I think that this is a most important point where our Zen Practice diverges from many other Eastern religions, and other religions in general. I must offer a strong caution regarding what you have written. I do not believe it is true.
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It seems to me, that as we become present and realize our true nature, that we then are ethical moral saints, because how can we be anything else in that state. When we are in our original state of connectedness/oneness, and are suffused with the love of the one-that-is, right action is all that is possible. In a state where you and I are one in all-that-is how could I act to harm you.
...Give up such idealistic dreams of this universe. We cannot know, I do not know! Fetch water and chop wood, try to live a life without harm ... trust this universe to do what it will, for it will anyway. If you want to believe in such a spirit or god as a matter of faith, please do! You are free to believe in such things. I will 'wink' at the heavens, for I do not know. In the end, I will merely trust this universe to do with me as it will ... because it will do so anyway, whether I trust it or not.
That being said, there is some truth in what you have written. In our dropping resistance to life, in our realizing the interconnectness of all things, in our embracing of life and each other ... the anger fades from our hearts. The clutching after worldly goods, territory and treasure decreases. It becomes that much easier, thus, to live a life that does not do harm...