Where do you draw the line between what is best and what isn’t
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The “best” in this case would be something that leads to more qualities of pure harmony. It shows up physically and metaphysically as the beautiful proportions of yin and yang, which hearken back to the original purify of God at the foundation of creation.
In mundane things, there isn’t usually a “best” thing. It’s usually good or less bad lol
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Thanks lol
Sorry for the heavy direction of the conversation. Whenever Tao projects get made, it tends to weigh heavy on my heart and mind. I don’t even need to have a visual confirmation that it happened, some part of me just knows it and is pained by it because there is enthusiasm for a new ability or experience but no ownership of the process or deference to those who have gone before . --Under traditional standards, the sort of thing would have been considered worse than Dharma Theft (a grievous sin unto itself). I wish people would just leave it alone.
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Anyways… on to lighter things
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Oh my gawd. This is the hardest question people have been working on for millenia.
But if no ultimate good exists how would we recognize evil?
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I’ve been thinking something like this. It’s as if people automatically feel a need to become in ultimate control if they don’t feel they can trust the ultimate power to take care of them. Or there’s fatalism.
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Watch out for Bias I guess.
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It’s good to be balanced…
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Well let me ask you this then:
Does evil exist for you?
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What do you mean?
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Yep, but good will always have greater ultimate power.
I dunno… I was just making a general statement this time lol
—“if no ultimate good exists how would we recognize evil?”, you responded that we should watch out for bias.
You can avoid bias by being balanced… in my own mind, I was seeing that as a way of hearkening back to the idea of harmony that I mentioned earlier. --Nothing that I wrote was without an empirical basis. So I guess I was making a bit of a jibe that watching out for bias would eventually get back to what I was saying earlier.
But, regardless, balance is always good, and bias is good to avoid 
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I see
Do you have any experiences related to/working with Deities?
Would you say they represent or embody this harmony you are talking about?
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I’ve had limited experience with deities.
For most of my years, since I had no tangible experiences with them I assumed that they either didn’t exist or, as the Epicureans had concluded, they didn’t care.
So most of my own understanding was just from energy dynamics lol.
But, now that I’ve worked with some NFTs related to deities, I would say definitely. Deities reside in a portion of reality which can (usually) be regarded as heavenly. As a result, they embody harmony to a greater degree than what we usually see on earth—with factors like longevity and power that support this idea.
The ultimate harmony would be beyond determinate forms, though. So, in my mind, the abstract understanding of God that we find in the concept of Brahman or for Abrahamic traditions or the concept of the Great Dao itself would probably most completely exemplify the harmony.
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Always something better around the corner.
Never fixed, always evolving.
For the better.
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So, they wouldn’t help me if I were to ask for greater power than that of most humans solely for my own selfish purposes because this implies that my intention does not align with God’s harmony, correct?
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Yes/No.
I had mentioned that only the concepts of Brahman, the Abrahamic God, or the Great Dao seemed to align with the greatest harmony (to me)—since they aren’t attached to any specific form.
Other deities have their own forms and personalities. They are greater than humans but not the greatest in all existence. They can do what they want in accord with their own interests.
Having an identity/self means that they have the same general freedom that humans have (greater, in some senses). Since they have greater overall power and harmony, they can also cause greater harms if they so choose. It would depend on their temperament and the circumstances they are working with.
For example, when people grow in their own energetics, there is more active energy in the whole energy body. They can express this with love and compassion. But they could also express it with malice and destructiveness. The person, in order to have the energy in the first place, would need to have greater overall harmony. But they can apply it as their disposition permits.
In general, more destructive applications of energy tend to harm the doer of the deed as much as their target. So gods are less likely to do things like that. But, they will also have a greater ability to recover. So, depending on their temperament, many things can happen.
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It’s funny you say this because either I am misrepresenting what little I read about this deities, or people are fooling themselves.
But Almost Every. Single. Time. I see “this Deity is Truth”
How can every Deity be Truth while having different personalities, I don’t know. But it surely makes me be less interested in them.
So they are part of God’s harmony but they aren’t the Totality of it?
I don’t see how this Deities are “Gods” then. They are just more conscious and more powerful beings than us but essentially the same thing as us, would you agree or disagree?
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Even according to the Bible thumpers lol:
Psalm 82:6 “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”
They are essentially the same. Quite a few pagan traditions involve the idea that we are direct descendants of the gods as well.
–The gods are like our older, wiser, more powerful family members/siblings/friends
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Right but that is referring to our Structure.
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Created in the image of God
Possessed of a Soul/Purusha which, in principle, is exactly like God except for the fact that it is linked more intensely to a local portion of matter.
We do share the most fundamental structures in common with the gods.
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