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Truth, virtue, and the force that draws the person toward wisdom and the divine.
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Asha
Truth, virtue, and the force that draws the person toward wisdom and the divine.
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definition
Zoroastrianism reorders polytheism by placing Ahura Mazda as lord of wisdom and locating heaven and hell as forces inside the human person: Asha as truth and Drush as lie.
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Asha is not merely telling factual truth; it is a system of virtue that makes the person a representative of Ahura Mazda on earth.
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Jiang maps Asha onto three Kantian principles: universality, free will, and treating each human as an end rather than a means.
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Plato's cave becomes Jiang's metaphor for Asha: liberation is incomplete until the freed person returns to help others escape.
normative
Asha is not only self-truth; the one who sees truth has a responsibility to help others see it too.
normative
Even in a world of evil, Jiang says the individual must choose good and tell the truth because Ahura Mazda will know and judge the choice.
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Following Asha means doing God's work: a choice made in the heart changes the world for the better.
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Jiang answers the problem of evil by saying virtue must come from vice; humans are born in Drush so they may discover Asha.
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"...at us, that divide us. The first is the force of Asha, and the second is the force of Drush. Okay? These ideas are..."
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"And he is a port prophet, just like Homer and the Yahwehs, and he's dealing with a situation. Okay? We've entered a system where..."
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"...simplistic understanding of the system. Telling the truth is not what Asha is, right? What Asha really is, is a system of virtue. By..."
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"...show you is that it's very similar to the concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the..."
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"Or, do unto others as others would do unto you. But actually, no, it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that, imagine..."
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"...Okay? So these three things together gives us a concept of Asha. You can see immediately how complicated it is, but at the same..."
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"Okay? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Okay? And this together is two to three point billion people on earth. And that's why I say Zoroastria..."
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"...light. Right? We see the sun. The sun, of course, is Asha. Truth. Okay? Or Ahura Masta. And we're blinded because our eyes are..."
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"...beautiful. Okay? I found heaven. I found the truth. I found Asha. I found Ahura Masta. This is what life is really about. Okay?..."
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"...we need to get into tune, right? Okay? So that's what Asha is. Asha is not just self -individualization, self -truth. It is helping..."
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"...And this gives you a better understanding of the idea of Asha. Okay? So if you move towards the truth, you're moving towards Asha...."
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"So we're living in a world run by Davahs, by demons who choose violence to control us. Okay? And what do you do? And..."
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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