Getting Started

Hi All,
Its been quite some time since a friend of mine asked me whether I blogged.At that time I had told him that I didn't and that I really never felt the need to do so and also that I had never read anybody else's blog either. Today, I suddenly realized that blogging could really help me. I have a lot of ideas in my mind which I would love to discuss with as many people as possible. In the past, it has happend that whenever I discuss such ideas with people I know, they either tell me that they are getting bored or that they just listen and then have nothing much to add what I say. Most of the time,when I am discussing these ideas of mine, I end up doing all the talking and explaining .....more or less a monologue. I have a feeling that I could find a lot of people here that could add to what I have to say and maybe help me understand things better and eventually help me widen my horizons. So here I am.

Lets start from a statement that I came across very long ago and which has stuck in my mind ever since then and that statement is : VIRTUE COMES NOT FROM ABSTAINING FROM VICE BUT BY NOT DESIRING IT. I would love to find out what you guys have to say about this statement. Do post your comments about this and we will take it up further from there.

Have a nice day!

Comments

  1. da DopeFebruary 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM

    Virtue comes....................
    That statement reminds me of a story i read long ago.
    2 young guys venture out for a walk in the evening. Mr.A says lets go to a brothel. Mr.B says lets go the temple. Both of them fail to reach an agreement and head to their respective chosen location.Mr.A has his share of fun. Mr.B sits in the temple singing bhajans but with his mind constantly dwelling on what Mr.A might be upto. I forgot which sage/monk tells the story, but let me not digress. The sage says that there was no point of Mr.B spending time in the temple as his thoughts was elsewhere. I would say that this story ratifies the statement.Lots of rituals in Hinduism advocate fasting. But there is no point in fasting if the person is constantly thinking of various victuals to break his fast while doing so. No time today to write anymore Cheers folks --da_dope

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  2. UnknownFebruary 11, 2010 at 9:35 AM

    Hi, I have a little different view on this. I am sorry if I am taking the discussion astray... away from the intended course... but, I feel that Vice and Virtue both can not have their own absolute existance. In fact both of them can not be without each other.

    Going by the above mentioned first relationship, and extrapolating the idea further, I also thought that the relationship is actually multidimensional and depends on a lot of physical factors like locaiton, time etc. and non physical things like state of mind, mood etc.

    Now to give an example, I would like to explain the anomally in the statement in my way - Doing whatever it take for your mind to NOT DESIRE OF A VICE, YOU ARE ACTUALLY PRACTISING ANOTHER VICE OF SELFISHNESS.

    Thus it is difficult to find an existance of a virtue without a vice being present there and therefore, both of them are integral part of human mind and prictising only either one of them is next to impossible.

    Therefore, by taking an account of immediate consequences one needs to decide to practise what and when.

    MKJ....

    Please do post your comments, I will be able to correct my thinking....

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