Good and evil [7/9] – Unbinding of good is easier than that of evil

 

The ego exchanges the abode of identification with evil for the abode of identification with good because the latter gives it a greater sense of expansion. Sooner or later the aspirant perceives the new house to be no less of a limitation. Then he finds that the process of breaking through it is less difficult than the process of breaking through the former abode of identification with evil.

The difficulty concerning the abode of evil is not so much in perceiving that it is a limitation but in actually dismantling it after arriving at such a perception.

The difficulty concerning the abode of good is not so much in dismantling it as in perceiving that it is, in fact, a limitation.

It is important to note that the good binds as much as the evil, though the binding of the good can be more easily undone after it is perceived as being a limitation.

 -Extracted from “Discourses”, 7th Ed, p65

 

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