When is the last time, you will do what you are about to do? Whatever that is, there will be a last time, and most of the time, you do not know when that last time is. That is the essence of the Stoic last-time meditation: to internalize and accept the reality that whatever you are about to do may be the last time. With this realization, the activity at hand can become an object of meditation and gratitude. Meditation as whole-body presence in the current activity. Gratitude as the feeling of full acceptance and reverence toward your small stature in front of the size and impact of nature and the abundant world of activities and options that exist. The by-product of the last time meditation may be an enhanced sense of joy and bliss at reality as is, without identifying with the thoughts of wanting more typical of hedonic adaptation. The argument against last time meditation may be a sense of elaborate pessimism for the human condition and the lack of beauty in one’s existence and the surrounding environment. Either way, that is the Stoic last-time meditation. |