I think ethics are naturally intrinsic within wisdom its like if you see it as a race you'll do what you need to get ahead but if you see it all as a beautiful dance than you'll do your best to support other people in appreciation of the whole thing
In many ways I agree with you - but the idea that simply seeing something a certain way will always lead to a more peaceful society might be more poetic than true.
In Brian Victoria's Book "Zen War Stories", he lays out the ways in which Zen masters were complicit in the atrocities committed by the Japanese in WWII. He makes a pretty convincing case for the idea that the concept of emptiness, without an external framework of ethics (such as monastic rules of the Vinaya) can in the end be extremely destructive. Of course, it doesn't work out that way every time, but the potential is there. The simple realization (or the impression of the realization) that conventional reality is not what it seems does not really appear to be a guarantee......
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Intelligence is how to play the game
Wisdom is knowing it is a game
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but where are the ethics?
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its like if you see it as a race you'll do what you need
to get ahead but if you see it all as a beautiful dance
than you'll do your best to support other people
in appreciation of the whole thing
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In Brian Victoria's Book "Zen War Stories", he lays out the ways in which Zen masters were complicit in the atrocities committed by the Japanese in WWII. He makes a pretty convincing case for the idea that the concept of emptiness, without an external framework of ethics (such as monastic rules of the Vinaya) can in the end be extremely destructive. Of course, it doesn't work out that way every time, but the potential is there. The simple realization (or the impression of the realization) that conventional reality is not what it seems does not really appear to be a guarantee......
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