Jayarava जयरव 勝鳴

@Jayarava I don’t have much quarrel with the norms, but the pretense that they are Buddhist rubs me the wrong way.

@Meaningness well... Buddhist ethics *do* have a definite content - e.g. pañcasīla, dasakusalakammapatha etc.

@Meaningness And a definite rationale (or two)

@Meaningness The main rationale of Buddhist ethics is to obtain a better rebirth. That is at the forefront especially for laypeople.

@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.

@Jayarava I must have seen that, but it’s not ringing a bell. URL?