Acquiring virtue. Did you know that hard-boiling eggs in water with some salt
sprinkled in the boiling water helps make shucking the egg shells off easier?
When did you acquire that particular lesson in life? From whom? You were born
with that knowledge? When have you learned otherwise about spiritual virtue?
The role of Civic virtue in spirituality? At school from teachers and books?
From Parents? Guru or spiritual treacher? Church? A pastor? FFL list guidelines
and moderators? Yahoo-groups guidelines? Just wondering, should we expect that
developing consciousness would cultivate virtue? In the subtle bodies it seems
that sin directly obstructs expansion of consciousness as spirituality. Virtue
then in the human form develops the more pure spiritual experience of the
Unified Field as the source of large nature. “Never do that which we know to be
wrong.” “Don''t be unkind” and “love thy neighbor” hold powerful spiritual
field effects that are fundamental to essential spiritual growth for
individuals and communities. Rating people and groups against a scale of
kindness and love is something we all do. Clearly some individuals do groups
better than other other people and some groups are more spiritual than others.
Are the virtues of kindness and loving learned and acquired in spiritual
practice or innate coming with the DNA? What is your experience with virtue as
spiritual practice and progress? Which comes first, spirituality or virtue?
-Buck
TM it seems never really quite equates expansion of consciousness with
development of morality necessarily. There is some assertion about improved
moral reasoning from the science research but not really moral development. TM
seems to stay away from that equation. After this (1974) TM publication,
morality and consciousness it seems never really run close together. Moral
reasoning and consciousness yes, but not development of morality or virtue in
the soul of character as consciousness development necessarily. The TM moral
instruction at best was, Meditate twice a day, act and “Never do that which you
know to be wrong”.
Maharishi and the Pope evidently felt a similar way about consciousness,
ethics and morality.
Well, obviously there is virtue and there is vice, and there are our spiritual
practice of discipline to free our soul of those indentations of the sheaths of
the subtle system created of vice. Spiritually then, those Vāsanā of spiritual
vice, usually given as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony or
in morality of 10 commandments.
Unfortunately some people are brought up badly. Fortunate are those whom have
good teachers who knew better and can give spiritual help. Then evidently in
life service to others is the great virtue as it undoes vice. Seek good
company. Do good. Come to a group transcending meditation near you. So says the
science.
By the Pope's spiritual description quoted as authority in the 1974 TM
publication, consciousness development is quite evidently different from
morality development. One could certainly contend by enumeration of long
experience that in practice this is so, that moral reasoning is some set
different from virtue as to the implementation of necessary spiritual morality
in the development of consciousness. Though these two are evidently intertwined
as spiritual practice.
Future theologians of the Unified Field of next generations will sit with this
as they review the virtue of moral leadership of our past and present TM.Org .
I do hope for the best judgment and redemption even to all, -Buck in the Dome
“This study was designed to investigate whether a positive relationship exists
between the practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and moral
reasoning,” Paper 91, A Study of the Relationship of the Transcendental
Meditation Program to Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Reasoning.
Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program
Collected Papers,
Volume I,
1977
Editors,
Orme-Johnson
Farrow
pp 727
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up
in small things, and then it will be yours. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“When you speak of consciousness, you do not refer to the moral conscious: the
very rigor of your methods ensures that you do not leave the strictly
scientific domain which belongs to you. What you have in mind exclusively is
the same faculty of perceiving and of reacting to perception, that is to say,
the psychophysiological concept which constitutes one of the accepted meanings
of the word 'consciousness.'” -(Pope Paul VI addressing a gathering of
Scientists for the study of Brain and Conscious Experience, Rome 1964).
Excerpt, The Psychobiology of Transcendental Meditation A Literature Review
Kanellakos and Lukas
