[MD] Does Lila have free will?

[MarshaV]

Hi Joe,

It's all analogy - biology, chemistry, emotions - all the way down,,, when named.  
Amazing.  Tonight is E-minor, blue - diamonds and rust.  I need to cry, but can't.  

So MU.   


Marsha 




On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote:

> Hi Steve, Marsha and all,
> 
> 
> Between "external duty, and internal duty" seems to encompass everything.
> Perhaps, viewing emotions as DQ places them beyond internal duty?  When
> emotions are defined SQ, they cease to be emotions.  Emotions cannot be
> defined as DQ since DQ in itself is indefinable.  Emotions are a different
> name in biology for DQ.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On 7/13/11 8:14 AM, "Steven Peterson" <peterson.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Marsha,
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> I just don't get the insistence on MY free-will.  As far as the
>> ethical considerations, these statements make the most sense to me.
>>> 
>>> "Dharma, like rta, means 'what holds together.' It is the basis of all order.
>>> It equals righteousness. It is the ethical code. It is the stable condition
>>> which gives man perfect satisfaction.
>>> 
>>> "Dharma is duty. It is not external duty which is arbitrarily imposed by
>>> others. It is not any artificial set of conventions which can be amended or
>>> repealed by legislation. Neither is it internal duty which is arbitrarily
>>> decided by one's own conscience. Dharma is beyond all questions of what is
>>> internal and what is external. Dharma is Quality itself, the principle of
>>> 'rightness' which gives structure and purpose to the evolution of all life
>>> and to the evolving understanding of the universe which life has created."
>>> 
>>>        (LILA, Chapter 30)
>>> 
>>> So MU.
>> 
>> 
>> Steve:
>> NIce job digging up this quote. I love how it specifically backs our
>> point that dropping internal/external considerations like SOM free
>> will/determism do not negate moral structure and purpose. It is
>> irrelevant to duty--what dmb surely means by moral responsibility.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Steve



 
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