There Is No Good Or Evil …

There is no good or evil
… just levels of understanding and misunderstanding.

As we saw in the previous article, “Why do we think differently from others?”, there are levels of experience, all saying the same words, but with changed meanings due to realisation. As they say, “One man’s meat is another’s poison” (or “One man’s poison is another’s meat”).

There isn’t one right and one wrong,
one good and one bad, one moral standard.
We are all at different levels of confusion and realisation.

As an example: we go to a retreat-teaching. There are some there religiously chanting and attending to the rituals. There are others who choose the academic way of translations and history, and some who ‘Meditate’. And then there are the Dharma tourists. The level at which we work is revealed in our ability to empathise with others – not in a generalised way to those afar, but personally. We actually learn from others in the way we respond in our mind.

At the Hinayana level, people see everything as black and white, adhere to rules and are judgemental. We traverse such levels of antidotes, intellectualisations, fabrications and contrivances in an endeavour to purify illusions, to arrive at the Dzogchen level where these illusions are already purified.

We don’t have to be clever to realise this;
we just have to have had enough of the act … the script …
and being part of an audience.
🙂