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“THE SELF AND ‘EVIL’”

“The Self” is neither “someone” that “I” become through effort, nor is it something achieved by refining “I”—such as through self-mastery or controlling the ego.

“The Self” is the pure existence that remains after the complete illusion of “I” has fallen away; in other words, “pure being” is simply “just being”—“I” is absolutely not necessary; even neither effort nor intention are required.

Thus, “The Self” is realized by awareness impersonally only through the inevitable surrender and dissolution of “I,” spontaneously when the falseness of “I” is illuminated by the clarity of the innermost stillness.

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Control breeds suppression; without a single exception, in whatever form it takes, it inevitably leads to an accumulation of dissatisfaction.

This eventually transforms into a massive store of energy that is bound to explode at some point.

Such attempts at control—wielded by the “I,” the human who unconsciously identify themselves to be “I”—have never once been effective in the history of humanity.

Not even once.

On the contrary, in accordance with natural law, such control has always resulted in an explosion of reactionary energy, thereby correcting the distortion it created.

Self-mastery, or the desire to control others and the world, is never a reflection of reality as it is; rather, it is merely a “resistance”—a form of distortion—born from the mind’s (ego’s) distorted cognition.

And this is accompanied by a stubborn insistence—an attachment—that this distorted cognition is the absolute truth.

This is the root of violence.

The root of violence that has been repeated throughout the ages and continues to be repeated today.

It is not because “evil” actually exists.

It begins with the “inevitability” of lacking the realization that phenomena arise simply due to immeasurable causes and conditions—“distorted cognition” as a manifestation of ignorance. Furthermore, it stems from the mind’s (ego’s) stubborn attachment to the illusion that causes can be pinpointed and controlled—an attachment born of an intense fear of the future.

In short, no matter the problem, it does not arise because there is a “bad person” involved, nor because a specific cause failed to be eliminated.

The raw reality is merely a transient phenomenon—impermanence itself—emerging from a complexity of interdependent causes and conditions that eludes “my” grasp. Yet, because the mind’s (ego’s) distorted cognition renders this fact invisible—or unacceptable—“I” unconsciously find itself reflexively resisting, driven by anxiety born of endless cycles of thought.

There is no such thing as guilt anywhere.

There is not even an individual present.

All that exists there is distorted cognition, thoughts, the anxiety and fear generated by those thoughts, the resulting attachment to control, and the natural reflexive self-defense reactions—such as unconscious justification of the self (the “I” one believes oneself to be) to protect—stemming from the firm belief that “I” am a real, substantial entity.

Ultimately, the “I” itself—as well as the mind (ego) and the “evil” one speaks of—never existed anywhere to begin with.

Moreover, beneath these unconscious self-defense reactions, there invariably lie unmet needs.

Hidden there is pain that has neither been embraced nor sublimated.

When this pain is clearly recognized as fact—without any judgment—through the clarity of “openness,” it signifies that the experience has been fully accepted just as it is.

This naturally initiates the release of energy that had been suppressed and unsublimated.

It means feeling the emotions one had previously held down, without any resistance whatsoever.

(This process unfolds naturally; since the clarity of “openness” is beyond the personal sense of the “self,” emotions are perceived merely as things that pass through and can be sublimated. However, when dealing with such unmet needs, the energy that has been suppressed can be immense, and one cannot entirely rule out the possibility of becoming overwhelmed. Therefore—especially when confronting it for the first time—it is recommended to connect with a trusted professional, such as a trauma specialist. In addition, in many cases where “I” harbor unmet needs without realizing it, they also struggle with issues such as explosive outbursts of anger triggered by certain events. Such reactions can be for them often in-apprehensible and thereby frequently feelings of sham or a sense of personal inadequacy. Furthermore, as long as “I” am able to control such outbursts of explosive anger, “I” often—frequently without realizing it—underestimate those who cannot as inferior, backed by an overestimation through misconception of “I”. Even these are nothing more than natural self-defense reactions, though. Most importantly, like any other phenomenon, this sort of thing is by no means proof that there is a person or the existence of evil.)

It is then that peace as pure being finally emerges naturally from within.

What becomes clear in that moment is… that even at the very inception of that suppression of emotions, no such thing as “evil” existed. what prompted it is simply an unconscious reaction based on the notion as distorted cognition by the “I” that is misconception of self that something was “evil” and had to be punished.

“All phenomena are non-self.” (OM 🙏)