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Blog on Dzog
On My Mind, February 6, 2010
Doing Battle
Here we are again, fighting the age-old battle between good and evil. How we love the idea that there are really and truly evil people in the world that the good guys have to overpower with their superior weapons and expertise and mental agility.
Actually, every bad guy thinks he’s a good guy and visa versa. Every good guy thinks he has to be a bad guy to kill off or scare off the bad guys who think they are good guys fighting some just cause or another.
Whew! Gets exhausting just trying to keep track.
Fighting never produces the desired result: the end to fighting. It always produces more fighting. Ending fighting never produces the desired result either. It always precludes the idea that more fighting must ensue. The battlers simply unite and aim at some other ‘enemy’ who doesn’t agree with them about something they hold dear.
Every woman loves a bad boy. Why? Because every bad boy ‘thinks’ he’s a good guy, posturing to scare off the ‘real’ bad guys who are threatening to abscond with the desirable sweetie. The desirable sweetie, in the vision, sits back and does her nails (sharpening them, in reality, to use on the real bad guys who have blithely slipped by the good guys who are busy flexing their muscles and thumping their chests).
In battles between good and evil, there is always a promise of some kind of pure and excellent prize: virgins, if you’re Moslim; a city of gold if you’re Christian or Pure Land Buddhist, spiritual super powers if you’re Hindi or Baptist, and so on. In fact, some of those fighting the good fight believe they ‘should’ already own or ‘do’ already possess the prize that they are after, (And sometimes they actually get caught: Bernie Madoff and his City of Gold; James Ray and his Superpower Sweat Lodge). But, most of the time, they just stick it in the bank while they stick it to the real world. I don’t see any hungry bankers, do you?
What do I have to say to the Battle between good and evil? Ho Hum. You’ll never win. You’ll always lose, no matter which side you ‘think’ you’re on.
It’s the battle itself that wins. Always.
Om mani Padme Hum
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