Many people seem to have an infatuation with the image of being "positive", or doing "good". The result is often a focus on feeling-good and avoiding the negative. This can get in the way of stopping the negative and evil that is present in our lives or in the world at large.
For if we are not aware of something wrong, can we don anything about that wrong? If we are not willing to look into a wrong more to understand why it's here, can we really do anything to change it? I think not.
If we try to create good while we choose to ignore how we ourselves are creating evil, will we truly advance? We will be thinking we are doing good, but doing evil. We will think are being moral, when we're still being immoral. We will think are living in truth, when we're living in falsity. How can we truly move ahead while we're blinded to ourselves or our way of life?
To be focused on the good and positive without looking at the evil and negative is a confused, counterproductive, inconsistent lunacy and will not work. We may think we are taking two steps forward, but we make only be taking one step forward, or maybe even two steps back. Only when we face this contradiction can we heal our "insane" conditions of living.
Good deeds are good, sure. But what's more important than trying to do good or positive deeds, is to realize the bad/evil deeds. Evil must be faced and stopped before new good can truly and fully work. Focusing on good at the cost of ignoring evil allows evil to continue and creates two potential paths we may not realize we are on:
- the path for evil to wash away the good that was built upon a faulty foundation
- the path for evil to consume the good into its own preservation, projection and protection, i.e. a mask or illusion of "good" to accept evil
This is the big deception of philanthropy and charities. While the public image is of people doing good in some gestures that they are praised for, they keep doing what they do in other ways that are not good, right or true, but are evil, wrong or false.
Do good deeds balance out the evil? Does doing right wash away the wrongs? I think not. It only masks the wrongs while they continue to be created. Only stopping wrongs can stop the wrong. Only stopping evil ways can stop evil ways. No amount of doing other good deeds or positive thinking can remove them.
The appearance of "right", while continuing the hidden wrongs all around, is not a true path forward. Do we really think doing wrongs with the left hand and washing it away with the right hand will work? It only masks evil so we have trouble readily seeing it for what it is, creating artificial images and illusions of "goodness". Meanwhile, the negative grows because we're not facing it and stopping it.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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