On Duality, the Fight Against Evil, and Finding Peace

Our OP is searching for something, but not quite sure what. Insight, connection, perhaps something spiritual- anything to bring reprieve from observing the state of the world. They initially weren't sure what question to pose, but keep thinking about balance between all of life's dualities. Light, dark. Sun, moon. Good, bad.

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Sun, moon - good, bad.. Well I'm reminded of everything going on and looking at it as if I couldn't read or speak any languages, and all I see is warfare. Which fight is just is for you to decide. However both sides are capable of the same wicked nature they stone each other for - because the fact remains, no matter your side, you are human. You have a mind.

That's the fear behind the side that fights to keep 'the bad' in power. The fear is that if the roles switch, those in power will be tortured, broken, raped, left in poverty, lied to, poisoned, stripped of their rights- they're afraid what they've been doing will be done to them.

Which is exactly what fuels their purpose to further oppress, the worse it gets the more fear of a worse punishment. So we resist further. Have not we learned in a thousand ways that resistance makes us stronger? We're we never taught- but from the escape granted by an inspirational author or an eastern philosopher- that peace also makes us stronger?

There must have been a time when that fear was purpose... Purpose to prevent those they put faith in from being oppressed, tortured, broken. And over time we act in a manner which we learned from youth- behaving in contrast against verbal combinations of letters and sounds that oppose themselves in concept.

Good and Bad are different colored cloaks, like the skin we're fighting for; It's still just a veil donned over the human experience.

But like the Moon, good and bad has phases. The moon has a spectrum it sways through, though incessantly pelted by space trash. Consider the 'lawful/neutral/chaotic evil' idea. 

'Bad' has a spectrum within 'good and bad' --- so what spectrum is 'good and bad' on one end of? What phases in and out, forcing this collective awareness on us? And where does the spectrum sway when our mind trails elsewhere- when the dust settles and the voices that still need to be heard continue to fight silently?

I wonder most of all, if that is where we are now. If we are on the opposing side of the spectrum- where good and bad is not so easy to see. Sensationalism has caused us, not to be numb or indifferent, but to be so effected by watching a person die that every person reacts with the same aggression, and those who need us most remain unheard. We're not at the point where we can see good and bad with clarity; it's all quite grey.

So if we can see that our fight on either side is grey, and collectively shift our aggression, then we can see it is not resistance we must use, but allowance. Perhaps let the goverment act but we all stay home, and I mean ALL of us. We feed our neighbors, tend to each others hearts and not choose for others to take the responsibility. We turn off the cameras. We unplug the phones. Repoters go home. We stop spending money. We stop voting. How quick they might change to get eyes on them again.

The good and bad we are seeing in the govenment is one end of another spectrum. It remains at it is as long as we continue applying resistance, but if we let it sway instead of roping onto the collective aggression... if we allow the natural phases...

Consider too, how the reality of nature is responding. Nature cannot speak to us directly, but here we have a reminder in the form of a virus- to stay put, rest, recover... but we keep going...

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OP, absorbing this response, came with some heavy questions; "What is good and bad but illusions of the self?" "Why does knowing the intricacies not give me power or peace?" "Instead it just feels as though we will never reach the only understanding. The same things that separate us literally keep us together..." "Why does it feel like a wheel?" "Why can't we get passed this?" 

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The wheel seems to be exactly what everyone is trying to break out of. And whether we know it or not, it's cracking open as [you read this]. Since we don't know what it looks like to break and rebuild that cycle - and were taught to fear the alternatives - we keep going through it by resisting it. Yelling at it to change and then go to their voting booth and pick from their chosen few. Misdirected energy.

We trust others to take our worries so we can be left with peace but they've been casting us aside for their pockets. I don't feel I can trust the people in power. And we continue, just to fight each other while they do what they please, acting as though they represent us. Surrender of Power.

How do we as individuals come to trust each other when we hear about fraudulent voting, and passing bills with secret code embedded into them which contain their true intention- when we have very limited accessibility to politicians, and an overabundance of speculation/conspiracy. Absence of faith.

Part of the issue is we haven't accepted that our thoughts in our mind dont have to influence the peace in our hearts. Too often we respond to our emotions with action, when its apparent to me this is a time for global reflection.  Fear Response.

Remember the wheel is just made of a special arrangement of atoms. If a thousand people stood front to back in a circle and you pushed the person in front of you, eventually the guy behind you pushes you. We can't get passed it because we're all staying in line and the leaders prostrate themselves in the center, too arrogant to give direction. Idolization.

The thing is... how do we know the guy on TV is the guy in the center? How do we know he's not in line pushing whoever is ahead of him, causing us to fall over each other- while someone out of the spotlight demands him to do so. Recognition of Truth (or stripping away of lies; painful experience)

Ask yourself, not of the greater cycle that encapsulates everything, but what smaller, seemingly insignificant cycles do you perform which keep you in the line? What patterns do you act on with the promise of bringing peace when it only becomes a repeating mechanical response that must feed itself? 

Another thing to ponder: similar patterns of thought.. Things that are almost Narrating our lives - havent you been told your whole life that the world was going to end soon? How do you think that effects your decision making? How does that effect the global psyche? How much of your being makes decisions with that idea as a concept?

How many times every day you ask yourself 'whats the point?' when you ponder your dreams and desires. How many times have we considered suicide, excessive drugs/sex/food/entertainment? and How many times have we acted on it? Any of these things could be done out of the idea that theres not enough time to take it all in, that there's not enough love to find your place. For some of us, there is no hope; we fall between clinging to consumption and ecstacy and extracting ourselves completely. 

We wait for Justice, we wait for those in power to make it right, we wait and yell from our tiny squares and the longer we wait the closer 'the end' gets. And we have to find peace before we End right? Because if we dont, who knows if we carry it on. We're all speculating. Were all afraid; and whatever 'Peace' might be, I can't continue to believe its what I've been taught. If there is anywhere to start, it is understanding, and to put practice into observing ourselves. Watch the reaction instead of becoming it. View it as if from a screen for a moment instead of immediately identifying with it.

If we lean into a more metaphysical concept, it could all be something of a global emotional/cognitive shift. The discord you are feeling, that many are feeling, seemingly without reason, is just the veils between us thinning. Eventually the most powerful person in the world will feel the pain of the most broken - because the veils shrouding the connection of our hearts are breaking away - There will come an understanding that no one can be at peace until were all at peace; with ourselves, and that which we hate.