Life Is All Smoke and Mirrors (satire)

Nothing is either good or evil. There just is Yin and Yang. All good and evil is is just smoke and mirrors.

Yet Westerners love to delude themselves by believing good and evil have been here from the beginning. The only thing that is here from the beginning is the Tao.

When humanity becomes extinct, the Tao will remain. Then a new champion will arise take our place.

My bet is on the cockroaches...

Thus all of creation is neither solely good nor solely evil. Instead, all of it but the balance of Yin and Yang, dark and light as one.

This is why it is impossible for me to accept Christianity or even Islam completely. Christianity makes it seem as good and evil pre-date Creation. If you're not good enough for Islam, then the Fire is your destination. It all seems black and white to the ʍuslim.

However, by not being Jewish or Christian, but somewhat touched by the Quran, ɪ still am going to spout words that would get me stoned in the Middle East, mainly because I have outed myself as an unbeliever in strict Muslim eyes and an apostate to Christian and Jewish ideals.

However, it is all an illusion, this concept of good versus evil. For in each of us is the potential for great evil and also great good.

Few of the religionists will grasp my meaning, because they take sides on the concept of good and evil, falsely tainting it as "good versus evil" which is a fallacy if one believes that "forces of good" and "force of evil" predate humanity.

Each of us creates by our actions good or evil, depending on whether each act leads to confusion or to understanding.

In Buddhism, it is said that evil is the result of actions that create confusion and pain. All good actions result from creating conditions that favor peace and understanding. It is impossible to be a goody-two-shoes, because when you least expect it, your good actions might result in suffering for other living beings.

One of the Buddhist precepts is about not killing a living being. Bacteria are living beings, but if we do not kill them with antibiotics, then we might end up dead. This is why we wash our hands.

Yet killing a living being is against the Buddhist precepts. However, because a bacteria is causing us harm, we allow ourselves the right to defend ourselves to kill it. Once ɪ continue my thoughts on this topic, the line between good and evil becomes fuzzy. It is no longer a question of black and white anymore.

Good and evil exist together. You cannot have one without the other. They are not opposites; they are complements.

In my opinion, the same applies to the Absolute and the Void. They coexist to form Space. Yes, I am saying being and nothingness coexist to form the whole universe, reality and unreality, the whole existence, and life as we know it.

Therefore the end of the world story of all evil being consumed by Fire is only half the story of that time, because the brimstone is a clue that the Fire cleans everything of the darkness that is Evil. Once cleans, the goodness of all souls God create remains to return to him in the Absolute. This is known as returning to the Godhead.

Only the wise will understand what I just said. Those people who think ɪ am babbling, their understanding is limited.

This is why it is best for you who understand to just forget what I just said. Truth like this only sounds like babbling but is known to the depth of the souls of the wise.

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Originally postedː ʍarch 31, 2014 03ː18 PDT

The Short Meditation on the Metaphysics of Non-Duality

Dualism affects the Western mind so much it rejects the truth that good and evil depend on what man creates.

The epitome of dualism is "Either you are for us or against us" which is a logical fallacy since picking sides has dire consequences.

The non-dual approach says, "Who cares is One is not equal to Zero?" They merely represent the Absolute (1) and the void (0) but are in themselves both a duality and a continuum.

Non-dualism does not reject duality, but renders good and evil a subset of the Absolute.

Thus the ultimate truth is that what man creates may be either good or evil. For duality is an exception of limited value.

For example, objectivity is at the core the brief focus on what subjectivity is not. The mind still is subject to the whims of the body i.e. the emotional content of subjectivity.

Thus objectivity is an artifact of logical thought as opposed to subjectivity's ties to the heart-mind and its emotional content.

What ties objectivity and subjectivity together is the mind's ability to view such abtract concepts in terms of wholes.

Thus objectivity is associated with our observation of the world, while subjectivity is associated with introspection on the inner world of the mind.

Ergo nobody has a clearly objective mind, as objectivity is part of the consensual reality shared by everyone.

Indeed, the objective mind has no body since it exists outside the body and its subjective mind.

Yet this apparent duality fades when one looks for the objective mind. Indeed, the objective mind is related to the concept of single-minded focus (samadhi) of Buddhist philosophy.

Thus non-duality encompasses both duality and itself, just as basic goodness includes both what man creates and whether it is good or evil.

Emptiness is Full of Impermanent Existence (poem)

Emptiness is empty of nothing,
for nothingness is empty of
nothing, and the void is full
of emptiness, that freedom
from permanence and non-existence.
Thus emptiness is empty of
permanence, and of non-existence.
He who is certain of this
understands Buddhist logic,
and his mind is empty of
the confusion called doubt.

How to cope with wavering thoughts

How to cope with wavering thoughts?
Versatile are flying clouds,
Yet from the sky they're not apart.
Mighty are the ocean's waves,
Yet they are not separate from the sea.
Heavy and thick are banks of fog,
Yet from the air they're not apart.
Frantic runs the mind in voidness,
Yet from the Void it never separates.

-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa