The Good and The Bad. Who Created This?

This life is full of paradoxes and one of them which we will explore today sits at the heart of our physical existence and thought.

The human brain has learnt to define things over the course of its evolution. It has identified many concepts and understood what to do and what not to do for its survival. That is the brain’s job and it does that very well. Bravo!

During this process of translations and definitions, the brain describes the arrival of “something” in the body as a feeling or a sensation. Due to an event, an action or another feeling. The brain calls whatever happens in the brain a “thought”. Our brain has defined its own workings as well. It is defining everything even when you are just looking at something and. while doing this, it is also identifying all these thoughts, sensations and feelings as pleasant or not pleasant. Good or not good. Purely based on the data it already has. Memory of what’s good and what's not good. Hence the world comes into existence. Our world.

All events in this world, in a way, happen on a cosmic level. We don’t really know what actually happens when we feel sad or happy. However, we define them to understand them based on our memory, conditioning and previous experience. This definition is what creates the paradox that we are investigating.

For example, a thought, action or sensation may be defined as a “good” happening by one person, but by another, the same could be defined as “bad”. We do this daily as we judge everything and every event. If we lose money because of an event, we define the event as bad. However, the money itself is not lost. Someone, somewhere made that money and for them this event which led to this is good. This is happening all the time in our lives.

It is that “good” we humans focus on all our lives. We try and find good in everything. At work, in love, in health and life. Good which was defined by memory and conditioning. We chase good so much, that it ends up becoming a personality which sits as another memory in our brain. All the good gets automatically amalgamated into a person which is our inspiration. We want to be just like them. We want to be always good. The brain carries this all the time. Just observe it yourself. Don’t you have a very clear what is good for you?

The paradox occurs here when by defining this “good” we of course define “bad” or the opposite of it. The issue occurs when our brains forget totally and completely that the bad also exists because we defined it. We chase the good. Because we have been told you. We want to become “the” good. We only want to experience good. But the bad is also defined by us and lives in this world.

By definition there wouldn’t be any good without bad – we create both of them when we define them. Hence we will experience both of them in life. However, we forget this and there is an eternal battle within our minds between bad and good.

We forget both bad and good exist. They don’t exist separately. They exist as a singular phenomenon. Created by our own brains!

This friction and fight between the good and bad is apparent in our physical beings. Whatever we are experiencing, if we think it’s not good, we want it to be good. We are chasing all the good and not accepting what is happening right now. The brain is trying to change your current state and trying to become better. Ignoring the reality of your current happenings and life. Hence not doing justice to your existence, which is here to experience life in the now. As YOU and I don’t know any other time or space apart from here and now.

By defining, hence giving meaning to, any phenomenon, we create duality in this world. Good and bad. This and that. This duality exists in this world and will always exist. However human memory hinges on all the good in the world and chases that. Never wanting bad in their life – a “bad” they created themselves.

The human brain goes into an eternal struggle to fix itself to be good, goes into thinking and more thinking hence ignoring YOUR presence. Hence ignoring life as it happens.

If you want good in this world; know that bad is also created by you and lives in this world. Understanding that in the world where the brain and body live (hence this person you think you are), there will always be duality and both good and bad happen. Accept that.

Understanding and accepting this will help the brain to liberate itself, feel free from thought and serve its purpose to be here, present, and alert for YOU! Accepting its own conditioning, the brain will free itself from the shackles of judgement and thinking.

By not defining anything, based on history, memory and conditioning, the brain becomes so free and in sync that it can give any meaning and definition it wants for a given experience.

It can see magic and “good” in everything. It can fall in love with everything. It submits to the beauty of life. It becomes one with life.