{"id":3213,"date":"2009-08-05T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2009-08-05T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:44:40","slug":"truth-goodness-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/08\/truth-goodness-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, Goodness & Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perfect goodness (universal compassion) based upon
\nperfect truth (universal wisdom)
\nleads to perfect beauty (universal magnificence) –
\nin the form of Buddhahood.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Stonepeace<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A popular author on comparative faiths espouses this idea – ‘It doesn’t matter what you believe<\/strong><\/span>, but how you behave<\/span><\/strong>.’<\/span> (This might not be a verbatim quote.) At first, it seems perfectly alright, a sound concept to promote. But if you are to reflect deeper, it might not be. Here are associated words of the keywords involved:<\/p>\n

Believe:<\/strong><\/span> Belief; Inner Basis; Truth\/Delusion; Understanding; Wisdom<\/span>
\nBehave:<\/strong> <\/span>Behaviour; Outer Expression; Goodness\/Evil; Love; Compassion<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you might have realised by now, it does matter what you believe<\/span><\/strong>, because it determines how you behave<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. It’s idealistic to imagine that all aspects of all so-called spiritual beliefs lead to similar acts of universal understanding and love (wisdom and compassion) – because one’s outer expressions are based on different inner bases of ideology – some of which might be truthful and good, some of which deluded and evil, and in many cases, a mix of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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