ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG
Right and wrong apply at the mind level. Love and Truth are not sourced from the mind that perceives opposites. They are absolute and transcend thought.
Love, Truth illuminates thought but is not illuminated by thought. Thought is known and is not-knowing. The light of knowingness belongs to consciousness/awareness and not to the mind.
Truth is neither right nor wrong.
As long as there is personal identification, as long as there is a sense of separation, unhappiness is unavoidable. No matter how you spin it.
The separate personal self goes hand in hand with the impression of a personal thinker and personal thought, which leads to a confused mind and unhappiness.
All sorts of abuse can be seen in our societies. So miserable is the sense of separation and alienation. Our wholeness and indivisibility is overlooked by the impression of personhood.
Spiritual contemplation is about awakening from the illusion of separation and not about a better mind or a better life.
It is via awakening from the illusion of separation that the happiness of the Self is revealed and lived.
Happiness lives itself upon the end of ignorance.
By dianne December 12, 2018 - 7:31 am
I am still unclear about this right and wrong stuff. I understand that Truth is beyond the intellect. However, in relation to how our behaviour in certain circumstances is concerned, how am I to decide how to act? For example, I think the Tories in the UK are really destructive of just about everything about our national life, and many people are suffering under this government so I would vote for a Labour government. I vote this way because if I am to vote at all, a choice has to be made (wherever that comes from). I choose that which is perceived as ‘better’ for us all. Of course politics is steeped in the dualistic. I have heard it said that Charles Manson was ‘enlightened’, and yet it seems it was capable of enormous violence and murdered people in the most horrific way. Can we say that he lived in Truth? I realise it is not so much about behaviour, this ‘knowing’, but still, killing people cannot be what this non -duality is all about? Is it ‘better’ to protect life rather than destroy it? Or is there NO MORAL COMPASS here? If my actions do not come from a ‘separate self’ which ‘agency’, then what happens to the concept of ‘responsibility’? Can I do whatever I like, and its ok, because EVERYTHING is unconditional love anyway, and anyway I do not return as an separate individual, entity, with identity? What do I D0 in my life that would reflect the behaviour of someone who lives, moves and has her being in ‘God’? Unless I go off to the Himalayas, and live on my own and commune mystically there with the WHOLE of creation, beyond intellect and outside of physical contact with the rest of society, then my actions will affect others. Given that I am ONE with them, I suppose my actions will affect everyone anyway? I am sure you have been asked this question a million times (at least) Even so. Help.
By Magdi Badawy December 12, 2018 - 5:59 pm
Dear Dianne, Right and wrong apply in the relative realm, in the waking dream state. In such a state, it is best to do good and avoid acting in hurtful selfish ways.
You ask: ‘How am I to decide how to act?’ As much as possible, act out of love, compassion, empathy, generosity and patience. Act out of the qualities that are universal and not personal.
Do not act to advance your person, but to celebrate this manifestation by bringing into it the light of wisdom. Do not follow your conditioned personal thoughts, rather follow your heart, the universal heart that embraces everything and everyone and yet, remains wise to avoid danger to the body mind.
In the relative realm of manifestation, there is a moral compass that is to live and act according to universal truth and to universal principles.
Responsibility comes from grace. The correct response at that instant is spontaneous and does not refer to personal interest but to universal wisdom which includes taking good care of the body mind without identification.
Love, Magdi