What I have found in interacting with a few friends on my last article - its difficult for most of us to act without any reference to thought - thought which is a product of past. I sincerely agree - and one thing I want to tell all of you that this words which I write here are not words to be taken as a theory or as an analysis or as a preaching - never - because whenever you accept authority of anyone on anything, you will simply close the doors of true awareness and get attached to a fixed path. I want to discuss these observations and also request you to truly ask your own self or try to be aware from where all our action comes.
Its difficult to imagine a blank canvas but not un-attainable. We simple have to get inside everything to truly be aware of the phenomenon. If we are to observe our own actions - we meaning the product of our immoral and evil past - we, meaning the living example of mankind - we need to look at our actions without getting influenced by knowledge. Else - if we just think that this act of ours is violent or that act is an act of hatred then we will be creating a difference between the observer and the action. We are the violent - we are greedy - we are envious - and all these comes from the self which is a product of time and knowledge - where we are conditioned to response hate with hate, violence with violence and be on a continuous chase under the influence of the immoral society which we have build so far.
Evil exists in us - in our mind - knowledge is evil. We - each one of us is a reflection of the mankind - our past - a product of time and knowledge - knowledge being the evil root of this immoral society with intellectual divisions we have build so far and where we continue to live. There is no concept of evil - we are the evil - we promote violence - hatred - greed - jealousy - brutality - everyday as the immoral society created by us - shapes all our thoughts and actions. We also need to understand how this society drives us to a constant chase for more of everything - be it arms, territory, love, material, knowledge, spirituality, acceptance, technology, everything - which again contributes to our envy, greed, hatred and violence.
The human mind always seeks security from childhood till the day we die - and the circle of security gets build from all knowledge we acquire - knowledge being incomplete in all sphere - the wall of security and corresponding illusion of self-image is also incomplete - we imagine we are secure with this religion, we are secure with this nation, we are secure in a relation, we are secure in a position, we are secure in health - but since the image of security in our mind is never complete and based on incomplete knowledge and understanding - conflict occurs at all level. Even in a relation the mind builds images of the other person based on 10 or 100 or maybe a 1000 or more impressions - but can that image be a complete image of the person ? And we merrily base our interactions on some assumptions based on this ‘ incomplete’ image in our mind. We assume if I say this, he or she will feel / say/ think or act like this - we have got so conditioned - that this happens unconsciously sometimes. And since this images are never complete image - conflicts occur at all levels. Conflicts which give birth to depression, frustration, hatred, violence, competition, anger, envy and all the evils.
But our tradition says - to live you must suffer - you must toil - you must work hard - you must make an effort - else the traditional evils like religion, state, commerce, economy and all other notional divisions cannot reap their harvest of fear, conflict, hatred and violence.
What do you mean with immoral society?
I agree we live conditioned, always thinking what he/she will think of us or our actions. I hate that, by the way.
Still, knowledge is yet to show me its evil face.
@Lafa
The fact that we try and mirror others actions before we act but that is a very basic instinct - even animals do that when they go for a hunt. We also do the same.
Knowledge is never complete and so puts us in constant conflict as decisions are based on knowledge. A Jewish and Arab kid without knowledge will play together but when u give them history they will behave like two snakes.
Love.