You are correct. Idea's about what is right and wrong are highly subjective.yothu wrote:I am Chief of Staff of a McDonald's subsidiary. My motives are clearly good for me - and I truly feel that way - as I provide food for hungry fellows (my good action).
Some will not agree with me that my actions are good despite the fact that my motives could be. Some won't even agree with me that my motives are good. Yet, I am convinced I am absolutely doing right.
That's a trivial problem I see with ethics. What might be good for me might not for anybody else and vice versa. That's the reason why I think it is not an easy task to set "basic rules" for a group of people that want to live together. (I'm not really working at McDonald's)
Yes, that is what he means. Trance, a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep. The ending of trance is often called 'waking up'.yothu wrote:He, Stephen Wolinsky, relates "trance" to "sleep" in this ^ context, do I understand correctly? Just like the kind of trance that you're in when you're in a shopping mall or watching sales t.v. and some commercials, right?Alisima wrote:The 'trance-ending' is not mine, it is Stephen Wolinsky's toy. It comes from transcending. It describes the working of transcending. Namely to end a trance.
If you were to end the trance of delusion and ignorance and thus transcend them, you will become enlightened. However, you can only speak of enlightenment if there is delusion and ignorance, for how can there be transcendence when there is no object to be transcended?? In other words, there is no enlightenment by the time you have reached it.
I am wondering, what books of stephen have you read?? Did you also knew that stephen was 'disciple' of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a pivotal character in the Advaita Vedanta (non-duality)?? For anyone who is interested, I have one of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj books available in html for free.