Morning Thoughts on Anger, Fear, and ‘the Three Gates’

Asking “Is It True? Is it Useful? Is it Kind?” isn’t only good for you as a moral individual, it is also useful if one assumes that there is something deep within us that desires our actions to be in such alignment. Just a thought experiment — I’m not dogmatic about this at all. Really, it just occurred to me that many such aphorisms have symmetry.

If you ask: by what belief system, what view of the world, what value structure does a person’s actions or words seem TO THEM to meet this standard, I suspect we can enter their world more…