TurquoiseB wrote: > > Societal standards for morality might not neces- > sarily have anything to do with genuine ethics.
So true. But then again, societal standards for morality *may* have something to do with genuine ethics. So let's do two things: study moral behavior among spiritual seekers, and question whether that moral behavior is all it's cracked up to be. - Patrick Gillam An aside: Fundamentalists like to talk about absolute standards for moral behavior. But the relativists among us, pussies that we are, aren't comfortable with such absolutes. So we derive an entire morality based on admitting *we don't really know* what's right! Which to me is a better basis for moral behavior. Like a doctor who is conservative in her treatments because her first goal is to do no harm, I must tread lightly in my judgments because (1) what do I know? and (2) judging is the ego's way of propping itself up, so any judging is inherently problematic. Again, silly mind games. But one of the things I've taken away from discussions in this forum in the past few years is this respect for the limits of my knowledge. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
