About Socrates – His main message and Gautama Siddhartha’s similar message.

 Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living. 

 Can be translated as: Living without contemplating life is meaningless.

 Socrates was careful to emphasize the importance of first and foremost considering the well-being of the true self (he used the word soul) and not caring so much about the person’s current life. 

 Throughout his life, he worked according to this principle. This is obvious from Plato’s dialogue “Apology”.

 Gautama Siddhartha’s (Buddha’s) message meant basically the same thing. It is important to, in accordance with the Law of Karma: Draw lessons, with the help of your Human Nature, that improve the karma of your Buddha-Nature.

 It was, according to Socrates, with the help of the Socratic midwife method that the individual should “contemplate life”.

 I summarize the messages to: Your life as a human being should be set up so that you (your true self) use yourself (your true self) of your human identity (your false self) to improve the karma of your true self. This also means that your human self willingly submits to your true (eternal) self.

 I recommend Bettany Hughes’ video (1 hour long) about Socrates. Socrates’ life’s work and his message are clarified in this video.

Listen at least starting at 43 minutes into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05xZMAfQ30

Todd

Also check: 

https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2016/03/about-socrates-and-his-attitude-to.html