Reasoning as a Home Grown Conscience

2015-02-01

It struck me today that there is an interesting parallel between reasoning and conscience. It’s true that conscience comes from a source in the unconditioned worlds, while reasoning rises out of the world of logic, facts and daily experience. However, they both end up having a quiet, non-coercive influence. We are free to ignore both reason and conscience, and we often do.

It’s unfortunate that we don’t “listen to reason”, because it is in many ways good training for hearing and responding to conscience. And being “home grown”, in the sense that we generate reasoning from ourselves, it’s strange that we don’t exhibit any pride of ownership by actualizing what we have reasoned.

One solution to this is reasoning about reasoning. That’s what we have been doing on this blog for the last month, and I can personally testify that slowly, drop by drop, it’s having an effect.