What can we do about the darkness we see growing all around us?
The reflexive and mechanical egoic mind, and its cultures, are a state.
The source of 10,000 things—selfishness, confusion, and endless conflicts.
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 4th century BCE).
These two sides of the same coin, personal ego and civilization, grew bigger and evolved together.
Entangled intelligence–insight and compassion are different states.
Like turning on the lights in a dark room,
the state of the mind must change to experience intelligence–insight and compassion.
Surrounded in light, free from habit and self‑imposed darkness, a different mind acts.
The first step is the last, and only step necessary: ‘turning on the light.’
Darkness cannot do this, no matter how hard it tries.
The hardest lesson to learn.
This inner light reveals and frees entangled intelligence and compassion.
This we call insight and wisdom.
Doing the right thing.
Turn on the light and everything—reality—changes.
Remain in the dark state of the mind, ego, knowledge and culture, and nothing changes.
Content, or reality, is relative to which state is active.
True creativity and right action arise spontaneously when light is shared with others.
This changes, and completely, content, reality and action.
What, then, can we do about the darkness we see growing all around us?
Turn on the light.
To the ancients, emptiness or silence, the absence of darkness, meant turning on the lights. First things first.
Simple.
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