David Chapman
I hoped that after taking a week off from the “ethics in mindfulness meditation” debate, it would all make sense. pic.twitter.com/YZpCTM2XQ8
Jayarava जयरव 勝鳴
@Meaningness The primary importance of all systems of ethics is as a point of leverage to enforce group norms.
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@Jayarava Yes… In the case of “Consensus Buddhism,” the norms are mainstream American leftish norms. This gets called “Buddhist ethics…” - View other replies
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@Jayarava I don’t have much quarrel with the norms, but the pretense that they are Buddhist rubs me the wrong way. - View other replies
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@Meaningness well... Buddhist ethics *do* have a definite content - e.g. pañcasīla, dasakusalakammapatha etc. - View other replies
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@Meaningness And a definite rationale (or two) - View other replies
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@Meaningness The main rationale of Buddhist ethics is to obtain a better rebirth. That is at the forefront especially for laypeople. - View other replies
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@Meaningness For full-time meditators it helps to make the mind amenable to concentrated states, culminating in the experience of cessation. -
@Jayarava Yes… so, in many contexts, “sila” is better translated “pre-meditative practice discipline” than ethics. -
@Meaningness you may have seen me distinguish between sīla (ethics) and saṃvara (discipline) recently? Quite different. - Show more
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