There is a great difference between knowing something for sure of what is Right and thinking about what may be Right. Socrates in his time asked the Athenians Is something Right because the gods say it is Right or is something Right because it is Right?
It works the same way by using the word Truth or trying to find the Essence of your Being, the Root Cause of your Innate Self, the yearning to be Free.
Therefore, the innate Right of every human being is the ability to discover what is Right: His or her innate happiness. Any survey of another’s behavior will without any unnecessary reflection derive for them the wish to be Happy, which according to Socrates is related to the the expression of your True Self or Knowledge of Self: You are by origin a feeling machine that strives by various means to find as much joy in Life as possible.
Conflict arises once we try to derive where our state of being to be happy comes from. Prem Rawat points out that the source of Happiness is Happiness. Why? Because it is your obligation to be happy not going to wars. Going to wars is wrong or a sin. You will not find many who will agree with this description of Sin.
We are basically dealing with a highly evasive product related to our continuous suffering and its need for cessation according to Buddha through the Noble Eightfold Path: Right Understanding, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right action, Right livelihood, Right Effort, Right mindfulness, and Right Concentration. When an individual follows the Noble Eightfold Path, he is eventually rewarded through a persistent effort to becoming Enlightened. In Socratic language to be released of his bondage or suffering that tied him to the world of sense objects.
Being tied to sense-objects is best described in the Gita where where Krishna the charioteer talks to Arjuna, the king, what happens when we succumb to the temptations of this world.
Thinking about sense-objects, Will attach you to sense-objects, Grow attached and you will become addicted. Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger; Be angry and you confuse the Mind, Confuse your Mind, and you forget your Lesson of experience; Forget experience and you will lose your discrimination, Lose your discrimination and you miss Life’s only purpose.
How are we to understand in our modern technological world of noise and incessant bombardments of sense-objects distracting our attention that this is at all possible: Such as Right Concentration on a Right thing for the sake of being liberated from the suffering the Mind introduces through the pain of birth, separation, decay, disease, and death.
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