Hi James, I enjoyed your pondering about vice & virtue very much. The past weeks I listened to the recordings of ‘Peace Week’ and I believe many people are moving on the ‘heart of paradox’ continuum towards supporting whole~heartedly life. The destructiveness of life denying values is becoming too obvious.
For me beauty, truth and kindness is close to the ‘heart of paradox’ that is at the centre of every creation, while vices & virtues are culturally defined terms and change with fashion.
Globally humankind has to expand beyond polarities to have a chance to ‘upgrade’ our consciousness. How I visualise it are expanding circles of awareness that go beyond right & wrong and so set them in context of the whole.
Are these values, attitudes, actions, beliefs, ideas etc. life affirming or life destroying for the whole? K~now~ing that life is what happens between birth & death as part of the cycle of Creation.
Lovely mOnika, Yes, I'm all for the continuum towards supporting whole-heartedly life and moving on the "heart of paradox"
I feel strongly that each individual has the capability to expand their awareness when they are willing to do so. This will then influence broader community, as well as global community. Polarization has been so heavy in recent years, so we must do what we can to mitigate that from continuing to happen so intensely.
Hi James, I enjoyed your pondering about vice & virtue very much. The past weeks I listened to the recordings of ‘Peace Week’ and I believe many people are moving on the ‘heart of paradox’ continuum towards supporting whole~heartedly life. The destructiveness of life denying values is becoming too obvious.
For me beauty, truth and kindness is close to the ‘heart of paradox’ that is at the centre of every creation, while vices & virtues are culturally defined terms and change with fashion.
Globally humankind has to expand beyond polarities to have a chance to ‘upgrade’ our consciousness. How I visualise it are expanding circles of awareness that go beyond right & wrong and so set them in context of the whole.
Are these values, attitudes, actions, beliefs, ideas etc. life affirming or life destroying for the whole? K~now~ing that life is what happens between birth & death as part of the cycle of Creation.
Lovely mOnika, Yes, I'm all for the continuum towards supporting whole-heartedly life and moving on the "heart of paradox"
I feel strongly that each individual has the capability to expand their awareness when they are willing to do so. This will then influence broader community, as well as global community. Polarization has been so heavy in recent years, so we must do what we can to mitigate that from continuing to happen so intensely.