{"id":1210,"date":"2010-04-27T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2010-05-20T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T23:35:03","slug":"satori-and-the-moral-dimension-of-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/satori-and-the-moral-dimension-of-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Social Ethics: Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 13, 2006<\/h6>\n<h3><em>Satori<\/em> and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment<\/h3>\n<p>Dale S. Wright<br \/>\nOccidental College<\/p>\n<p>This essay addresses the question posed by Brian Victoria&#8217;s description of &#8220;moral blindness&#8221; in twentieth-century Japanese Zen masters by claiming that since Zen monastic training does not include practices of reflection that cultivate the moral dimension of life, skill in this dimension of human character was not considered a fundamental or necessary component of Zen enlightenment. The essay asks what an enlightened moral sensitivity might require, and concludes in challenging the Zen tradition to consider re-engaging the Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhist practices of reflection out of which Zen originated in order to assess the possible role of morality in its thought and practice of enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/02_ZSE_Wright.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 13, 2006 Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment Dale S. Wright Occidental College This essay addresses the question posed by Brian Victoria&#8217;s description of &#8220;moral blindness&#8221; in twentieth-century Japanese Zen masters by claiming that since Zen monastic training does not include practices of reflection that cultivate the moral dimension of life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/satori-and-the-moral-dimension-of-enlightenment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zen Social Ethics: Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2643,2678,2596],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-13-2006","tag-enlightenment","tag-monasticism","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-jw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}