Free your mind of duality. Use the sharpness of your mind to cut through the fallacy of "good or evil", which clouds it with likes and dislikes.
Remember that "good" and "evil" are conventions only -- "good" is that which the mind likes, and "evil" what the mind dislikes.
Indeed, they are different sides of the same opinion; and that opinion is called "judgment".
Instead, view life as the careful balance of good and evil through mindful practice.
In doing so, it will be possible to become nonjudgmental, and thus taste the essence of the nondual mind.
For such a mind is free of needless attachment to life yet values life dearly.
Once your mind is freed, you exist in harmony with everyone, and see the world with the clear mind awakened.
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"... so you should realize that all the names of the bodhisattvas are just different names for the nature of mind. As an expedient in the World-Honored-One's sermons, he defined things using certain names, and with these names he pointed to the truth. Ordinary people, unaware of this truth, become attached to the names and, in the hopes of attaining Buddhahood, seek the Buddha and Dharma outside their minds. It's like cooking sand in the hopes of producing rice." -- Zen Master Bassui.
Reference: Braverman, Arthur (2002). Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui. Wisdom Publications. pp. 56. ISBN 0-86171-320-6.
Likewise too, Buddha Nature is an intrinsic quality found in all sentient life, which reflect the nature of the mind.
It is not divine so as to be consistent with the Buddhist concept of non-self.
Though it is immortal, this is because Buddha Nature is timeless.
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