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  • Part of Buddhism is reaching an understanding on the essential relationship between good and evil, light and dark, etc. The two sides of all duality are complimentary and necessary. Happiness cannot be understood without sadness as a reference or background to contrast and compare.

    However, an even greater understanding is the unified nature of duality, that they are both the same and different at the same time. One example is atoms, the structure and composition of atoms that makeup all material is consistent even though the material they comprise are seemingly different.

    With this in mind, the idea that one could ‘solve the worlds problems’ becomes unnecessary. Evil will never overcome good, light will never overcome dark. The two are actually unified and inseparable. In Christianity, this message is often lost but if you look closely, its there:

    Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

    In my personal journey into eastern philosophy, focusing on Buddhism, Taoism and Zen, I’ve relied heavily on Alan Watts audio lectures. I’ve listened to most of his work several times over and I find it the best way to get a high-level understanding of these topics which has then led me to dive deeper into translated versions of older philosophical texts.

    You can find a collection of Alan Watts’ lectures here, they are a treasure of humanity: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jdP5I__aKoDyMx7h4Y6B2J1ztTMjirhO

    Namaste my friend, I pay respect to the god head present in you ☮