--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Different states of consciousness may lead to > > > > different levels of > > > > ethics. > > > > > > > > MMY's point about an enlightened person behaving > > in > > > > a life-supportive > > > > way has nuances: in CC, one doesn't act in a way > > > > that harms one's own > > > > evolution. In higher states, this holds true as > > > > well, but one's > > > > perception of what defines "self" becomes more > > > > encompassing and > > > > presumably one's behavior reflects this. > > > > > > I used to believe the above, but I doubt it now. I see > > > our ethics as more a reflection of our internalized > > > cultural practices and our own relative nature. We > > > don't like MMY's business ethics, but, as has been > > > noted in previous posts, this is how things are > > > done in India. But on the other hand...... > > > > But does this mean that different states of > > consciousness do NOT lead to different ethics? > > I don't think so. Ethics are in the domain of > behavior. Different states of of consciousness will > give rise to different experiences of self/object. The > TMO has always related "higher levels of > consciousness" with increased moral behavior,
"Moral/ethical" by what standards? And in what time frame? Would it be "moral" to kill an infant who, if it had been allowed to live, would have grown up to be a mass murderer? If you take seriously Krishna's "Unfathomable is the course of action" in the Gita, it adds a whole 'nother dimension to the question of what's right and what's wrong. To have any standards of behavior at all in that context, you have to restrict the time frame to what human beings are capable of foreseeing; and then you also run into the problem that ethics/ morality changes over time, often even within a human lifetime; and it also varies from place to place. If the Self is timeless and nonlocal, what does it mean to say of one who has realized the Self that he or she behaves ethically (or not)? > but the > research is pretty weak in this area. I just don't > know. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
