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Re: The Merit Thread READ PHILOSOPHICAL DAODEJINGFrom: rex
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-12-05 10:10:21
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MessageMichael,
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What a ghastly view. I don't think all card carrying buddhists hold to this. Others teach that we are born through ignorance and the non-recognition of the clear light nature of mind. To paraphrase Mike Dickman's translation of a dzogchen text this mind is the 'primordial and unborn source of awareness, empty in essence, radiant by nature, whose energy is all pervading'. With recognition there is liberation for even the greatest of sinners.
I see merit in more terms of the Catholic idea of sin as state of separation. Certain actions and ways of being will automatically put one in particular states of relationship. The merit is just the effects on one's state of being and its consequent positive effect on the quality of those relationships. Of course doing the right thing for the wrong reason isn't merit per se but on a more mundane level it does form a veneer of civilised behaviour as the basis of social etiquette.
Rex
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