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ML7172CAN2 - On good and evil
Malibu, California - 28 March 1971
Conversation with Alain Naudé 2
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Summary
Q: Do good and evil really exist or are they simply conditioned points of view?
Goodness is total order, not only outwardly but inwardly especially.
Is virtue the outcome of planning?
You cannot will to do good. Either you are good or not good; you cannot will goodness.
Will is the concentration of thought as resistance.
Are poisonous snakes, sharks and the appalling, frighteningly cruel things in nature evil?
The moment we assert that there is absolute evil, that very assertion is the denial of the good.
Goodness implies total abnegation of the self, because ‘the me’ is always separative.
Order means behaviour in freedom. Freedom means love, not pleasure. When one observes all this, one sees very clearly that there is a marvellous sense of absolute order.