Simple tenets in the pursuit of maximizing global eudaimonia.
1. Honesty
2. Compassion
How best to achieve those states:
1. Be actively receptive
2. Apply the greater truths to everyday actions
There is a nice subjective/objective, or inner/outer, symmetry in each pair. Of the two virtues, honesty is one of inner life; compassion deals with the outer world of others. The two means of achieving the virtues have to do with connections between the inner and outer worlds. The first concerning the movement of information from the outer world to the inner: it is a person's disposition to the world as it presents itself, what he is perceiving. The second has to do with one's actions in the world, how one conveys inner information to the outside world. Apply the greater truths to everyday actions by remembering what we learn about life through meditation and reading and our experiences and apply them to each thing we do. "No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must never forget that it has a bearing on our everlasting self which is poetry." -Basho
Simple tenets, and infinitely difficult.
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