--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > <snip> > > That lecture you downloaded yesterday, the section on > > enlightenment and assholes, touches nicely on this topic and how > > people (e.g. Adi Da, Chogyam Trungpa) use it to commit the most > > unethical acts. As Ken put's it rather nicely, while ethics are > > insufficient for enlightenment, you will not be able to sustain > > enlightenment without them. > > But what is considered ethical varies widely and changes > constantly. Where do you find an unchanging standard?
As the term is generally used in Buddhism, ethics comes from within and never changes; it implies a sensitivity to one's own internal "meter" of right and wrong. What is external and changes from time to time and country to country is morality. Ethics and morality are not the same. Codes of behavior established by society or religion are thought of as falling into the realm of morality, *not* ethics. Just FYI. ------------------------ 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/
