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There is nothing good, nothing bad.

It is the truth that there is no good, no bad.

That nothing is right, nothing is wrong.

Everything is as it is; all condemnation, division, is futile.

But this saying is dangerous for you, and this will be too much for you1x

You cannot understand it; or you will misunderstand it,

Or you will have your own interpretation of it.

If I say there is nothing good, nothing bad, you will think that now whatsoever you have been thinking of up to now as bad, there is no need to think of it as such.

So it will become a license for you and you will start double thinking.

You will think that for yourself there is nothing good, nothing bad, but for others you will not allow the same.

If you allow the same for others also, then you have understood; then it is not a license,

It is a freedom.

But the mind must be one; there should not be double standards.

Everyone is just like everyone else.

So the same desires that hover around you, hover around everyone else too1x

You can say that an individual has the right to choose what to do.

But does this apply to everyone?

If you are living alone there is no question of rules,

Because of your living with others, rules have to be followed.

All of the problem will be there because you are the measure of all things.

If you are an employer, it is the best advantage to you not to pay but to work.

If you are an employee, it is the dream to you not to work but to get pay.

So if you criticize others, you must apply that same criticism to you,

Then the criticism is surgery for all of us.

But when you try to make other small, and to make yourself big,

Then the criticism is murder1x

Why do I say that there is nothing good and nothing bad?

Because goodness and badness are interpretations, they are not reality.

If there is a flower outside in the garden, you can call it beautiful and somebody else can call it ugly. But the flower is neither.

The flower exists there as it is in its authenticity, and it is not bothered about your interpretations. But to you it is either beautiful or not.

That beauty and ugliness is interpretation, not reality1x

It is your mind which says that it is beautiful or ugly.

The flower will not be affected by it, but you will be.

If you say that it is beautiful, your behavior will be one of kind;

If you say that it is ugly, your behavior will be different.

And you will be affected by your interpretation.

All over the world everyone has searched for happiness and pleasure.

There is no one who is not hankering after happiness and pleasure.

Everybody is hankering after the bliss in everyone's way.

Anything that hinders, there will be conflicts, fightings, wars, and revolutions.

Actually, the good and the bad are your choice1x

There is nothing to choose.

Everything is accepted.

If you can accept it in its totality, you are in peace.

By Sang-Bong Lee, Ph.D.
Philosopher & Poet

All rights reserved and copyrighted 2000. Reprinted by permission of Sang-Bong Lee.

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