[MD] The Beginning of it All

[MarshaV]

At 04:14 PM 3/8/2008, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>There is mundane morality.  "Man (She holds her nose as she writes
>the word.) is the measure of all things."  The MOQ has produced an
>intellectual structure on which to make moral decisions.   Ahh, but
>then there is Quality, the undifferentiated aesthetic continuum, the
>Tao, the ALL which cannot be undesirable and is perfect, good and
>moral as it is.  The mundane (good and bad) is also this Quality and
>is therefore perfect, good and moral.  Or as Dwai states, "... cannot
>possibly be undesirable."
>
>[Krimel]
>Isn't desire the root of all evil for Buddhists? Is Dwai saying in effect
>the 'all that is' is evil? Or that good is evil? Is this one of those koanic
>paradoxes or should I go kill my dog?
>

Arf!  Arf!  Arf!  I would think (arf!) desire on the mundane level is 
undersirable.







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