"Buddha spoke of Right Judgment as a skill we were only just beginning to develop. Buddha was forecasting that we were approaching a time when we would assume self-responsibility. It wasn’t until we developed the ability to reason, using our Mind Soul, that we could judge for ourselves what was good and what was bad. It is the voice of conscience that speaks to us about what is good and what is evil. Apparently a search of the literature of 2000 years ago reveals that this word ‘conscience’ was not in the language. In Greco-Roman times when we did something bad we would clairvoyantly see the Furies tormenting us. So the inner voice of conscience was just developing when Buddha placed the emphasis on Right View and Right Judgment. Then Christ came to replace the outer law and the Furies with inner responsibility and conscience. Now we place everything on the scales of conscience to balance right and wrong. Here we stand 2,000 years along the path and we must ask: how far have we come towards knowing what IS actually right and wrong?" From Chapter 2 amazon/AM-Souls-Heartbeat-Volume-Eightfold/dp/0975008358
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:45:19 +0000
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