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Take Ownership
They say charity starts at home, and this is true. Charity is a virtue. If you are unwilling to return any good to the world, you obstruct any potential for the furtherance of that good. So eat the apple, plant the seeds. Eat the bread, pay the farmer. Receive help from your community. Help those…
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Self Respect and Justice
Shall we focus on specifics of virtue? Self-respect is a virtue. Without self-respect we cannot understand the reasoning behind any arguments that tell us we should respect others. Self-respect doesn’t have to be taught. Children may not have the set of behaviours we call dignified, but they do naturally respect their own presence and intentions…
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Blind Passion is the Root of Suffering
Virtue is the only path to feeling good. As humans we move away from pressure, why? To preserve virtue, even to the point of applying pressure to preserve their own virtue. It does not feel good. So it’s safe to say all creatures main goal is to “feel good.” But there are many false ways to…
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Moral Excellence
Today we are talking about virtue. I will open with a question. What is virtue? I think it is something to do with truth but I can’t actually define virtue. A character held in high regard. It’s a feeling of goodness maybe. Hard to describe, no? Do we get the word virtual from virtue? As…
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Role of Guide
I think we can be guides to each other. We don’t need to be supreme beings to learn and teach. Yes, indeed. The role of guide used to exist. We rejected it with the rise of the age of reason/science/progress. Like the obesity epidemic? We are bombarded with health information yet still have obesity. We…
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Okay to Engage
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: The vitality of life is only experienced in moments that remind us of the vital components of being alive. To really live we must remain continually engaged, not with the most abstract concerns we conjure up…
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Ritual Awakening
In the mysteries, the officiating member or psychopomp often “costumes” themselves as an archetypal figure. They dress their presence in the form of the spirit that brings their society together even though it isn’t their singular, individual identity as a person. This is why you hear of “black masses” always being attended by a mysterious…
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Use the Vision
We create mini-dramas accidentally in the virtual world of Second Life, reflexively, instinctively. This is why people so often report that Second Life has changed their real life radically. Sociologists are even studying virtual worlds now for this reason. Second Life has given me a powerful voice that I now use in first life. We have…
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In every practice you find a shadow. But purity is not reviling any part of life.
Could our understanding of consciousness and soul evolution suggest that plants and trees are repositories of ancient wisdom? How might…