Being Present, Purpose, and the cycle of Good and Evil.

We can experience thoughts without consciously thinking, and feel emotions without consciously trying. Often, we mistake our thoughts and emotions as real, even though they exist only in our minds. This can have positive or negative effects. Positive thoughts generate a sense of goodness, while negative thoughts generate negativity. One example, anxiety, is where we stress and worry about thoughts in our minds as if they are real, leading us to react and feel as if those thoughts are actually happening right now.

Spontaneous thoughts and effortless emotions can unknowingly shape our being without our conscious awareness, representing external influences that exert control over us. Initially, acknowledge the separation between yourself and your thoughts. Then, purposefully cultivate your thoughts to generate intentional emotions and deliberately shape your identity. Assigning meaning and purpose to your thoughts helps you identify and resist external influences attempting to manipulate them. Creating a distinction between yourself and external influence allows you to discover your genuine thoughts and embody your true self. Being aligned with your true self enables full presence, where thoughts simply exist without unnecessary interpretations, allowing emotions to reflect what is reality. Your internal and external experiences harmoniously occur in the present moment, dissolving the concept of "you" and eliminating ego. You become the present. This is the starting and ending point of all creation. The liberated true mind manifests itself boundlessly. Consistently attaining this state signifies the end of "your" life and the beginning of reality, opening up infinite possibilities.

From that point it becomes your responsibility to do good and be good and avoid evil. Good and evil are interdependent, but when considering good and evil, view them beyond moral concepts. "Good" represents genuine purpose, propelling the present moment forward, while "evil" remains confined to the past, bound by its actions and lack of purpose. Without genuine goodness, purpose ceases to exist, leading to a state that can be considered evil or at least not "good." The universe becomes void, and the present is lost, trapping everything in the past with no emergence of novelty.

Purposeful movement necessitates intention. Movement is driven by purpose, whether known or unknown by what is moved. The same principle applies to goodness—actively pursuing good actions and values. Evil, in contrast, arises from inertia, idleness, and neglect, lacking purpose and direction. Evil then gives way to chaos. Chaos emerges from entities that choose not to be, to do, or become anything purposefully. Deliberately creating chaos with purpose is flawed as chaos lacks inherent purpose. Those who seek chaos only pursue chaos. Even those seeking to create something good from their chaos must undo their own chaos and evil, as their ultimate goal is goodness. Embracing evil requires reversing it to become good. If someone who once embraced evil chooses goodness, they must confront and rectify their past evil actions. The very creation they sought will be destroyed, returning them to their moment of first engagement in evil. This cyclic interplay of good and evil becomes inescapable unless everything becomes good, possessing genuine purpose.