Does any Buddhist school teach about False (fake, hypocritical) Virtue (goodwill, goodness)?
What it is, how common it is, how it differs from the true authentic virtue, perhaps its causes and its results - those kinds of things.
Is virtue in Buddhism *objective*, so that we can speak about true authentic virtue as something definite and timeless, or is all virtue always necessarily subjective and partial? Or perhaps there are two kinds of virtue, mundane virtue - partial and subjective - and supramundane virtue of non-attachment and non-identification?
If so, is there continuity and/or a single principle in common between both the worldly virtue and the supramundane virtue, so that we could simultaneously behave in line with both, or does behaving in line with supramundane virtue require going against or leaving behind the worldly virtue?
Is the authentic virtue something we can side with, against both *the vice* and *the false virtue* or is it something that requires going beyond the dichotomy and accepting all virtues and vices (or rejecting all virtues and vices)?
Basically, can we side with the Virtue&Truth in opposition to Vice&Hypocrisy, or is juxtaposing the two a wrong way to look at it, according to Buddhism?
What do the Pali Canon, the commentaries, and the Mahayana texts and commentaries teach about all this, if anything?
Asked by Andriy Volkov
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Mar 3, 2022, 01:21 AM
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