Many
people misunderstood about the term of ‘there is no good and there is
no bad’. They misuse this term and do whatever they want to satisfy
their cravings and moods.
The truth is the essence of everything
including food, plants, living beings, non living beings, money, drugs,
alcohol, love, passions or anything that the mind can perceives, that
they are neither good nor bad in nature because these existences have no
qualities and intentions to be good or bad.
They exist because there is a reason for them to exist. Such like germs are here to create illness and decompose the dead body.
For
example knife. It is invented as a convenient tool to help daily life
more easy. It has no intention to do good or bad. It is the intention of
the being and its ego that uses the knife as a convenient tool or as a
weapon to hurt another being.
Other examples like drugs and alcohols.
They exist for a reason in the medical field. But the intention of the
being leads to the misuse of drugs and alcohols are causing so much
unhappy consequences.
The craving and addiction for alcohols and
to get high (‘stoned’) by using drugs (soft or hard) is so powerful to
make a person loses its self control, morality and sanity to think right
and do right. They will ignore or neglect their responsibilities
towards themselves, their family and friends, and the society in life.
Most
of the alcohols and drugs addicts disconnect themselves from their
responsibilities towards themselves and others. Sometimes he would
steal, lie or does anything at all to get his craving satisfied when the
craving is so intense.
Unless a person’s clarity, morality and
responsibility is not affected at all by the consumption of alcohols and
drugs, (like eating rice, fruit and vegetables and drinking water) and
if he’s not over powered or influenced by the alcohols and drugs, then
there’s nothing wrong with alcohols and drugs.
For how many times
a person wake up in the morning feeling sick and lazy due to
consumption of alcohols or taking drugs on the previous night, and not
willingly to go to work or not able to perform their daily
responsibilities?
How can the parents take care of their children after taking drugs or alcohol?
The
truth is many people did not realize that they are under the influence
of these possessions and it is damaging their personality, health,
clarity, self control and relationships with others in a long term
period of time.
People who practice Yoga and meditation don’t
need to take drugs to help them to relax and should not be craving for
the sensation from taking drugs (to runaway from the worldly tensions
and troubles temporarily) when the teaching of Yoga is to relax the body
and mind through yoga practices and meditation, and not by running away
from problems but to confront the problems, and also to work on
minimizing and controlling of our cravings for sensual pleasure.
Because
by using drug to get a momentary/temporary state of peacefulness or
cutting off from the senses, such as anesthetic will numb our senses and
take away the feeling of pain for a short while for surgery, but it is
not the end of our journey of suffering or unhappiness because we will
have to come back from that momentary ‘peacefulness’ as soon as the
effect of the drug is gone.
We still have to confront our accumulated karmas
and continue our journey of life existences again and again in whatever
form, to finish up/burn off or to consume and payback our past karma
(both good and bad) created by our own thoughts, actions and speech.
And it is so dangerous when a person is under the effect of drugs, he doesn’t
have self control over his own actions or what others can do to him. We
might do something so bad even without our awareness of it. Usually we
can not recall any memory from the time when we were being given
anesthetic.
We might cause injury to ourselves or to other people
when we don’t know what is going on when we are under the influence of
drugs.
Certainly this is not the state of meditation, because in
the state of meditation, we will have full awareness of what we are
doing and have full control of ourselves even though we rise above the
body consciousness and its surrounding.
And so what is so great about being high then? Just for temporary sensual enjoyment but risking the clarity of our mind? It doesn’t worth well.
Most
of the drug addicts are trapped in the craving desire of getting the
sensation from taking drugs although it is harming their well-being. And
it didn’t help them to get rid of ignorance and attain wisdom (true and never-ending peacefulness).
As
long as there is an idea of running away from unhappiness/suffering or
longing for happiness, we won’t be able to attain what is called self
realization or enlightenment (state of infinite peacefulness) even if we
do not take drugs and doing a lot of practice (Tapas) because we are
still trapped in the desire of want and don’t want.
Some people
complain that to observe the practice and the disciplines (austerity) is
a very hard thing to do. It is not middle path, so say some people.
Actually
it is their ego and mind are rejecting the rules, and the restrain of
conducts that are really irritating them because it’s against what they
like to do and make them do what they don’t like to do.
When a
person is under the influence of the desire of cravings, the ego will
try to avoid any talks that is contradict with its desire and just want
to think of whatever reason that can back him up to satisfy his desire
and to prove that he is right.
It is the ignorance and greed that transform so many things into evil and have bad reputation even though in their original essence, they are neutral and have neither qualities nor intentions of good and evil, such
as money and love relationships.
Money doesn’t hurt people, relationship doesn’t
bring suffering. It is when the intention of a person is lustful,
greedy, immoral, and lack of self control, then money and relationship
will bring painful sorrow and suffering to him and others.
When a
person with pure intention that is loving, content, selfless and have
self control, then money and relationships only bring joy and happiness
to him and others.
Every being, mobile or immobile, has neither
pure goodness nor pure badness in it. Definitely we have no rights to
judge anybody and anything, as well as to judge our own self, because in
every living being, there is some goodness and some badness in them.
Only
by the practice of self restrain, purification, concentration and
meditation, we can truly regain the state of pure consciousness where
all the karma are burnt off and we stopped generating new karma by renunciation from fruit of actions.
There
is no more karma left for us to be reborn repeatedly and continue being
trapped in ignorance when we are ‘non-action’ in actions. We do not
generate either good or bad karma in this understanding of detachment
from the fruit of action.
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