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Subject: [OM] Re: Unitarians, was: OT event photos
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:54:26 -0700
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> But Kant is one of the first to dispose of the need for a god in morality 
> (even Aristotle didn't dare) 
As long as you stick to Western philosophy and religion, anyway.

Both the Buddha and Lao Tzu managed to do without god(s) and have quite 
powerful systems of what Westerners would call morality.

Although the roots of the idea go back much further, I think of Master 
Do-gen's formulation as about as pure and succinct as is possible. "What 
you do to others, you do to yourself." It seems to me more spiritually 
and psychologically pure and direct than the more common, Western 
formulations.

Master Do-gen was a 13th. century (again, by Western reckoning) Zen 
monk, who also practiced under Chán masters in China before founding his 
own monastery in Japan. As I consider Zen to be the closest contemporary 
descendant of early Taoism, he is a nice meeting point.

Moose

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