self-focusers,
A quote you won't find in LILA :
"What is Right, Phaedrus, and what is Wrong, we need to
ask ourselves that - ALL THE TIME."
And not only that, we as human beings are condemmed to
take a stand, one way or another. To have an amoral or
indifferent attitude is demeaning to us as human beings.
Sure that choice is also available, but then are there no
consequences for every choice made? The easiest thing we
can do is to pretend that we have no choice anyway or to
say that its best to let nature take its course, and that
its all a cosmic dance, and we are only puppets in this
interplay between DQ and SQ..or this thing or that thing is
just an illusion. Or the 'holier than thou' attitude that
on reaching a certain 'level' of enlightenment all these
issues like morals, free will, self etc are mere paradoxes
cojured up by lower minds that have no idea that we are all
one and the same and that what we call 'self' is only an
illusion. Or that it is all destiny. Or that we can have
no real choice, because we don't have the freedom to choose
- its all taken care of by either Dynamic Quality or Static
Quality ! Or that its all a language or a syntax problem.
So take the path of least risk - convince yourself that
you have no choice - that there is no choice to make - for
then you are responsible for nothing because you made no
choice, Right ?
Or take up meditation. There again you will find exquisite
bliss and peace where all these questions dissolve and you
will be bothered no more - ignore everything - ignorance
is bliss. The world is just perfect the way it is - for
in everything there is unity - you just experienced it,
didn't you ? And in the unity of everything, nothing can
be Right or Wrong, can it ? Enlightenment !
There are thousands and thousands of excuses that we can
think of to justify and support an amoral attitude. And
you know why ? Because to take a stand is a frightening
affair since there is NOTHING in this world or the
universe or even beyond it that can assure oneself that
what one chooses to do is the Right thing. One is all
alone here - NO ONE else can actually tell oneself Right
from Wrong.
And to take a stand also means to account for the possi-
bility that one could be wrong - even in not making a
choice. And to make a wrong choice will have its con-
sequences. But these consequences will not be immediate
-these will take a long long time to manifest physically.
The most likely consequence of a wrong choice is that
we will actually feel rewarded for our choice ! We will
congratulate ourselves for having made the Right move !
Nature is not interested in churning out machines where
every human action will have an immediate physical
moral reaction. So we cant even know immidiately that we
made a wrong choice! But something will have changed.
What will have changed is our ABILITY, our POWER to
choose Right from wrong, it will have DEPLETED.
And so the next choice will then MORE LIKELY to be a
wrong one, which will then drain our power further..
till we have no more of it left...and we end up making
all the wrong choices. Rather we will have forfieted
all our choices - a sitting duck - a slave of our
circumstances. We will have turned into a machine.
So ask yourself and yourself alone this:
Can we say then that we have a choice of no choice ?
Can there be choice without freedom ?
Can there be a Right or Wrong without choice ?
Can there be choice without consequences and
responsibility ?
Can there be responsibility without a self who is
responsible ?
What comes first ? A chicken or an egg ?
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