Meditation as Ethical Activity
Georges Dreyfus
Abstract:
Despite the fact that the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions developed
substantive ethical systems on the personal, interpersonal and social levels,
they did not develop systematic theoretical reflections on the nature and
scope of ethics. Precisely because very little attention is devoted to
the nature of ethical concepts, problems are created for modern scholars
who are thus hindered in making comparisons between Buddhist and Western
ethics. This paper thus examines the continuity between meditation and
daily life in the context of understanding the ethical character of meditation
as practiced by Tibetan Buddhists. The discussion is largely limited to
the practice of meditation as taught in the lam rim (or Gradual
Stages of the Path).
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