For example, the significance of anatta, the doctrine of no-self, involves an awareness only gained by the practice of mindfulness. In turn mindfulness makes us increasingly aware of the heedlessness of much of our thoughts and actions. In this way, Right Speech, Action and Livelihood gain a practical significance that we can illustrate from reflection on our experience. Ignorance ceases to be a question of lack of theoretical knowledge, we can put our finger on exactly when it has determined the way we have behaved. Furthermore, we begin to realize that the view of ourselves that has prompted such actions(composed of desire and aversion) is the delusion that has ensures its unsatisfactory state of affairs is maintained and replayed. I love my children, but I still behave to them in an inadequate and unskillful way. The goal of Buddhist ethics is to change this behavior, to refine it, by increasing my capacity to create harmony and peacefulness in relations with myself and others. Clive Erricker
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:01:52 +0000
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