An Exercise in Duality; Good and Evil

An exercise in Duality
Good versus Evil

Earth reality is made out of duality.
That is not a poem, it is a fact.
Duality is how we experience life. We need to see both day and night to see the contrast. We must have hot to show us what cold is. Without these contrasts we would exist in a undifferentiated lukewarm soup, of no contrasts.

Hot and cold are part of one thing, but on opposite ends of the pole. As one hot moves toward cold, there are an infinite amount of gradations of warmer and cooler.

Many think hate is the opposite of love, but hate is just an expression of fear. Those who hate see only themselves as trustworthy and so only love themselves and seek their own good. They push others away because they feel threatened and like a flower they close up and shut the door of their feelings and compassion. Fear paralyzes the mind as fear creates more fear.

Good and evil are illusions, and places a person, or event in either one of two categories.

This pattern is seen in the history of war. There are always good guys in white hats riding to the rescue, generation after generation, while the bad guys wear the black hats and are called the villians. In reality there is only One human family, no matter how much humanity tries to separate and categorize each other.

This is why we have been warned not to judge others. In a world of illusions where so many thing seem the opposite of what they really are.

Leaving dual thinking opens the way to see the Oneness of everything. When the twin poles of black and white merge we stop putting people and events in two piles, we stop judging between them on some arbitrary scale, therefore we don’t bring judgement on ourselves.

What is good to one is not good to another. It is good for the employee to get a raise from her perspective but to the boss it is not good and he tries to avoid it. Its all perspective.

Observing another’s choice does not mean adopting that choice as your own. We can later thank that event or person for providing us the contrast we needed to see that their path was not the right one for us.

Those who cling to duality, still need duality to allow them to see contrast, but when the student is ready the teacher comes and it is time for duality to be abandoned along with judgement.
Then, a certain peace comes upon the mind. No longer does the judge sit on the bench, judging between every action that comes into his view. He has retired. He sees that he was not needed to run the universe, nor could he. He sees everything he used to fear and hate, as just another choice. This does not mean he is does not see the injustice, it means he no longer reacts to it emotionally. Those who are emotionally invoved need to remember humans do not see other lives, nor karma and know next to nothing about the workings of the balance. They are not in a position to judge.

It is plain that the negative path is allowed or it would not be present.
Everything serves a purpose and not knowing the purpose does not mean it does not have a purpose.
The purpose of its existence is to give contrast and provide you a choice.
You must realize that the purpose of existence and this world of unreality is to provide the Creator with a whole and complete experience.
If you have a Mother Teresa then you must have a Ghengis Khan. There are always willing souls who will step into each role. Put aside trying to rule the universe and just allow all to be.
Judgement is negative. You do not weaken negative energy by giving it more negative energy. It only grows. You do not stop war by thinking how bad war is. You instead carry peace in your heart.
For every negative thought there is an opposite positive one, so instead of condemning things as bad, try and find something of learning within each situation, if only it is the experience of seeing what you do not want.


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