There is no good, there is no bad​

by M.C. ESCHER - Dutch graphic artist (1898-1972)

The natural law and order of this world is not “for” or “against.”
Fundamentally, there is nothing that either threatens us or promotes our point of view.
The four seasons occur free from anyone’s demand or vote.
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons.
There is a day; there is a night.
There is darkness at night & light during the day, and no one has to turn a switch on & off.
There are a natural law and order that allows us to survive and that is basically good, good in that it is there and it works and it is efficient.
This is the basic law and order in the universe.
We should appreciate what we have.
Without it, we would be in a total predicament.
If we didn’t have sunlight, we wouldn’t have any vegetation, we wouldn’t have any crops, and we couldn’t cook a meal.
So basic goodness is good because it is so basic, so fundamental.
It is natural & it works, and therefore it is good, rather than being good as opposed to bad.
The same principle applies to our makeup as human beings.
​We have passion, aggression, and ignorance.
That is, we cultivate our friends and we ward off our enemies and we are occasionally indifferent.
Those tendencies are not shortcomings.
​They are part of our natural elegance.

​- ​ Jai Sri Krishna -

We human beings are basically good. We have every faculty we need so we don’t have to fight with the world. Isn't true? We cannot complain that we have eyes, ears, a nose, and a mouth. We cannot redesign our physiological system, and for that matter, we cannot redesign our state of mind. Basic goodness is what we have, what we are provided with. It is the natural situation that we have inherited from birth onwards. We should feel that it is wonderful to be in this world. How wonderful it is to see red and yellow, blue and green, purple and black! All of these colors are provided for us. We feel hot and cold; we taste sweet and sour. We have these sensations, and we deserve them. They are good. So the first step in realizing basic goodness is to appreciate what we have. But then we should look further and more precisely at what we are, where we are, who we are when we are, and how we are as human beings so that we can take possession of our basic goodness. It is not really a possession, but nonetheless, we deserve it.

- Sivkishen Ji -

​You see this often represented in the Ying Yang sign.
Note the opposites that together form the whole: 

• The visible and invisible part of the tree.
• Water and fire.
• ​The sun and the moon.
• Male and female.

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