The moral purpose, as I understand it, has to do with your reactions to your perceptions: the are which you learn to control through self-mastery and which brings one peace and the cessation of suffering.

This is an interesting issue, I was thinking about your reference to being oppressed as a state of mind. That’s an aspect of it, it always takes two to tengo. But if one of those tengoers is really good, its a hell of a lot easier to tengo. So if you’ve got somebody with a whip in their hand, you certainly can’t blame just the slave exclusively for the oppresion, you have to look at all involved. This is subtle, but important…The slaver is himself being oppressed by participating in the oppression…Its tricky to see sometimes, but if you look carefully that whip in his hand is his own God, the fear of pain is his own God, his own concept of power. That’s why he tries to use it to control in the first place, because he himself is a slave.