Hi Marsha, Marsha: I just don't get the insistence on MY free-will. As far as the ethical considerations, these statements make the most sense to me. > > "Dharma, like rta, means 'what holds together.' It is the basis of all order. > It equals righteousness. It is the ethical code. It is the stable condition > which gives man perfect satisfaction. > > "Dharma is duty. It is not external duty which is arbitrarily imposed by > others. It is not any artificial set of conventions which can be amended or > repealed by legislation. Neither is it internal duty which is arbitrarily > decided by one's own conscience. Dharma is beyond all questions of what is > internal and what is external. Dharma is Quality itself, the principle of > 'rightness' which gives structure and purpose to the evolution of all life > and to the evolving understanding of the universe which life has created." > > (LILA, Chapter 30) > > So MU.
Steve: NIce job digging up this quote. I love how it specifically backs our point that dropping internal/external considerations like SOM free will/determism do not negate moral structure and purpose. It is irrelevant to duty--what dmb surely means by moral responsibility. Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
