The true bad guys

If current events show us anything, it’s that our simple narratives about good and bad no longer apply.

Before those answers were taught to us by the culture we grew up in, they didn’t exist.

Perhaps now that these cultural answers are more fluid and change more often, we can see how arbitrary and untrue they are.

Perhaps we can more easily question where our current beliefs about right and wrong come from and why we believe a story we were told.

Perhaps we can look deeper and notice that all beliefs we have about other humans, nature, and ourselves were learned.

Perhaps we can collectively see that since your wrong is my right and your right is my wrong, finding such a thing a the real bad guys is always going to be … problematic.

Perhaps we could see that there are no answers to be found at this level because we have created these divisions, conflicts, and battles in our thinking.

We invented them, believed them, and live them.

Nonduality through direct inquiry does the exact opposite by questioning everything we believe about reality.

And by finding out whether there even is a separate someone who can stand apart from the world and point out the true bad guys.

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