EVERLASTING LOVE
I love my seconds... I live for them... and as long as I am here again, let me sing again!
"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." Stapp's Ironical Paradox
I love my seconds... I live for them... and as long as I am here again, let me sing again!
Confucius recognized several levels of honesty.
His shallowest concept of honesty was implied in his notion of Li: all actions committed by a person to build the ideal society - aiming at meeting their surface desires of a person either immediately (bad) or longer term (good).
Deeper than Li was Yi or righteousness. Rather than pursuing your own interests you should do what is right and moral - based on reciprocity.
The deepest level of honesty was Ren, out of which flowed Yi and thus Li. Confucius' morality was based upon empathy and understanding others, which required understanding one's own moral core first, rather than on divinely ordained rules, which could simply be obeyed.
Buddhist teching on honesty: “Real honesty is being honest about what your possibilities are, what your potentials are. That's where true honesty lies. It stretches us. It’s not simply admitting where we are - that’s a beginning step, it’s not the end step. So be honest about where you are but also be honest about what your possibilities are. That keeps the challenge of the path always before us.”
I am doomed!
I have no excuse!
Oh, what the hell, life still goes on...