2018-08-27 15:04:26
Good and bad
The good and the bad are terms related to the so-
called “horizontal level” of life, which is the
consequence of our present life situation. The
person evaluates it subjectively as good or bad. By
contrast, there is need to distinguish words
“goodness” and “badness”. These serve to describe
the spiritual direction of man - “the vertical” of his
life. If you imagine human being as a point through
which the horizontal of the expressed earthly life
and the vertical of spiritual life comes, you will get
a cross. The cross is a symbol of Truth; the level
of your life (horizontal) will be proportional to your
spiritual quality (vertical). So if you really want to change your life and its external circumstances, change yourself.
People look at the world around them mostly in a subjective way, because they usually see it only in relation to themselves. “This is what I want but not that, this is good and this is bad...” - according to whether it suits them or not. In fact, things are not good or bad. We only make them look this way. We call the rain a good thing
when it waters our garden and a bad thing when we want to be outdoors; a fire in the fireplace is called a good thing on a cold evening, but the summer heat is considered a bad thing.
Opposites such as “good” and “bad” somehow belong to one another like two sides of the same coin. Once you see it from one side and then from the other one; yet you never see both sides at the same time. Seeing the two opposites and mystically connecting them is something only a fully aware person can do - an individual who experienced both opposites, knew them and learned to love them,
or more plainly, accepted them without grumble. We learn that something is good only in comparison with its bad opposite. Without contrast nothing would exist. After all, how would you know what is beautiful if you did not know what is ugly? How would you realize what is happiness if you wouldn't know what it feels like to be unhappy? But when you stop judging things around you in terms of whether you
like them or not, your subjective view changes to the objective one and you see things as they are. Then you will really understand life and you will be able to live fully. What is a good thing for one person can be bad for the other. You can slice bread with a knife but you can also kill with a knife. “Slice of bread” from a poor family (to take from the little they have), however, is not good, and to kill, for example,
a pig, may be good for its owner. But it would be bad in case the pig has some illness. Good can easily turn into bad and bad into good, and what once was convenient can be a burden now.
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