Hi Joe, It's all analogy - biology, chemistry, emotions - all the way down,,, when named. Amazing. Tonight is E-minor, blue - diamonds and rust. I need to cry, but can't.
So MU. Marsha On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: > Hi Steve, Marsha and all, > > > Between "external duty, and internal duty" seems to encompass everything. > Perhaps, viewing emotions as DQ places them beyond internal duty? When > emotions are defined SQ, they cease to be emotions. Emotions cannot be > defined as DQ since DQ in itself is indefinable. Emotions are a different > name in biology for DQ. > > Joe > > > On 7/13/11 8:14 AM, "Steven Peterson" <[email protected]> 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 repealed by legislation.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 ___ 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
