“Seeing alone carries us to greater levels of moral development. Through
seeing, by and by, we need not live merely by rules. Indeed, to completely
mature morally as human beings, we must learn to operate in a place where rules
will often be insufficient.
“The saint simply lives by seeing. When we meet such a person, we’re
sometimes awestruck. We see what they do, and then we start to write down the
rules that seem to describe it. It looks like we ought to not lie, not steal,
not kill, and so forth.
“Yes, the saintly person doesn’t lie, we’ve noticed. But why don’t they?
Is it because they think it’s against the rules? Because they think it’s evil?
Because they fear punishment? Because they don’t want to look bad in the eyes
of others? Not really. Rather, they avoid lying, stealing, and killing
because they see the natural repercussions of such behavior. They see that it
leads to confusion, to suffering --- to duhkha. They don’t do it because they
see the Whole scene.
(Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, pp. 087-088)
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
