Lightness and Darkness~

“God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.”
― Albert Einstein

Evil is something that has no ontological status, evil as a thing in itself is not a thing. It is the absence of good, a privation of good, not a thing in itself. Therefore, it does not exist. Even good does not exist. At an aphorism, there is no such thing as good and evil in the universe. Everything is just is. It is a fleeting conception that concocts reality. Good and evil is based on a single perception, knowledge and judgment.

Hence, the perception of good and evil lies on the one cognizant to it. If you perceive something as good, then technically, it is good. Nevertheless, if you perceive something as evil, then it is evil. It is a choice, however, whether you desire to preempt your own perception of reality. Rather, you can decide to escalate that perception to formulate another perception of good and evil.

Good and evil is nothing but a judgment. To acknowledge something better than or worse than is, is nothing but a judgment. Evil is something in subordinate cogitative to something better. Hence, a little good is considered evil when assimilated with a preeminent good. When there is no judgment, therefore, there is no cogitation of something being better or worse than another. Everything is established equally as it is. Judgment preempts separation of one thing from another whereas non-judgment sees the oneness and equality of all things.

Nevertheless, in order to define what is, we have to know first what it is not. As light and darkness define each other while good and evil also defines each other. Thus, we cannot define the quality and quantity of a thing unless we juxtapose it to a different degree of quality and quantity of nothing but itself. What can be considered good or evil in the existence of evil in goodness is whether it appeases the exigency of all or not. It is all, but a perception. What you perceive is then what you affirm.

Perhaps that’s the reason why I couldn’t stop myself to scrutinize and wonder about the existence of evil. I even doubt myself as unreal, because I am, we, in nature are sinners. It sounds cliché, but definitely something to ponder on. Just because, I acknowledge that I am sinner, it does not follow that I am an evil. Believe me. Yesterday, I was bitter. But now I am moving on. I am moving forward. I may have let go of those good choices in life, but that doesn’t mean I should blubber about them. It is not on how much and how often you’ve been hurt, it is just about creating the good choices, or even the best choices in life. Considering that they are all for free, there is nothing distressful.