Maria Heim, “The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention and Agency” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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The Importance of Negativity in Buddhist Ethics
The Buddha goes as injunctions on action when he's even given kind of concrete guidance on what to do are really more about what not to do. That phrase very much negatively and that almost seems to get you to endorsing the transcendency thesis that the Arahad is is beyond good and bad comma. I just kept noticing that everywhere you turn good actions or good intentions are actually abstentions or refraining from doing something so it just seemed both psychologically but even at the way the actions are being described over and over again we have the idea that refraining from action abstaining abandoning certain kinds of mental experiences is the path. And that to me I didn't know where to turn in a
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