Sunyatta Journals

Does evil triumph because you did nothing? Or because you paved the way for it? It's important to answer that question for yourself. One of the answers contains a misunderstanding that evil and good are independent of each other. That answer will forever look for scapegoats, but never look at the one thing you can change: yourself. Duality is a human construct that nature doesn't care about. Dualistic thinking is a smudge on your lens that prevents you from seeing how things truly work. Once you understand that good and evil are one and the same, you may start to notice the puppet strings that connect you to the "evil" that you try to vanquish. In such a situation, the best solution may not be to rage at evil, but to first cut the puppet strings.

In terms of the amount of information, I always felt that it's as if we have about 1KB of emotion, but we rationalize it with about 100GB of stories. The 1KB is real, and the 100GB is fiction. Yet we spend most of our lives pitting our fictions against each other.  We have so much to say about how we think the world should be, and how we think others should act. We're convinced we are irreconcilably different because our stories are different.  Perhaps the underlying story is much simpler. "I have been hurt, and I don't want to be hurt again." If we shared our 1KB we'd realize we're not so different after all.