How did evil start?

Everything has a cause.

We may be able to answer the question “What is evil”
if we start with what meditation is.
Meditation is simply correcting a mistaken view.
Instead of always looking outwards,
we turn our attention inwards,
to the source of pure awareness,
and rest there.

Looking inward is the source, and the solution.

How did evil start?
Evil could be said to have started
when pure awareness became unaware of itself.
It became attracted to some thing.
In this attraction, our essential nature was forgotten, and an ‘I’ was created, an ego.
So instead of unconditional awareness – non duality –
we created a duality. “I like this.” This duality then desires more.

Following this, there is a judgement of like and dislike: we lost unconditional love
for conditional love. We love what we want, and do not love what we do not want.
So instead of pure perception, we merely have perception, which draws on its memory bank
for a preconceived judgement, and a habitual pattern is set up.

Gradually, light turned to dark, and our reaction become more and more insane.
Evil is losing our sanity, empathy, and unconditional love.

How did evil start?
The answer is seen clearly in the stillness and clarity of meditation, when we get distracted, from stillness and clarity.

In any action we could ask ourselves, “What is my intended purpose?”