painting with lifeWed, Sep 19, 2007 Curious discussion. I don't find it easier to love or to hate. I don't find it easier to create or destroy. There exists destructive love and creative hate; or better said: creative intention and destructive intention. Or even better classified: good intention and evil intention. These two classifications, good and evil, follow us or guide us through every conscious decision we make. Whatever intention underlies these decisions belongs wholly to our consciousness. In the moment of decision, we can intend to be good, or intend to be evil, but that decision to be good or evil is ours.
No one is ever going to take that away from me. No matter where I end up in life (with the exception of being brain dead), I will still have the ability to decide for the sake of goodness or the sake of evil. I beseech anyone to try to take it away.
Every time we make the decision to act, we are rebounding absorbed energy. According to physical laws, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred. In this physical way, good and bad energy must inherently be balanced.
But is the energy of human intention truly quantifiable? Friction, heat, nuclear, etc. energy can all be measured in literal quantifiable ways. The energy of human intention is abstruse, how do you quantify it? Psychologists have tried for ages to capture the human mind in a quantifiable way, and we still have very little understanding of it.
There is something else in play here. There is more intention for joyful existence than a suffering one. The inertia of human energy is towards survival. Survival cannot escape being handcuffed to good intention (even if it may be pulling bad intention along behind it). The metaphor of good intention leading us while dragging bad intention behind us fits with joyful existence.
As long as good intention leads us to our decisions, we will echo good energy, and thusly propagate joy while convalescing suffering. It is our duty to follow this mantra to ensure joyful survival of the species regardless of whether something is more or less difficult.
Curious discussion. I don't find it easier to love or to hate. I don't find it easier to create or destroy. There exists destructive love and creative hate; or better said: creative intention and destructive intention. Or even better classified: good intention and evil intention. These two classifications, good and evil, follow us or guide us through every conscious decision we make. Whatever intention underlies these decisions belongs wholly to our consciousness. In the moment of decision, we can intend to be good, or intend to be evil, but that decision to be good or evil is ours.
No one is ever going to take that away from me. No matter where I end up in life (with the exception of being brain dead), I will still have the ability to decide for the sake of goodness or the sake of evil. I beseech anyone to try to take it away.
Every time we make the decision to act, we are rebounding absorbed energy. According to physical laws, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred. In this physical way, good and bad energy must inherently be balanced.
But is the energy of human intention truly quantifiable? Friction, heat, nuclear, etc. energy can all be measured in literal quantifiable ways. The energy of human intention is abstruse, how do you quantify it? Psychologists have tried for ages to capture the human mind in a quantifiable way, and we still have very little understanding of it.
There is something else in play here. There is more intention for joyful existence than a suffering one. The inertia of human energy is towards survival. Survival cannot escape being handcuffed to good intention (even if it may be pulling bad intention along behind it). The metaphor of good intention leading us while dragging bad intention behind us fits with joyful existence.
As long as good intention leads us to our decisions, we will echo good energy, and thusly propagate joy while convalescing suffering. It is our duty to follow this mantra to ensure joyful survival of the species regardless of whether something is more or less difficult.
Our world mirrored upon itself sure looks joyful.