Merits of Morality

Good morning!

 

We saw the beautiful morning star high in the sky. We saw the flower at the altar and smelled the fragrance of the incense.

 

A couple of millennia ago the Buddha said that the fragrance of morality can be smelled even against the wind.

 

A couple of centuries ago Immanuel Kant said that he was amazed at stars in heaven, flowers on earth, and the morality of humans.

 

A couple of decades now – the morality expressed in our own lifetimes – will decide our destiny for a couple of centuries and a couple of millennia. Not only human destiny, but the destinies of all beings to come.

 

4/13/11

 

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