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Single Idea 8142
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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Full Idea
The wise prefer the good to the pleasant; the foolish, driven by fleshly desires, prefer the pleasant ot the good.
Gist of Idea
The wise prefer good to pleasure; the foolish are drawn to pleasure by desire
Source
Anon (Upan) (The Upanishads [c.950 BCE], 'Katha')
Book Ref
'The Upanishads', ed/tr. Prabhavananda /Manchester [Mentor 1957], p.16
A Reaction
If you consider appropriate diet, this is too obvious to be worth saying. The complication is that it is doubtful whether a life without pleasure is wholly good, and even the pleasure of food is not bad. Of two good foods, prefer the pleasant one.
The
18 ideas
from 'The Upanishads'
8159
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Damayata - be self-controlled! Datta - be charitable! Dayadhwam - be compassionate!
[Anon (Upan)]
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8156
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The gods are not worshipped for their own sake, but for the sake of the Self
[Anon (Upan)]
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8157
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A man with desires is continually reborn, until his desires are stilled
[Anon (Upan)]
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8158
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Do not seek to know Brahman by arguments, for arguments are idle and vain
[Anon (Upan)]
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8155
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Without speech we cannot know right/wrong, true/false, good/bad, or pleasant/unpleasant
[Anon (Upan)]
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8153
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By knowing one piece of clay or gold, you know all of clay or gold
[Anon (Upan)]
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8154
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Originally there must have been just Existence, which could not come from non-existence
[Anon (Upan)]
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8152
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Earth, food, fire, sun are all forms of Brahman
[Anon (Upan)]
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8144
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Brahman is the Uncaused Cause
[Anon (Upan)]
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8142
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The wise prefer good to pleasure; the foolish are drawn to pleasure by desire
[Anon (Upan)]
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8143
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Self is the rider, intellect the charioteer, mind the reins, and body the chariot
[Anon (Upan)]
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8147
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We have an apparent and a true self; only the second one exists, and we must seek to know it
[Anon (Upan)]
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8146
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The immortal in us is the part that never sleeps, and shapes our dreams
[Anon (Upan)]
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8145
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Those ignorant of Atman return as animals or plants, according to their merits
[Anon (Upan)]
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8149
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Charity and ritual observance distract from the highest good of religion
[Anon (Upan)]
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8150
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The immortal Self and the sad individual self are like two golden birds perched on one tree
[Anon (Upan)]
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8148
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Brahma, supreme god and protector of the universe, arose from the ocean of existence
[Anon (Upan)]
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8151
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Let your teacher be a god to you
[Anon (Upan)]
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