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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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OfflineFractalated
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The Way of Life
    #5949206 - 08/09/06 11:16 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I had a rather lengthy discussion with my old philosophy instructor the other week, and we got to talking about morality and how to live life. He was very insistent that there is a right way and a wrong way of life.

This got me thinking, that again it all boils down to perspective. From the perspective of relative truth, there is a right way (the eightfold path or whatever other name you use) and a wrong way of life. But from the perspective of absolute truth, there is no 'right' or 'wrong'.

But if from the perspective of Truth, there is no right and no wrong, then why does it matter if you act in accordance with the eightfold path or not, relatively speaking?


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"Now that the principalities and the powers stockpile weapons of mass destruction, contaminate the earth with their feverish industry, release floods of images to trigger insatiable desires, treat animals and humans as commodities and functions of a market, the devil must be grinning from ear to ear."


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Re: The Way of Life [Re: Fractalated]
    #5949306 - 08/09/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

If there is no right or wrong as you say, maybe be about assessing your own personal right and wrong with whats desirable and undesirable

lets say your mother, sister, or girlfriend gets assaulted, then raped, I doubt your going to conclude this as a neutral occurrence, I'll imagine you'd be quite disturbed, and convicted in rectifying the situation, with maybe even thoughts of revenge, who knows,

but would I idly sit there an say with no emotion or being impartial to that situation because I know there is no right or wrong, but just what is,

I'd be definitely be affected, and most likely negatively, and to me this is the definition of wrong, when someone has violated your life, you being innocent of any karma of this life time, gets interjected by someone elses life, and you get effected in such a negative way, that it pretty much ruins much of your happy human existence,


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Re: The Way of Life [Re: capliberty]
    #5949323 - 08/09/06 11:40 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Interesting point.


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Re: The Way of Life [Re: Fractalated]
    #5949462 - 08/10/06 12:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I think you should check out the Tao. It's very short, ~80 but half the pages are used. I just made a post about the Tao because you subject reminded me of it.


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: The Way of Life [Re: Cracka_X]
    #5949509 - 08/10/06 01:02 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah man, it's an awe inspiring read. But one day I was wondering what exactly the Tao is. I know "The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao", but I read about other philosophies in the area, and in Buddhism, there is the concept of emptiness. That the absolute nature of all things is emptiness, nothing has any inherent reality.

If you use emptiness instead of Tao, then it makes a lot more sense. But I suppose that's just semantics.


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