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Thread 0023: TSK and morality
entry 0001:
LOK, p. xl: With greater appreciation for the riches that experience presents, time deepens and expands, allowing a further maturation of knowledge and promoting harmony of thought, word, and deed. Commitment to the welfare of others arises spontaneously: a direct response to the unfolding of a new vision.
entry 0002:
KTS, pp. 437-8: Global knowledge, which knows 'through' the 'logos', is the expression of this insight. It leads to an acceptance and appreciation of the prevailing 'order' without making this 'order' binding as such. Good and bad, right and wrong, and other such distinctions are understood as judgments based on human values and conventions that arise within the 'order'-'read-outs' that resonate within the temporal order.
Good is 'good for' and bad is 'bad for'-they are values and meanings that depend on structures of the temporal order. Together with knowing and not-knowing, as well as mistakes and misperceptions that they permit, they are illuminated by higher knowledge, which shines through them.
. . . The 'growth' from lower to higher knowledge and the initial 'state' of lower knowledge itself are equally expressions of the higher knowledge 'attained'. Even mistakes are expressions of this knowledge: Mistakes have meaning within an order, and this older is the product of knowledge. To take a simple example, making a wrong turn while driving goes together with the system of cars, streets, directions, and places to be reached or not reached. The 'read-out' that encompasses the 'order' encompasses the possibility of the mistake.
From this all-encompassing perspective, there is no such thing as wrong action, because knowledge is embodied in all action. However, we should not confuse this analysis with the position that all actions, all choices, and all interpretations are equally valid, for such a position--as a position--has not progressed beyond a first level of knowledge. The insight that would clarify this confusion cannot be fully sustained in first-level terms. This is one reason for proceeding from the first level to the second level, rather than going immediately to a third-level understanding.
entry 0003:
KTS, pp. 467-8: What would happen if we entered such a realm of always active knowing? Because we would see polarity, judgment, speculations, and the other foundations for establishing existence as leading nowhere, it seems that much of this activity would stop of its own accord. But this stopping would not be an annihilation based on a forceful ignoring or a reduction akin to ignorance. It would be spontaneous cessation, the fruit of an expanded knowing. Free from the restless agitation that sustains the known, knowledge would sustain activity that was truly meaningful.
Then what would be the basis for action? If we trace values
and moral choices to beliefs and conditioning, we may conclude
that a knowledge 'without foundation' will leave us without standards
to guide our conduct. But the dichotomy between beliefs and knowledge
also has no basis. Like every other form of appearance,
beliefs can be rich with knowledge; not only the knowledge inherent
in the 'truth' of the belief, but knowledge of arising and consequences,
knowledge of ways in which knowledge is frozen and ignored; knowledge
of the structure of beliefs. It is when we trace knowledge within
the known in this way that we approach a way of acting 'based
on' transparent knowledge--knowledge without limits, in which
action springs from inspiration.
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