This will be a short entry, because I’m of to our collegial breakfast this morn. The week end unfolded as usual, except that the weather was quite nice, which made my walks very enjoyable.

Sunday evening I completed the last of the butterfly patterns in my mandala. Now it is on to the last three tongues as I call them, before I get started an the final outer petals. It will be a challenge to get it done by this year’s end, but I have decided to be flexible about this, as I do this for my own pleasure.

A short note on ethics. Last night during my evening contemplation an interesting insight surfaced regarding the theme of redemption that have been entertaining of late. My earlier thought was that we as humans take part in a process of redemption within Existence Divine. In it we bring to conscious understanding and interconnectedness ‘things’, aspects and content that were unknown, not understood or entangled in confusion.

My thought of last night was that rather than redeeming through our conscious activity, we humans redeem consciousness by means of our ethics and morals. This, because conscious awareness needs to be ruled by ethics lest it be applied in ways that are unethical.

In spite of the circularity of this statement, it does make clear that ethical knowledge is unique to being humans, because as humans we are capable of undergoing suffering, while being conscious at the same time. Conscious suffering produces ethics in the end, giving rise to morals to govern future behaviour.

In addition to my own observation above, I noted Pope Francis’ opinion in the news that we should not make money our idol in our world affairs, but put human dignity first, ensuring that there is sufficient employment for the people of our human society. <7:45am and time to stop.
<edited and checked at 6:26pm.