Where Does Evil Come From?

To own, or to hack into another’s mind is what evil does.

Any being able to think is sentient and conscious – in essence, pure consciousness. In an infinite universe, there are infinite beings who do not know what they are, and so they are easy subjects for being ‘owned’ *.

Through ignorance, we identify with being ‘something’. This identification is a feeling of being a body and mind that we call self, but our uncertainty about this means that our true being remains a mystery. 🙂 Evil like mysteries.

A self identity breeds selfishness, controlled by desire, fear and ignorance. This self can be extremely clever and skilled to get its own way, and can turn a good idea into a idea into self-aggrandisement. This is a feeling of superiority which feeds off others’ insecurity. Evil likes to be adored under a disguise, so that we do not recognise what we, in fact, worship. We are influenced to worship outer appearances.

These controlling urges want to dominate and feed off others’ reactions, and this creates and recreates a chain reaction of oneupmanship. That is the evil element within all of us – and it’s never too far away. Wealth is merely a tool to maintain power, which is seductive to the uninitiated.

The Buddha was an influencer,
but he said,
“Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself.”

Clarity allows us to realise the degree to which we are being owned and hacked.
🙂

* The term ‘to own’ originated in hacker culture, and referred to compromising and gaining control of a computer system, effectively enslaving it.