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EASTERN ETHICS, Concepts of li and yi, Ancient Ethical System, Absolute…

- - - - Imposed from within oneself
      - Individuals' innate
      - Karmic results
      - Goal : Universal Interconnections, Liberated from the self
    - - Goal : Achieve self-direction
      - Human flaws that require an Intermediary (God)
- - - - Main Emphasis
        
        Improve goodness of action = improve karma
        
        No longer, Desirable cosmic, Universal Self
        
        An illusory, every day, impermanent experience
    - - c 2000 to 1000 BCE : long before the ethical philosophy of the ancient Greeks
    - - Teachings
  - - - Karma
      - Moksha
      - Stuck in Maya
    - - Four Noble Truths
        
        Second Noble Truth
        
        Third Noble Truth
        
        Cause of suffering is attachment (clinging or craving) to impermanent things
        
        suffering can be transcended (enlightenment)
        
        Forth Noble Truth
        
        Path for transforming suffering into enlightenment or liberation
        
        First Noble Truth
        
        Suffering (dukkha), part of all forms of existence
      - The Eightfold Path
        
        Practices
        
        Right diligence
        
        Right concentration
        
        Right action
        
        Right Livelihood
        
        Right
        
        Right mindfulness
        
        Right thinking
        
        Right speech
        
        Right view
      - As an Ethics of Virtue
        
        4 immeasurable virtue
        
        Mudita : sympathetic joy
        
        Metta : loving-kindness
        
        Upekha : equanimity
        
        Karuna : compassion