The Ethics Index
I take things from Peirce that make sense to me. Like signs. Like triads. Like First, Second and Third. I give them meanings that will differ from anything in the Peirce offerings. Do they represent Peirce? It doesn’t matter. The question is always: What is the practical outcome of anything? Can we affect it? How might we do that? And at this I claim some success.
The Ethics Index is the Second item in the Triad that underlies Triadic Meditation.
FIRST
REALITY has given you a bit of time
to name a sign
(what comes up)
You say to yourself
what that sign seems to be saying.
(Breathe in. Breathe out.
Proceed.)
SECOND
ETHICS is an index of the following.
It is this LIST:
Tolerance
Helpfulness
Democracy
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
Non-idolatry
Abba speaks from before the Burning Bush
or
Your Higher Self speaks some reflective words
or
You reflect on your encounter with the words of the Index
Recap:
The FIRST is the Sign REALITY
The SECOND is the Index ETHICS
End of Recap
I shall run through each term in the Index anon. For the moment get your mind around the notion of a triadic form of meditation.
REALITY ETHICS AESTHETICS
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You can run through this index
merely by letting
your Sign meet each term.
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Or you can come up
with a sense of
how each term relates
to the Sign.
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Continuing.
Continuity is an ur Peirce term.
To me it means everything moving
all of us moving.
Fallibly.
Evolutionarily.
Continually.
Mysteriously.
Miraculously.
