Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there
Rumi
 
Many of us carry the heavy weight of blame - pointing fingers at others, ourselves, or even life itself. And sometimes, we're burdened by guilt for things completely out of our control. This talk explores an important question: how can we release the need for judgment and assigning fault, while still remaining fully accountable for our actions and our lives? 
 
Join us to discover how letting go of blame can lighten the load of the past and help us to create a positive future.  
 
Speaker: Marcelo Bulk has been associated with the Brahma Kumaris for over 40 years and is the National Co-ordinator of the University’s activities in Colombia. He has worked as a business consultant and facilitator with several major companies in Latin America, Asia and Europe and is currently associated with the Union Consulting Group in Colombia and the Oxford Leadership Academy (UK).  Marcelo lectures internationally on topics related to self-leadership, human values and meditation and is the author of The Pathway towards Leadership published in Spanish and Portuguese.

No-one is to Blame - Marcelo Bulk  - Thursday 25th September 2025

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand's book The Virtue of Selfishness, in particular the chapter "The Ethics of Emergencies"

This focuses specifically on her discussion about what an emergency is, why bad ethics results from taking emergency cases as normative, and when one ought to be willing to risk one's own life or values for during an emergency

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Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness - Ethics of Emergencies - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand's book The Virtue of Selfishness, in particular the chapter "The Objectivist Ethics"

This focuses specifically on her discussion of how love and friendship are properly understood selfish or self-centered relations to other people

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Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness - Love and Friendship as Selfish - Sadler's Lectures

"True Virtue" • Rev. Robert Golding (First CRC Artesia)

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century rational egoist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand's book, The Virtue Of Selfishness. It focuses specifically upon her discussion of the virtues she recognizes - rationality, productivity, pride, independence, integrity, honesty, and justice.


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Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness - Values and Virtues - Sadler's Lectures

This is the recording of my short presentation and the Q&A at the second Conversations With Modern Stoicism event, hosted in July 2023 by Phil Yanov. Asked to give a short and provocative presentation about an issue that arises in the everyday applications of Stoicism, I chose to focus on a common mistake and distortion of Stoic philosophy and practice.

Quite a few people think that Stoicism means that a person shouldn't exhibit or feel care, concern, or compassion for others who experience something that they view and react to as "bad". There are indeed some passages from Stoic authors that one can take out of context to justify such a stance. But when Stoicism is rightly understood, and when we look at other, equally authoritative passages, we see that the authentic Stoic position is to be compassionate and concerned with others.

How Should Stoics Respond When Bad Things Happen To Other People - Sadler's Lectures

This is a talk I was invited to provide to the inaugural 2021 Stoicon-X Military conference, held online.  I chose as my topic the scope of genuine courage, a topic of considerable importance but also frequent misunderstandings within professions like that of the military.  

In this talk I discuss what courage is and what it is for, the scope of courage, including its constituent virtues, and finally the relationship between courage and the other virtues.

The Scope of Genuine Courage In Stoicism - Sadler's Lectures

This is the recording of my invited talk at the first Stoicon-X Brasil online conference.  Due to technical issues, I provided a live presentation (translation provided by participants) to the conference.  In this presentation, I briefly present the Stoic doctrine of the indifferents (adiaphoria), namely that Stoics view many things as neither good nor bad, but are indifferent.  Some indifferents may be "preferred" or "rejected", which means that they have some positive or negative value, but not the sort of that makes us virtuous or vicious, happy or miserable.

The Stoics teach that we should not be entirely indifferent to the indifferents, for several important reasons.  The use (khresis or usus) of indifferents is not something indifferent, and as Epictetus tells us, is something we ought to be careful about.  The virtues, as Seneca and Cicero clarify, bear upon indifferents.

Texts mentioned in this talk:
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - https://amzn.to/3osPFNF
Epictetus' Discourses and Enchiridion - https://amzn.to/37G6bE0
Seneca's Letters - https://amzn.to/3dZQrNk
Cicero's On The Ends - https://amzn.to/3mmgJMB

Why Stoics Should Not Be Indifferent to the Indifferents - Sadler's Lectures

Patience

fool me twice-BabyCash(onevirtue x stxndos) (unreleased)

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