Jan. 4th, 2007

Virtue

Jan. 4th, 2007 01:31 am
litharriel: (horned matron by ourescape)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Picture the Grand Canyon," says Buddhist  teacher Jack Kornfield. "Every hundred years, a child comes by and  throws a mustard seed into it. In the time it takes to fill the hole in  the earth with mustard seeds, one mahakalpa will have passed. To perfect the virtuous heart--the joy of integrity--takes a thousand mahakalpas." If that's true, Pisces, then you've still got a lot of work to do. However, the planets are aligned in such a way as to suggest you could make unusually great progress toward the goal of perfecting the virtuous heart in 2007. For best results, meditate often on the phrase "the joy of integrity." Get very familiar with the pleasurable emotion that comes from acting with impeccability. And try out this idea from Gandhi: Integrity is the royal road to your inner freedom. 

Hmmmm, but virtues are rather subjective things, aren't they?  One man's virtue is another's sin as some-wise-person-who's-identity-I-can't-remember said. :-? I suppose the thing to do, then, would be to figure out what the Universal Virtues are, as opposed to those that are merely cultural...

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