Our relationships and our ethics
Our intimate relationships with family, friends, and life partners are the foundations of an ethical life...The challenges of marriage are many, but the rewards are great. In forcing you to connect with your humanness, marriage can give you an identity not determined by the sometimes inhumane demands of the worlds outside the hearth. Bell, Derrick (2003). Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth. #relationships #values
On Meditation, Mystical Experience and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
Buddhist meditational experience of nature's independent non-duality has parallels in mystical experiences of "unity" in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But while such states are undoubtedly blissful, dwelling in their powerful intensity is also dangerous. Egoism and subjectivism too often deafen those who have such experiences to the nature world around them. Imagination too easily spins out ignorant tales and orthodoxies, too uncritically fancies that the world's winds bl