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Re: Knowledge, Wisdom, Virtue et cetera
« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2021, 05:56:17 pm »
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All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Is there need for lengthy explanation?
Childish beings look out for themselves;
Buddhas labor for the good of others:
See the difference that divides them!

From chapter 8 of Shantideva's Guide for Bodhisattvas.
Truth is against the stream of common thought, deep, subtle, difficult, delicate, unseen by passion’s slaves cloaked in the murk of ignorance. Vipassī Buddha

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« Reply #26 on: May 15, 2021, 05:59:58 pm »
St Paul letter to Romans:

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12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2021, 10:52:36 pm »
Rav Miller on three Torahs, based on Sefer Yetzira, an oral tradition from Abraham:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3kcsuQJtv4&t=332s
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Re: Knowledge, Wisdom, Virtue et cetera
« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2021, 04:42:14 am »
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Science, once the anchor of the salvation of Truth, has ceased to be
the temple of naked Fact. Almost to a man the Scientists strive now only
to force upon their colleagues and the public the acceptance of some
personal hobby, of some new-fangled theory, which will shed lustre on
their name and fame. A Scientist is as ready to suppress damaging
evidence against a current scientific hypothesis in our times [1888],
as a missionary in heathen-land, or a preacher at home.

Blavatsky
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« Reply #29 on: May 18, 2021, 12:40:56 pm »
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Who meditates oppression, his dwelling is overturned.

Babylonian Hymn to Samas.
Truth is against the stream of common thought, deep, subtle, difficult, delicate, unseen by passion’s slaves cloaked in the murk of ignorance. Vipassī Buddha

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« Reply #30 on: May 18, 2021, 12:50:01 pm »
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Men were brought into existence for the sake of men, that they might do one another good.

Cicero
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« Reply #31 on: May 25, 2021, 05:38:31 pm »
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197. Ah, how happily we live,
Without hatred among those who hate!
Without hatred we dwell
Among people who hate.

198. Ah, how happily we live,
Healthy among the sick!
Healthy we dwell
Among people who are sick.

199. Ah, how happily we live,
Carefree among the careworn!
Carefree we dwell
Among people who are careworn.

Buddha, from Happiness chapter of Dhammapada.
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« Reply #32 on: May 27, 2021, 11:57:57 pm »
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Don’t be judgmental about people. Don’t pass judgment on people. Those who pass judgment on people harm themselves. I, or someone like me, may pass judgment on people.

Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya 6:44
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« Reply #33 on: June 03, 2021, 02:35:12 pm »
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What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business, possessed of great wealth, in which all citizens had a right to share... Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result...If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.

Edith Hamilton (d. 1963)
Truth is against the stream of common thought, deep, subtle, difficult, delicate, unseen by passion’s slaves cloaked in the murk of ignorance. Vipassī Buddha