If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil (Baruch Spinoza)
Would You
like to comment on this?
My son, you have chosen a very special quote,
not easily to understand for man with his strong opinion of white and black, of
good and evil, of what is wrong and what is right. But let one hear what one
can hear.
An animal and plant live without the concept of
good and evil. When a gazelle is being knocked down by a lion and his last
minutes are there, he does not think the lion is the devil, or I'm good and
that lion is evil. Even when the gazelle could think, she would not think it,
but she would know that this is it, this is part of life, without judgment and
without confusion, only a moment of fear of death but in a large resignation,
with an unconditional acceptance.
And should this not apply to man as well?
Spinoza was thinking, thinking through and
free-thinking, independently of moral and religious concepts and came so to
this great realization.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form
no conception of good and evil
The man who is free, and who looks in great
freedom to life, will say yes to everything for it is as it is, there will be
complete acceptance and there will be no judgment. The concepts of good and
evil have become empty words. Spinoza has expressed it well.
How can this be said with so much crime? And with what men does to each other? And the ape of God, what about him? That good and evil not count makes certainly no sense, ordinary men will say. Evil acts must be condemned otherwise we are no longer in an ordered society, then we can stop all together. And ordinary people are so right. But this is not the point.
What is it all about?
Not about a practical society with laws and
morals.It is about the truth, about the perspective of the spiritual world, who sees what is really happening on Earth, who is looking behind the scenes of life and is perceiving completely different things than what is apparently happening on earth.
Behind the scenes it appears to be that:
-
a person who does
good, sometimes has other motives, or rather is only but choking the other
- someone who does
evil, is causing a lot of life experience for the other and unintentionally
is helping the other to evolve
- a malignant
disease eliminates weak individuals and creates a stronger species, among
men as well
- good things can
have bad consequences, and bad things can have good results.
In short, the backgrounds of life are showing
different things than man can observe in his bewilderment about the suffering
of that moment.
It's very zen, in order to let it all, to say
yes, to accept everything, and even saying at the worst experiences this is
what it is, what is there else to think about? I let the judgement to the
spiritual world.Spinoza is blessed.
My blessings
to you all
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