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# Parallels with Buddhism

There are a lot of similarities in thinking and meditations by practioners of Stoicism and Buddhist's teachings such as,

* [Eight Wordly Concerns](/buddhism/theravada/eight-worldly-concerns.md)
* [Vipassana](/mindfullness/meditation/vipassana.md)

An essay from Prof. Massimo Pigliucci on the same subject - [Rationally Speaking: Buddhism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism](https://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/02/buddhism-epicureanism-and-stoicism.html).