Talk:Basic goodness

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did the Buddha have a view on this? while i don't know, i'll write some notes here - will clean up later, and if fail to do that, well, you know what to do (i mean feel free to clean):

having read a Thai buddhist book on 'right mindfulness' i've had the impression that this is a part of buddhism indeed, and have hence assumed the Buddha himself had a view on this, but have not checked now from where actually that came. i dont have the book right now as i borrowed it to a friend, a friendly monk bought/gave it to me in the Wat Po bookshop while i bought other things myself :)

IIRC it basically is the idea that we all (can) have a healthy conscience, that we just must listen to.

m-w.com on conscience, i did not check what wikipedia itself says on it (yet, now was just spellchecking :)

1 a : the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good b : a faculty, power, or principle enjoining good acts c : the part of the superego in psychoanalysis that transmits commands and admonitions to the ego

i suppose one question is if there are really bad people, then - or are those "just" failures to listen to the good conscience in them.

213.216.199.18 05:54, 25 August 2007 (UTC)Toni Alatalo (http://an.org/t/)