The Distortion of Evil

(Mundane reality)
(actually, evil has no reality!)
(but still there is reality within the non-reality!)
(This is the Buddhainthedirtyenergy!)

Our essential nature – what we truly are – has wisdom qualities: the three kayas, the five wisdoms and the four activities. These are not things we have to do: they are naturally present in all sentient beings, as we all have an awakened nature (Buddha nature). It’s just there…going unnoticed.

It goes unnoticed because of an ‘I’ fixation. We saw a sun in a reflection, and took the reflection to be the sun. We observed thoughts and took the thoughts to be us. This turned wisdom into negative energy – dirty energy.

We may complain about others’ dirty energy, but that very reaction creates dirty energy. The good news is that dirty energy can be cleaned. There are many methods depending on our capacity, from the application of antidotes to the recognition that the dirt never existed.

Here we have to be very careful. We can assume that the dirt never existed, and believe that that is all we have to know…but we need to observe very closely in order to see ascertain that we may still be holding on to something that never existed! We simply use the method that suits in the moment. It’s like wanting only to rest in pure awareness and not practise watching the breath, because that is too basic and we are beyond that.

But there are times when we should remember the basics: ’tis but a short hop back to pure awareness!
One method is to recognise the four enlightened activities, and observe how they become distorted by a belief in a reflected ‘I’.

The four enlightened activities and the four distortions.
Our demon activity which obscures our enlightened activity will be presented tomorrow…
that’s if I can summon up a demon…

Oh…I’m already here!;-)