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Scale of goodness (one leads to the other):
Patience > Acceptance > Compassion > Giving (Helping)
Scale of wrongfulness (one leads to the other):
Impatience > Control > Apathy > Taking (Abuse)
Originally posted by mysticnoon
reply to post by arpgme
The highest good, I believe, is putting the self aside.
When we put the self aside, then love arises automatically.
However, putting the self aside is not easy, so in the meantime, practice patience and understanding.
Originally posted by RobertF
Being true to ones self, is the "highest good".
Be who you are and accept responsibility for your actions or inactions.edit on 8-5-2013 by RobertF because: to add info
Originally posted by Hopechest
Originally posted by mysticnoon
reply to post by arpgme
The highest good, I believe, is putting the self aside.
When we put the self aside, then love arises automatically.
However, putting the self aside is not easy, so in the meantime, practice patience and understanding.
That is incorrect and Buddha explained this when he talked about desire. If a person no longer wants anything for themself they will not desire to be good therefore a person should never put themself aside to sacrifice for others.
Out of caring for oneself it creates the desire to help others, without desire of wanting to help someone you won't. Therefor yourself is the most important.
Originally posted by mysticnoon
Originally posted by Hopechest
Originally posted by mysticnoon
reply to post by arpgme
The highest good, I believe, is putting the self aside.
When we put the self aside, then love arises automatically.
However, putting the self aside is not easy, so in the meantime, practice patience and understanding.
That is incorrect and Buddha explained this when he talked about desire. If a person no longer wants anything for themself they will not desire to be good therefore a person should never put themself aside to sacrifice for others.
Out of caring for oneself it creates the desire to help others, without desire of wanting to help someone you won't. Therefor yourself is the most important.
I do not follow this line of reasoning.
If we put aside our own desires and wants, then our innermost nature - which I believe is love - will manifest itself without desiring it or wanting it. It is who we are, in essence. There is no calculation involved, only love.
Originally posted by mysticnoon
Originally posted by Hopechest
Originally posted by mysticnoon
reply to post by arpgme
The highest good, I believe, is putting the self aside.
When we put the self aside, then love arises automatically.
However, putting the self aside is not easy, so in the meantime, practice patience and understanding.
That is incorrect and Buddha explained this when he talked about desire. If a person no longer wants anything for themself they will not desire to be good therefore a person should never put themself aside to sacrifice for others.
Out of caring for oneself it creates the desire to help others, without desire of wanting to help someone you won't. Therefor yourself is the most important.
I do not follow this line of reasoning.
If we put aside our own desires and wants, then our innermost nature - which I believe is love - will manifest itself without desiring it or wanting it. It is who we are, in essence. There is no calculation involved, only love.
Originally posted by eletheia
# TRUTH #
I know many people who's lives have been turned upside down and have been devastated
by the LIES of others
Originally posted by Bybyots
Surely the sun, upon which all depends, is the highest good.
2nd
How cells manage to survive without the Sun
You ask specifically about those animals that live in the deep dark of rock or sea. These creatures, over millions of years, evolved to use energy supplied from our planet rather than our sun.
There are many creatures at the bottom of the Sea that never see the sun and live just fine. Or they live in pools of water deep underground in a cave and survive in total isolation.