On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Steven Peterson wrote: > 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 repealed by legislation.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 >
Hi Steve, It is a good quote, and I think it also points to the caring that John wrote about. For me the way not to be controlled by static patterns is through attentive awareness/mindfulness where the right thing to do seems mostly to flow naturally. Marsha ___ 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
