[MD] absorbing the immoral

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[Ian]
I thought there was a reference to this in list posts from the past week or two, but can't find it. Regardless, I'm looking for something from Lila, which concerned (this is paraphrasing) absorbing something which was immoral, and not passing it on (as a high form of morality). Does this ring a bell with anyone? If so, where in Lila can it be found? Many thanks,

[Arlo]
I think the passage you are referring to occurs at the end of page 398 in the hardcover edition:

"If you take all this karmic garbage and make yourself feel better by passing it on to others that's normal. That's the way the world works. But if you manage to absorb it and not pass it on, that's the highest moral conduct of all. That really advances everything, not just you. The whole world. If you look at the lives of some of the great moral figures of history-Christ, Lincoln, Gandhi, and others­ you'll see that that's what they were really involved in, the cleansing of the world through the absorption of karmic garbage. They didn't pass it on. Their followers sometimes did, but they didn't." (Pirsig, LILA)