evil and the dark side

[Olaf]

In history people demonised anything strange or weird, for example if you did anything out of the ordinairy, you would be a witch or magician and be hanged on a cross like Jesus or being killed in other ways. We always want to get rid of evil, but never do we want to have an honest look at what evil truely is and we definitely don´t want to see how we could be evil ourself. 

But evil or darkness is intrinsic to humans, we are all carrying a level of darkness, as we all are trying to survive and most of that happens unconsciously. We are not even aware how most of what we do directly corelates with our need to survive. Even something as simple as motivation, is helping you to stay motivated to keep living, to keep surviving, creating meaning for your life is another way to stay motivated and therefor to survive. 

Some people even put themself through pain, because it feeds them, they feed of the pain, look at how David Goggins gets all his motivation out of his pain, he is a true survivor, but is that really the goal? To be a survivor is directly correlated to darkness and evil, therefor truely good people cannot exist, I am not saying they don't exist at all, but we are talking probably about 0.000000000000000001% and even in them they still somewhere want to survive and there still are ego games being played in their own mind. So its more like 0% if we look at it very objectively

So we are all evil. I had a woman coming up to me and she was a christian, now I am not a christian, but the way she said something to me hit me, she said "We are all sinners as we are born and are going to die, even I am not good, nobody is" I was like, wow, that is the first honest Christian I have heard in my life. She was really telling how she is bad aswell, what actually requires a great deal of reflection and honesty. Now that doesn't mean Christianity is the way or whatever, I was just impressed by her own development. 

So what is then the goal? The goal to become "enlightened" can't be it, because enlightened teachers carry evil, so to be enlightened is to still be evil by definition. Why are enlightened teachers still evil? Because they still try to survive, unconsciously or consciously so. For me the goal is becoming aware, aware of our own processes, our own devious mechanisms. Not to become perfect, just to become clear, perceptive and honest to atleast yourself. I feel this will bring the world to a higher place over any other teaching, to become aware of what is going on, in the end that is also the goal of meditation, is to be mindful, to be aware and that doesn't just mean abiding in awareness as an escape, but rather it means to be perceptive of your own mind/ego and survival mechanism, because the ego can make a trap out of awareness itself.

what is being done by endless spiritual teachers whos goal isnt to become aware of our own processes that are ongoing, but instead to become or teach enlightenment. As we have to understand that till the day we die, this process of the ego will not end and an enlightened teacher could have as much ego if sometimes not even more ego then anyone else. This to me is real spirituality, something that isn't taught anywhere that I know of, because it would go against our survival. 

 

[No1Here2c]

Evil is simply that which is Feared.

Evil is what the ego calls that which it does not Understand.

[Lila9]

I don't know about enlightenment and whether this is real. I know about awakening, as a lifetime gradual process.

23 hours ago, Olaf said:

For me the goal is becoming aware, aware of our own processes, our own devious mechanisms. Not to become perfect, just to become clear, perceptive and honest to atleast yourself. I feel this will bring the world to a higher place

Yes, it's called shadow work