Why Do We Make Excuses?

Excuse: justifying a fault or injustice.

Why are we so ready to take sides?
Do we make excuses for a cosy life?
Is “I believe” our downfall?

Why do we make excuses for others when what they say doesn’t make sense? We turn a blind eye to possibilities because the truth may be uncomfortable, or even too shocking. The Dharma is about what is actually happening behind the scenes in our mind. When we accept propaganda – misleading information – as truth, we are bound to confusion.

There are two aspects to every situation; the form and the essence – what something looks like and what it actually is.

Pure consciousness sees all, but the mind judges unfairly through bias, based on very few factors.
We comfort ourselves with excuses. It’s lazy thinking as we fall into cliches to sound caring and honourable. This enables the misleading state of affairs to continue.

For the wordly, absolute truth is uncomfortable;
they rely on very old news (thousands of years old)
rather than seeing the effects in their mind right now.