Chan-Seung Lee
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:47 am Post subject: as |
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| In stage four good and evil are still contrasted, but with much less harshness than before. Good is clarity of mind, which brings the ability to see the truth. Evil is blindness or ignorance, which makes the truth impossible to see. In both cases we are speaking about self-centered qualities. The person accepts responsibility for defining �the truth� as he or she sees it. But that raises another accusation. What if the truth is simply whatever is convenient? Perhaps stealing a loaf of bread becomes right because �my truth� is that I am hungry. This sort of situational ethics isn�t the real issue, however. In stage four the truth is much more elusive and even mystical. It contains a kind of spiritual purity difficult to define. When Jesus taught his followers that �the truth will set you free,� he didn�t mean a certain set of facts or dogmas but revealed truth. In modern language we might come up with a different translation: seek the knower within, and it will set you free. |
What does 'The person accepts responsibiliy for defining the truth as he or she sees it.' mean?
---- *' The person takes responsibility for defining the truth as seeing it.' ?
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*' The person takes responsibility for defining the truth when he or she sees it.' ?
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*something else?
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