- Definition: Some things are up to us, while other things are not.
- Example: In our control - decisions and behaviours (provided we are mentally healthy); not in our control - circumstances and other people's thoughts and actions.
- Insight: Most things are not really in our control.
- Insight: Death is not under our control, but how we think about death is under our control.
- Insight: We can make choices, select goals, and strategies but we cannot determine the results or other factors that might reveal themselves.
- Principle: Practice non-attachment to things and people.
- Principle: Be concerned with what is under your control, treat everything else with composure.