and not consciously the Memento Mori concept. Not con consciously...because once I "observed" myself reacting in a completely different way.
Thank you Ryan
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I wish there were more women to discuss stoicism in the face of natural biological changes beyond our control; I.e. PMS.
someone: Hey man my wife just gave birth to our son
Ryan: Memento Mori
"If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies."
classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
AdamFiregate right i remember this quote from the manual ( Epictetus)
I may be wrong but maybe when saying that your really saying you could be gone the next moment so live in that moment like the birth of a child like it's your last moment.
@@AdamFiregate But remember to keep your philosophy for yourself (Unless the Father is a fellow stoic friend). No one wants to hear that
@@jag831 I do just that. I don't talk about philosophy, unless someone is interested.
I was scared of dying although I know it is inevitable. Then I saw this video and loved this lesson. I watch it daily and I am meditating on this. I kind of feel less scared of death now. And as a compulsive procrastinator, memento mori has helped me become more purposeful and respect the time life has given me. Thank you team Daily Stoic 🙏
Thanks. Really loving what you quoted Seneca saying: " Do not think that you're moving towards death. Every second that passes is death."
This is real high quality content. Thanks!
As a former 25 years long drug user, this channel has helped me many times when I've been thinking about doing drugs again. Actually right now. Thanks😊and ❤️from Thailand 🇹🇭
Happy to hear that man, hope you are still doing good
I wish I could make my mum understand Memento Mori, she is 76 and fights with people like she has an endless amount of time on earth.
A big challenge of self-work is the challenge posed by those who are not reflective. Compassion and empathy are the only recourse, blunt tools for sure, but tools nonetheless.
Brian , this my first time seeing you. You really impressed me. I'm one of the lucky ones. I had 3 death experiences , as bezar as this sounds , this truly happened to me. (With God as my witness). For what ever reason , He saw fit too keep me around. I have no fears. Not man nor beast , not life nor death . This feeling of fear is a shackle we put on ourselves. It's a wonderful feeling of freedom to have no fears. Let go, let God. Our greatest obstacle is between our ears. God bless each and everyone of you.
"Don't look towards the sky cause there's no heaven above
Don't look down beneath your feet, there's no hell below
But heaven and hell exist within
Heaven is what you make it and hell is what you go through"
I have Momento Mori and Amor Fati tattooed on each wrist as a daily reminder and I have all of the coins from the store as a reminder..Thank you Ryan, for your chosen path and putting out all this content. You’re a huge mentor and teacher in my life and I am grateful for you
Why am I watching this?
I am dying anyway
Memento Mori
This idea originally came to me from the Samuri practice of meditating on all the ways they may die that day. I like the additional thoughts of MR. Thanks
I had a similar thing I would tell myself almost everyday in hard situations. "Tomorrow is not promised". I also look at very old videos or old photos from the early 1900s so that I could remind myself of whats really important as well.
Memento Mori. Remember my death. It’s like looking up at the night ski and really seeing this infinite universe before my eyes. I’m tiny and yet a part of it, and I get to live out whatever that means...
Possibly the best video I have watched in my 60 years!! Thank you Ryan!
Powerful! Thanks for sharing the ancient wisdoms, along with your wisdom. Stoicism reminds me of the western version of buddhist practice in regards to the functioning of our minds. I know a great deal of their practice was to meditate on their own death to wake them to how precious life is, and to remain in this present moment. Being the only moment. Life is fleeting! Memento Mori! 🙏
I loved this. I admire my dogs. They eat every meal as if it were their last. The tiniest bit of steak is the best thing they have ever tasted. Joy in its purest form, the greatest thing to do, is riding to the dump with me in the truck! Momentous mora, I want to live life like my dogs.
I have read ur book the obstacle is the way and it has changed me lot. Thanks Ryan sir
So happy i found this channel this needs to be taught in schools at a young age think about how wise the human race would be.
exactly man!
Memento Mori.... Words to live by.
Peter :- mr. Stark I don't feel so good
Ryan :- memento mori
Quality is next level .
I really embraced the concept:
Not because I want to die, but I recognise that I shall not fear death, but because it is inevitable, I can and shall appreciate all facets of life.
The bad and the good. Putting the regrets aside..they don't matter anymore.
The concept ,if you believe in it, is giving you more mental freedom....therefore it breaks the shackles of the body.
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie memento mori"
HA
"...When the stars make you drool, our boy Marcus is no fool, memento mori."
LOLOLOLOL...
brilliant 🤣
Tf 😂😂
This was one of the best messages so far. Fantastic
This IS PURE WISDOM!!
4 years ago when I was a senior in college I bought Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and NEVER read it. 4 years later, I now find myself in the most stressful, painful, anxious, scared moment of my life and I stumbled upon these videos. I wonder how my life would’ve been different if I had read the book.
Life is a project,
Life is a play.
How we live it
Is our way.
Birth creates death,
From the first breath.
Sometimes it's out of our hands.
When the time to leave the body lands.
Death is not the great enemy,
It's new life to what you can be. 🙏
Thank you for reminding people of the basic truth of life at this time.
I’m learning to live by this. It simplifies everything.
Great job! It helps a lot to just remember death so everything would get back to its real size and mean
Another great way to live each minute of everyday.
I thought you were interviewing yourself for a minute!!!! LOL. Tom is the man! Both of you are just amazing positive men and I'm grateful for the impact you guys are having ! Helps me through the darkness and through the thoughts of wanting to leave the earth. Thank you guys. Thank you
wow,great open conversation,thank you.
Thanks daily stoic
Purchased the Memento Mori coin, by far the best thing I ever did to keep me grounded.... Love it!
Thank you for your help and reminding people who aren't aware why they even exist, truly everyone is born to die not 🚭🚫 only humans but,as well as all living creatures who are breathing but,it makes a difference between life 💕🧬 that is fully spent with preparedness when it comes to its end,it will have a peaceful happy death as I've witnessed from my own family members. Momento Mori is an inspiration to live each day of our life giving ourselves the better of our life perspective,in that way, it will be easier for us to live meaningfully and die happily. Thanks to this uniquely inspired channel,😢😮 it shows the importance of our being alive waiting eagerly to when, where, what, how and why our lives evolves but never knew the secrets of how it ends. Wishing you all the best in life and may all your wishes for you and family will come true.Amen.
Appreciate this
On making long term plans, perhaps its wiser to focus on the steps that are taken rather than the distance you need to walk. You want to be an artist? An author? A musician? Paint that picture, write that book and play that music in the present. Try not to worry about the success you may receive, but take pride in the work that you do today, enjoy 'being' rather than 'becoming'. Would you rather be remembered by the work you wanted to do, or the works that you manage to leave as testament?
Everyday is a step closer to death.A step closer to our graves.So what?..so live now...do what is doable now.Be good whilst you can.
In response to the contridiction 12 minutes into the video: The way I look at balancing long-term thinking (i.e., planning) with living in the moment (i.e., being present) is this: Memento Mori is a 2 part exercise. In one part, you use it in the moment as a gut check. You ask yourself, "Am I doing what I should be doing right now? Are my priorities correct? Am I being mindful of what truly matters to me?" In the other part, memento mori is a deliberate planning function conducted in the moment. Yes, planning is about the future, but it is conducted in the present. When you are planning, you are not obsessively worrying about the future; you are taking the present moment to prioritize what is most important to you. You use memento mori to ask yourself, "If I had a year to live, what would I do with it? How about a month? A week? A day?" You plan your life based on the answers to those questions. Each answer is a guidepost for you. Then, you go back to that first part of memento mori to 'gut check' your behavior as you execute each item in your plan--as each present moment unfolds in a series of moments throughout your future.
Thank you Ryan 🏃. Live and die on this day . From present to present 🕡.
Thank you again for this video I do enjoy and love them a good reminder to chill out✅
When someone bullies/insults you.
Say :- Memento Mori (with a creepy smile and intense stare) they will later search it up and be terrorised
I had a similar experience on an online game recently. Being I am much older, the younger players would use the tired old expression "Ok Boomer" and would continue to insult me by reminding me that I am old and will be dead soon. To their surprise, I completely agreed with them, then reminded them that they too will reach an age when the next generation after them sees them in the same light they see me, and that there are graves waiting for us all. I was met with utter silence and I left the match.
@@thirdgen377 they're probably too young and naive to accept that they will also turn old and they will also face a day where they take their last breath, it was good that you responded like that, they maybe realised some deep stuff about mortality
My God, I love this.😂 I wish I'd heard of and understood Memento Mori in all my nearly 40 years of spending lots of time avoiding good people whom I wanted to be closer to and interact with, because, out of cowardice, I was adamant about avoiding bullies, narcissists, angry, and abusive people who were sometimes around them giving the good people lots of trouble (now also learning about Courage, and Justice thanks to Stoicism and what Marcus says about those kinds of undesirable people). It's always frustrated me and stressed me out and caused me great feelings of shame, wanting to help others, wanting to be brave against bullies but avoiding them out of fear. It even helps, I've found, to just look at their behavior and THINK *Memento Mori*. They will die, and THIS is how they are spending their time on this Earth?? Belittling and terrorizing others?? Living in rage and hatered?? How incredibly pathetic and sad. Now I don't even stress about them at all. I look at them with pity and simply ignore them and lift up the better people around them who have been knocked down.
@@X3000Chan exactly man, we should be using our time to improve ourselves, help others, and enjoy the time we have, I am blessed to know about mortality and stoicism at 19 years old, many "problems" that my 29 year old sister thinks are "problems" are just silly little inconveniences. But I don't want to force anything on her, just letting things be as they are.
Here’s another one for you I recently lost my brother to leukemia and to prepare myself for his death I purposely watched other people die of cancer some of the same cancer as his some not. I watched a woman tell her story on UA-cam of dying of colon cancer and coming to terms with shitting in a bag for the rest of her life and how it didn’t matter just being alive was enough until she died and I watched it right to the bitter end. Then I watched a man tell a story about dying of leukemia just like my brother. As he was laying in his bed he said how he was going to go buy a brand new Porsche and finance it I laughed so hard with tears in my eyes I’m sure you get my point. I’m so thankful that someone was able to put a label On what it is that I’m feeling and going through and this label was created thousands of years ago it truly is timeless when it comes from within
Ryan, The earthquake at Dad's grave reminds me of the quote in the flick V FOR VENDETTA: " We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught. He can be killed and forgotten. But four hundred years later an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them; and die defending them..."
Awesome very impactfull
I went from several near death experiences as a child/adolescent, then joined a rodeo circuit as a bull rider, joined the Airborne-Airassault Light Infantry and in my twenties went to a very violent CCA prison where death was ubiquitous. Having lived with the threat of death, near death experiences, from early childhood throughout my adulthood til I was almost forty, I went through a moment of parapetio. It was like taking the red pill from the film The Matrix. It alienated me from others having experienced this parapetio awakening y trying to communicate this new understanding w/other only further alienated me. I became drawn to the teachings of Bushido Shoshinshu of the Japanese feudal samurai, Greek teachings of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. Then the teachings of Shamatha Tibetan Buddhism. Ultimately studying the teachings of Christ Jesus. I now live as Christ taught which is very much about living for the eternal y not for the temporal. But it comes with the bonus of eternal life.
Amend
Wonderful
Thank you!
I had a human scull, when I was 13. Someone stole it. It was from my dads second wife’s father who was a dentist. I think that illegal to have now.
My grandfather during his life was always saying, I’m doin 100, if asked how he was doing. Later I learned he wanted to live to 100. On his 100th birthday he said, “! I should have said 103, I could have lived in two centuries. He said it as though he was joking, and expected 103. Unfortunately, all the old, and such shaking his hand at his party, he picked up a bug, that killed him. The pneumonia was knocked out with a shot. However, his throat collapsed and he couldn’t eat good. He would live, one month, and four days more. Momento Mori
“Everyone dies you know”
- kid in Kindergarten Cop
That's deep 😂
“Boys have penises, girls have vaginas”
Kid from KG cop hahah
we never die because we will never know we died!
Sounds somewhat like “ remember man that tho art dust and to dust tho shall return”
Gratitude 🙏🏾
What could be better than this?
If the ancients such as M.A mediated on death and he was one the greats. Imagine how much we have to mediate on it. It's sad, but yet powerful. Sooner or later we all die. This was pretty powerful.
@1:43 This made me laugh. In a good way, and instantly made me feel better about everything. 😆
Learned this young. Much too young that it must not knock you off balance. Not to cross the line of fear.
Dear Daily Stoic - I find your vids very inspiring. May I please suggest however that you keep their duration to under 4 minutes each? Many thanks for listening.
Great work
The Power Of Now - Tolle
"Ultimately, we’re all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men."-- Proximo
I think it's not our own death which scares us but the death of our loved ones.
This is where this like attachment comes in but is it really possible not to get attached.
your conversation with tom bilyeu echoes in eternity lol
Good
The peace my mind was craving
Memento Mori, Peace & Prosperity.
Randy Pauch -the final speech?
That is one way to see it, the other way is to imagine you are about to die, or you already past away (MEMENTO MORI). How different would have you done things in your life? Would you treat your people the same way? Would you manage your time the same way? What would you change if you could?
Like it
Never get stuck living this beautiful life and never get afraid of leaving this beautiful life...life and DEATH both are side of same coin...but we as humans get stuck looking at only 1 side of coin...thank you so much for reminding the other side DEATH🙏
Be precent? you are the gift? ore this moment is a gift? what meaning do you want to give it? Life gift you this moment ? What is Life? How deep on the rabithole do I want to go? ore Just be in complete awhearness on this moment: " Momentums Mori" focus on the now?
Marissa Peers n u are my favorite life saver
Hey dude could you put this, most life changing Marcus Aureilous and your 12 stoic lessons on Spotify as a podcast? So I can play it in my car on the way to work.
great video
🖤
4 years since this video came out….4 more will pass, then 4 more after that…. And 4 more after that… forever.
Awareness on awareness is now.
Momento mori.
"This is Water" David Foster Wallace
What microphones are you all using in this recording?
I fight it the same
Don't waste this day
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Memento Mori
Didn’t even hear a single word he said. I’m high as fuck. Perfected stillness.
Which books can you suggest to me on Stoics ..let me know down here. One love
dailystoic.com/stoic-reading-list/
@daily stoic Appreciated
How about for people who have suicidal thoughts?? Like every single day, every minute thinking to end life. What kinda reminder that works ?
We'll die. Enjoy our precious life :)
In my opinion we all need to correctly consider death for living , happy , calm and strong and......
From the moment of conception we are literally living and dying at the same time. Shrodingers (sp?) Cat.
Proper portion or learn it!
💪🏼
New upload from www.jawameditation.com
Ancient knowledge from Java
Discussion Series 4
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4.02 - Brain
4.03 - Extra Terrestrial
4.04 - Mortality
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Happy reading to everyone
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Someone: happy birth...
Me: mEMeNtO MoRI
Someone: ...day...
Stillness is Key is hilarious with Gary V given he is nonstop and likely never still. Haha
What's the song at the end?
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we shall die.
Accept death and death loses its potency
What if i feel like the death would be the best thing that could happened to me.
I feel like i am paralyzed. I can not make any decision. Can even know what I want.
I hope the tomb stone isnt stolen? How do u think they get them? I dont think u just walk along and one day find a peice of tomb stone, people go raiding the cemetary, sorry i do love your videos so much, i just to be argumentatitve lol
it's rude that that guy shuts Ryan off by telling him ''WEIRD SHIT'' to his tombstone story, it means more to Ryan than just ''WEIRD SHIT'' but he doesn't feel offended by it, i do, i guess i need some more work to do in me, Love ur content Ryan .
Every second that passes is death. How nice is that.
Where does Stoic Philosophy come from? Is it Greek?
We really are all the same. #1. We are born. 2. And then we die. Period.
"How can you enjoy it...."
But does this mantra make people avoidant?