Good and Bad

 

Good and Bad

So many things in life are defined in binaries – good-bad, love-hate, like-dislike, light-dark, and so on. Let’s consider good-bad as a binary. We normally understand that whatever is positive, beneficial, healthy, etc as good for us and that which is not is bad for us. Our vision of life normally does not extend too far into the future, so we act in ways that are good for us in the immediate future. Everything we plan and do is for our, our family’s own future benefit. We do this almost every day and then something happens which makes our decision look bad and we start thinking why did we do this.

Such is life, it makes man’s decision look silly, whereas just a moment ago we had thought that this was possibly the best decision we had ever taken. If there are other people involved in this then we try and analyse what went wrong, whether it was anything we did, or the circumstances changed or someone came to put a spanner in the works!

Whatever it is – our perception of good has now become bad. That is life! What is good today can turn bad tomorrow and there is nothing you can do about it. The only thing you could do was to take the bad in your stride and move on, because it takes just another twist of fate to turn what is considered bad today to good tomorrow!

Our approach to both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ should be the same – without attachment, whatever happens always happens for the good – if you have this attitude then you will never have a ‘bad’ moment. That is because your understanding of life has accepted that there is nothing ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in life – everything just ‘is’. It is our mind which decides good and bad – it is our expectation, our fear, our desire, our love, etc which defines good and bad for us. Basically, the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ exists in our subconscious mind based upon our past experience.

When we start meditating, we slowly start living in the present moment, the past is forgotten and the future is not here. When this happens, then our perception of good-bad disappears and everything appears to be good – because we are living in the moment – and the moment is the only reality, everything else is just history or a mystery yet to unfold. Live in the moment and be ‘happy’ or better still – just ‘be’ – thus living in the moment will start reflecting on your face, which will start glowing with a kind of radiance. Be joyous, be happy, spread joy, spread happiness because everything just IS – nothing is good, nothing is bad!